Photo: jockrutherford from Owen Sound, ON · CC BY-SA 2.0Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Queensland is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. 3.8 visits per person served came through its doors in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaWhat Queensland’s civic life grade weighs
Queensland gets a B for civic life, #85 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Queensland: 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.
Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities
There is no count for Queensland 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. 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
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
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 2.8 km from Queensland
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Queensland.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Queensland
Does Queensland have a public library?
Queensland has none mapped; the closest public library is Calgary Public Library - Quarry Park, in Douglasdale/Glen.
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).