Photo: Thank you for visiting my page from Canada · CC BY 2.0Calgary Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Calgary Library serves the whole of Calgary, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 1,285,711 people, Downtown Commercial Core among them. It counted 3.8 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaDowntown Commercial Core’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Downtown Commercial Core ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Downtown Commercial Core 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 give a Calgary mailing address
There is no count for Downtown Commercial Core 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 13,450 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1 km from Downtown Commercial Core
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Downtown Commercial Core.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Downtown Commercial Core
Does Downtown Commercial Core have a public library?
None is mapped in Downtown Commercial Core; the nearest is Calgary Public Library - Memorial Park, in Beltline.
How busy is Calgary Library?
People made 4,909,275 visits in person and borrowed 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).