Photo: dave_7 from Lethbridge, Canada · CC BY 2.0More loans per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Calgary Library lends 12.7
Calgary Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Bridgeland/Riverside among them. In 2022 it logged 3.8 visits for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Bridgeland/Riverside’s civic life grade weighs
With a B, Bridgeland/Riverside ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Bridgeland/Riverside 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 Bridgeland/Riverside on its own: the charities are those of all of Calgary. That is 1.2 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Alberta at 37.1% in 2023, somewhere between 35.1% and 39.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 13,450 visits a day
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Bridgeland/Riverside
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Bridgeland/Riverside.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).
Questions about the library and civic life in Bridgeland/Riverside
Does Bridgeland/Riverside have a public library?
The map shows none in Bridgeland/Riverside; Calgary Public Library, in Downtown East Village, is the closest.
How busy is Calgary 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).