Photo: Wilson Hui from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0The nearest public library to Trochu is T. S. Rendall Library, 14 km away
Trochu Library serves 1,058 people from a single building. Loans ran to 6.8 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
ACivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Trochu’s civic life grade
Civic life in Trochu grades A. 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 Trochu.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Trochu mailing addresses hold 9 registered charities
That is 7.6 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. 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%
The 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 14 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Trochu Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 14 km from Trochu
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Trochu.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Trochu
Does Trochu have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Trochu, and the nearest one is T. S. Rendall Library in Three Hills.
How busy is Trochu Library?
The 2022 totals: 5,000 in-person visits, 7,231 loans.
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).