At 12.7 loans per person served, Calgary Library lends more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Deer Ridge is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. In 2022 it logged 3.8 visits for every person it serves. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaDeer Ridge’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Deer Ridge grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Deer Ridge: 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.
Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities
There is no count for Deer Ridge 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%
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
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 4.1 km from Deer Ridge
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Deer Ridge.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Deer Ridge
Does Deer Ridge have a public library?
Not within Deer Ridge itself: the closest is Calgary Public Library - Quarry Park, in Douglasdale/Glen.
How busy is Calgary Library?
It counted 4,909,275 in-person visits and lent 16,347,892 items in 2022.
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).