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Libraries · Two Hills

No public library stands in Two Hills: the closest, Vegreville Centennial Library, is 32 km away

A single building, Two Hills Library, serves 1,443 people. Loans ran to 7.7 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.

A−Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Visits a year
6,448
4.5 per person served
Borrowed a year
11,043
7.7 per person served
Cardholders
20%
292 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
19
11.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Two Hills’s civic life grade, input by input

Two Hills’s civic life grade is 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 Two Hills.

A−
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Two Hills’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

19 registered charities give a Two Hills mailing address

It works out to 11.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

37.1%

In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 4.5 visits · typical 3.6Higher than 62%
Loans per person served 7.7 items · typical 8.1Lower than 56%
Cardholders 20% of people served · typical 20%Higher than 50%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

Some 18 visits on an average day

Everything counted at Two Hills Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.

6,448
in-person visits
4.5 per person served
11,043
items borrowed
7.7 per person served
292
cardholders
20% of people served
Every week124visits
Every day30items borrowed
1,443 people served
Nearest libraries

The closest is 32 km from Two Hills

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Two Hills.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Per person served. Figures are divided by the population the library says it serves, which can differ from the census count of Two Hills.

Questions about the library and civic life in Two Hills

Does Two Hills have a public library?

No, but Vegreville Centennial Library in Vegreville is the nearest public library to Two Hills.

How busy is Two Hills Library?

In 2022 it logged 6,448 in-person visits and 11,043 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).