Each person Newbrook Library serves borrows 5.1 items, fewer than at 78% of Alberta’s town libraries
Newbrook Library has 3 branches for the 3,254 people it serves. It counted 4.5 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
A−Civic life#42 of 474 in AlbertaThorhild County’s civic life grade, input by input
Thorhild County gets a A− for civic life, #42 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Thorhild County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
11 registered charities are based in Thorhild County, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.5; 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%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 40 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Newbrook Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Thorhild County’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Thorhild County.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Thorhild County
Does Thorhild County have a public library?
Yes: Newbrook Library.
How busy is Newbrook Library?
Over 2022: 16,577 items out on loan, 14,772 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).