Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainCalgary Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 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, Midnapore among them. It counted 3.8 in-person visits per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Midnapore’s civic life grade weighs
Civic life in Midnapore grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Midnapore 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.
1,993 registered charities give a Calgary mailing address
There is no count for Midnapore on its own: the charities are those of all of Calgary. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.2; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 13,450 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.2 km from Midnapore
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Midnapore.
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 Midnapore
Does Midnapore have a public library?
None is mapped in Midnapore; the nearest is Calgary Public Library - Shawnessy, in Shawnessy.
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).