More loans per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Calgary Library lends 12.7
The library figures on this page are Calgary’s: Calgary Library serves all 1,285,711 people of the city, Lake Bonavista among them. 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 AlbertaBehind Lake Bonavista’s civic life grade
Civic life in Lake Bonavista grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Lake Bonavista: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,993 registered charities give a Calgary mailing address
There is no count for Lake Bonavista 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
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.
About 13,450 visits a day
What Calgary Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.4 km from Lake Bonavista
In order of distance from the centre of Lake Bonavista, as the crow flies.
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 Lake Bonavista
Does Lake Bonavista have a public library?
The map shows none in Lake Bonavista; Calgary Public Library - Fish Creek, in Willow Park, is the closest.
How busy is Calgary Library?
People made 4,909,275 visits in person and borrowed 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).