Photo: Jason Woodhead · CC BY 4.0At 11.1 visits per person served, Wandering River Public Library is busier than 96% of Alberta’s town libraries
Wandering River Public Library has one location for the 8,428 people it serves. Its borrowers took out 9.2 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
ACivic life#5 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Taber’s civic life grade
Civic life in Taber grades A: #5 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Taber has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Taber mailing addresses hold 31 registered charities
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.1; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
37.1%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 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.
About 256 visits a day
Everything counted at Wandering River Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Taber’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Taber.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Taber’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
- Per person served. Rather than Taber’s census count, the rates use the population the library board says it serves.
Questions about the library and civic life in Taber
Does Taber have a public library?
Yes: Wandering River Public Library.
How busy is Wandering River Public Library?
Over 2022: 77,490 items out on loan, 93,594 visits through the door.
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).