Photo: David Wilson from Oak Park, Illinois, USA · CC BY 2.0More loans per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Taylor Family Digital Library lends 12.7
Taylor Family Digital Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Banff Trail among them. Visits ran to 3.8 per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Banff Trail’s civic life grade
Civic life in Banff Trail grades B. 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 Banff Trail.
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 Banff Trail on its own: the charities are those of all of Calgary. It works out to 1.2 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of 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 13,450 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Taylor Family Digital Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Banff Trail’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Banff Trail.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Banff Trail
Does Banff Trail have a public library?
Yes: Taylor Family Digital Library.
How busy is Taylor Family Digital Library?
For 2022 it reported 16,347,892 loans and 4,909,275 in-person visits.
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).