Photo: R. Sieben · CC BY 3.0Vulcan Municipal Library lends 20 items per person served, more than 97% of Alberta’s town libraries
Vulcan Municipal Library serves 1,917 people from a single building. It counted 8.7 in-person visits 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 Vulcan’s civic life grade
Civic life in Vulcan grades A. Vulcan has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
13 registered charities give a Vulcan mailing address
It works out to 6.8 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 46 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Vulcan Municipal Library, in the library’s own counts.
Vulcan’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Vulcan, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Visits count everyone. Tourists, commuters and neighbours all add to the visits, and nobody records which of them live in Vulcan.
Questions about the library and civic life in Vulcan
Does Vulcan have a public library?
Yes: Vulcan Municipal Library.
How busy is Vulcan Municipal Library?
Its 2022 report counts 16,700 visits in person and 38,407 items lent.
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).