Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0Sylvan Lake Municipal Library is Sylvan Lake’s public library
Sylvan Lake Municipal Library has one location for the 14,816 people it serves. In 2022 it lent 5.4 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
C+Civic life#463 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Sylvan Lake’s civic life grade weighs
With a C+, Sylvan Lake ranks #463 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Sylvan Lake: 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.
Sylvan Lake mailing addresses hold 19 registered charities
That is 1.1 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Alberta at 37.1% in 2023, somewhere between 35.1% and 39.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 100 visits a day
The year 2022 at Sylvan Lake Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Sylvan Lake’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Sylvan Lake.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Per person served. The library sets its own service population, and the rates here divide by it rather than by Sylvan Lake’s census count.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sylvan Lake
Does Sylvan Lake have a public library?
Yes: Sylvan Lake Municipal Library.
How busy is Sylvan Lake Municipal Library?
For 2022 it reported 80,742 loans and 36,380 in-person visits.
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).