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Libraries · Huntington Hills

Each person Calgary Public Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 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, Huntington Hills 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 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
Libraries
1
Charities
1,993
1.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

What Huntington Hills’s civic life grade weighs

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

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Huntington Hills’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 Huntington Hills 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. 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%

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.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures

Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of 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

Some 13,450 visits on an average day

The year 2022 at Calgary Public 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
The libraries

Huntington Hills’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Huntington Hills.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).

Questions about the library and civic life in Huntington Hills

Does Huntington Hills have a public library?

Yes: Calgary Public Library - Judith Umbach branch (Thorncliffe).

How busy is Calgary Public Library?

It counted 4,909,275 in-person visits and lent 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).