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Libraries · Haysboro

Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 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, Haysboro among them. Visits ran to 3.8 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 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

Haysboro’s civic life grade, input by input

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

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities

There is no count for Haysboro 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.

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

Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.

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

Some 13,450 visits on an average day

The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.

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 closest is 1 km from Haysboro

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

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Haysboro

Does Haysboro have a public library?

No, but Calgary Public Library - Southwood in Southwood is the nearest public library to Haysboro.

How busy is Calgary Library?

In 2022 it logged 4,909,275 in-person visits and 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).