Photo: Jeffrey Wallace · CC BY-SA 4.0Blue Ridge Community Library lends 4.4 items per person served, fewer than 81% of Alberta’s town libraries
Blue Ridge Community Library serves 4,754 people from 2 branches. 3.6 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
A−Civic life#54 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Woodlands County’s civic life grade
With a A−, Woodlands County ranks #54 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. 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 Woodlands County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
No registered charity gives a Woodlands County mailing address
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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 40.3%.
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.
About 47 visits a day
Everything counted at Blue Ridge Community Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Woodlands County’s public library
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Woodlands County.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Woodlands County
Does Woodlands County have a public library?
Yes: Blue Ridge Community Library.
How busy is Blue Ridge Community Library?
It counted 17,253 in-person visits and lent 21,000 items in 2022.
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).