Library Visits per Person: Spruce Grove, Stony Plain and Parkland County vs Leduc, Fort Saskatchewan and Alberta

In-person library visits per resident each year. Stony Plain had 7.4 visits per resident in 2015 and 5.2 in 2022, Spruce Grove 4.8 and 4.9, Parkland County's board 1.9 and 0.4; Alberta's boards together went from 5.5 to 3.5, still below their pre-pandemic level (5.6 in 2019) in 2022. Visits to 2016 are the sheet's Annual Visits. Leduc and Fort Saskatchewan are Edmonton-region cities of a similar size; the Alberta line is every municipal library board together (Calgary and Edmonton weigh most). From each board's annual report to Alberta Municipal Affairs, 2015 to 2022 (the newest year published). Per person = the board's figure over its own service population, and a board's users can live outside it, so a town library that serves the farms around it reads busier per person and Parkland County's own board, with small branches, reads quieter. 2020 and 2021 were pandemic years.