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Libraries · Balgonie

The nearest public library to Balgonie is White City Branch Library, 8 km away

After it comes Pilot Butte Library (Pilot Butte), 10 km away. Without open library statistics in Saskatchewan, the page names Balgonie’s libraries but shows no visits or loans.

BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteering
Civic life grade

Balgonie’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in Balgonie grades B. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Balgonie, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Balgonie’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

4 registered charities are based in Balgonie, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 2; the median is 2 for Saskatchewan towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

36.6%

The 2023 survey gives Saskatchewan one volunteering rate for all its towns, 36.6% (between 33.9% and 39.5%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 8 km from Balgonie

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Balgonie.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Balgonie

Does Balgonie have a public library?

There isn’t one in Balgonie; people there use libraries such as White City Branch Library, in White City.

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).