Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Each person Calgary Public Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Forest Lawn is served by Calgary Public Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. 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 AlbertaForest Lawn’s civic life grade, input by input
Forest Lawn gets a B for civic life, #85 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Forest Lawn 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 Forest Lawn 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. 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.
37.1%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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 Public Library, in the library’s own counts.
Forest Lawn’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Forest Lawn.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Forest Lawn
Does Forest Lawn have a public library?
Yes: Calgary Public Library - Forest Lawn.
How busy is Calgary Public 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).