Photo: Enzenberger · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer visits per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Wetaskiwin Library counts 2.1
The 12,655 people Wetaskiwin Library serves have 2 branches to choose from. Loans ran to 6.2 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B+Civic life#59 of 474 in AlbertaWetaskiwin’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Wetaskiwin grades B+: #59 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Wetaskiwin: 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.
48 registered charities are based in Wetaskiwin, by mailing address
Per 1,000 residents that makes 3.5; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 1 of 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 73 visits on an average day
What Wetaskiwin Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Wetaskiwin’s 2 public libraries
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Wetaskiwin.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Wetaskiwin
Does Wetaskiwin have a public library?
Yes, 2: Breton Municipal Library and Calmar Public Library.
How busy is Wetaskiwin Library?
Its 2022 report counts 26,700 visits in person and 78,761 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).