Photo: Qyd · CC BY-SA 3.0More 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, Montgomery among them. Visits ran to 3.8 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 AlbertaMontgomery’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Montgomery ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Montgomery: 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 Montgomery 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. 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%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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
What Calgary Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 2.1 km from Montgomery
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Montgomery.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The map joins OpenStreetMap with Statistics Canada’s 2020 cultural facilities list and leaves out school, college and private libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Montgomery
Does Montgomery have a public library?
No, but Calgary Public Library - Bowness in Bowness is the nearest public library to Montgomery.
How busy is Calgary 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).