Photo: Nicewomanizer · CC BY-SA 3.0Calgary Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
The library figures on this page are Calgary’s: Calgary Library serves all 1,285,711 people of the city, Albert Park/Radisson Heights among them. Visits ran to 3.8 per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaAlbert Park/Radisson Heights’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Albert Park/Radisson Heights ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Albert Park/Radisson Heights has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,993 registered charities are based in Calgary, by mailing address
There is no count for Albert Park/Radisson Heights on its own: the charities are those of all of Calgary. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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%
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 all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 13,450 visits on an average day
What Calgary Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.6 km from Albert Park/Radisson Heights
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Albert Park/Radisson Heights.
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 Albert Park/Radisson Heights
Does Albert Park/Radisson Heights have a public library?
No, but Calgary Public Library - Forest Lawn in Forest Lawn is the nearest public library to Albert Park/Radisson Heights.
How busy is Calgary Library?
In 2022 it logged 4,909,275 in-person visits and 16,347,892 loans.
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).