Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainEach person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Livingston is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. It counted 3.8 in-person visits per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Livingston’s civic life grade
Livingston gets a B for civic life, #85 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Livingston.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,993 registered charities are based in Calgary, by mailing address
There is no count for Livingston 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%
One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial 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.
Some 13,450 visits on an average day
Everything counted at Calgary Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 3.1 km from Livingston
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Livingston.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Livingston
Does Livingston have a public library?
Not in Livingston: the nearest public library is Calgary Public Library - Country Hills, in Country Hills Village.
How busy is Calgary Library?
4,909,275 in-person visits and 16,347,892 items borrowed 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).