Photo: Rural Health Professions Action Plan from Edmonton, Alberta, Canada · CC BY 2.0Three Hills Library lends 14 items per person served, more than 89% of Alberta’s town libraries
From 2 branches, Three Hills Library serves 3,212 people. 6 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic life#13 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Three Hills’s civic life grade
Three Hills gets a A for civic life, #13 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Three 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.
24 registered charities are based in Three Hills, by mailing address
That is 6.9 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%
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 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 53 visits a day
Everything counted at Three Hills Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
2 public libraries in Three Hills
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Three Hills.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. The visit count makes no difference between Three Hills’s residents and everyone else who walks in.
Questions about the library and civic life in Three Hills
Does Three Hills have a public library?
Yes, 2: T. S. Rendall Library and Three Hills Public Library.
How busy is Three Hills Library?
It counted 19,300 in-person visits and lent 45,104 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).