Photo: Shoju foge · CC BY-SA 3.0Vermliion Public Library is Vermilion’s public library
A single building, Vermliion Public Library, serves 4,150 people. Loans ran to 11.4 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic life#43 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Vermilion’s civic life grade weighs
Vermilion gets a A− for civic life, #43 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 Vermilion.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Vermilion mailing addresses hold 23 registered charities
That is 5.5 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 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.
Some 44 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Vermliion Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Vermilion’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Vermilion, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vermilion
Does Vermilion have a public library?
Yes: Vermliion Public Library.
How busy is Vermliion Public Library?
In 2022 it logged 16,118 in-person visits and 47,305 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).