Photo: awmcphee · CC BY-SA 4.0Swan Hills Library lends 2.4 items per person served, fewer than 89% of Alberta’s town libraries
Swan Hills Library serves 1,301 people from a single building. Visits ran to 3.5 per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
B+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringSwan Hills’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Swan Hills grades B+. All three civic life inputs exist for Swan Hills: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
One registered charity gives a Swan Hills mailing address
That is 0.7 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 12 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Swan Hills Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Swan Hills
Does Swan Hills have a public library?
No public library is mapped in Swan Hills or within 60 km.
How busy is Swan Hills Library?
People made 4,513 visits in person and borrowed 3,121 items in 2022.
Library statistics: Alberta public library statistics, 2022. Library locations: © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL) and Statistics Canada, Open Database of Cultural and Art Facilities (2020). Charities: Canada Revenue Agency, List of charities (2024), charitable organizations only.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).