Photo: Daniel from Glasgow, United Kingdom · CC BY 2.0At 12.7 loans per person served, Calgary Library lends more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Killarney/Glengarry 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. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Killarney/Glengarry’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Killarney/Glengarry grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Killarney/Glengarry 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 Killarney/Glengarry 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 13,450 visits a day
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.9 km from Killarney/Glengarry
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Killarney/Glengarry.
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 Killarney/Glengarry
Does Killarney/Glengarry have a public library?
Not within Killarney/Glengarry itself: the closest is Calgary Public Library - Nicholls Family, in Rosscarrock.
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).