Photo: Dwayne Reilander · CC BY-SA 4.0Calgary Public Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Calgary Public Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Bowness 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 life#85 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Bowness’s civic life grade
Civic life in Bowness grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Bowness: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,993 registered charities give a Calgary mailing address
There is no count for Bowness 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. 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%
No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 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
The year 2022 at Calgary Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Bowness’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Bowness, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Bowness
Does Bowness have a public library?
Yes: Calgary Public Library - Bowness.
How busy is Calgary Public Library?
Over 2022: 16,347,892 items out on loan, 4,909,275 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).