Photo: Koppertone · CC BY-SA 3.0Fewer loans per person served than 77% of Alberta’s town libraries: Whitecourt & District Public Library lends 5.2
A single building, Whitecourt & District Public Library, serves 10,204 people. Visits ran to 3.2 per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
B+Civic life#76 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Whitecourt’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Whitecourt grades B+: #76 of the 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 Whitecourt.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
21 registered charities are based in Whitecourt, by mailing address
It works out to 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.
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.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 89 visits on an average day
What Whitecourt & District Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Whitecourt’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Whitecourt, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Whitecourt
Does Whitecourt have a public library?
Yes: Whitecourt & District Public Library.
How busy is Whitecourt & District Public Library?
For 2022 it reported 53,312 loans and 32,450 in-person visits.
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).