Photo: Tiado · CC BY-SA 3.0At 12.7 loans per person served, Calgary Public Library lends 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, Douglasdale/Glen among them. It counted 3.8 in-person visits 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 AlbertaWhat Douglasdale/Glen’s civic life grade weighs
With a B, Douglasdale/Glen ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Douglasdale/Glen 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.
Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities
There is no count for Douglasdale/Glen 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.1%
In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.
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
What Calgary Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Douglasdale/Glen’s public library
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Douglasdale/Glen.
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 Douglasdale/Glen
Does Douglasdale/Glen have a public library?
Yes: Calgary Public Library - Quarry Park.
How busy is Calgary Public Library?
4,909,275 in-person visits and 16,347,892 items borrowed 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).