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Libraries · Glamorgan

At 12.7 loans per person served, Calgary Library lends more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries

Glamorgan 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 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

Glamorgan’s civic life grade, input by input

Glamorgan gets a B for civic life, #85 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Glamorgan: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,993 registered charities give a Calgary mailing address

There is no count for Glamorgan 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%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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

Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.

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

About 13,450 visits a 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 nearest library is 1.5 km from Glamorgan

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

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Glamorgan

Does Glamorgan have a public library?

The map shows none in Glamorgan; Calgary Public Library - Signal Hill, in Signal Hill, is the closest.

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).