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Libraries · Country Hills

More 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, Country Hills 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 Alberta
Visits a year
4,909,275
3.8 per person served
Borrowed a year
16,347,892
12.7 per person served
Cardholders
58%
750,719 cards
Charities
1,993
1.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Country Hills’s civic life grade weighs

With a B, Country Hills ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Country Hills: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Country Hills’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,993 registered charities are based in Calgary, by mailing address

There is no count for Country Hills 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.

Volunteering

37.1%

The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 3.8 visits · typical 3.6Higher than 54%
Loans per person served 12.7 items · typical 8.1Higher than 82%
Cardholders 58% of people served · typical 20%Top 10%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

Some 13,450 visits on an average day

What Calgary Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.

4,909,275
in-person visits
3.8 per person served
16,347,892
items borrowed
12.7 per person served
750,719
cardholders
58% of people served
Every week94,409visits
Every day44,789items borrowed
1,285,711 people served
Nearest libraries

The closest is 1.5 km from Country Hills

In order of distance from the centre of Country Hills, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Country Hills

Does Country Hills have a public library?

No library is mapped inside Country Hills, and the nearest one is Calgary Public Library - Country Hills in Country Hills Village.

How busy is Calgary Library?

The 2022 totals: 4,909,275 in-person visits, 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).