Photo: Nuggets · CC BY 3.0Yellowhead County Library lends 2.6 items per person served, fewer than 88% of Alberta’s town libraries
From 3 branches, Yellowhead County Library serves 10,995 people. Visits ran to 2 per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
CCivic life#471 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Yellowhead County’s civic life grade weighs
Yellowhead County gets a C for civic life, #471 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 Yellowhead County.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
4 registered charities are based in Yellowhead County, by mailing address
It works out to 0.4 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
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.
Behind 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 62 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Yellowhead County Library, in the library’s own counts.
2 public libraries in Yellowhead County
In order of distance from the centre of Yellowhead County, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Yellowhead County
Does Yellowhead County have a public library?
Yes, 2: Wildwood Library and Wildwood Public Library.
How busy is Yellowhead County Library?
Over 2022: 28,692 items out on loan, 22,485 visits through the door.
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).