Each person Calgary Public Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Redstone is served by Calgary Public 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. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Redstone’s civic life grade
With a B, Redstone ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Redstone 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 are based in Calgary, by mailing address
There is no count for Redstone 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%
The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run 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
Everything counted at Calgary Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Redstone’s public library
In order of distance from the centre of Redstone, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Redstone
Does Redstone have a public library?
Yes: Calgary Public Library - Prototype: Skyview.
How busy is Calgary Public Library?
The 2022 totals: 4,909,275 in-person visits, 16,347,892 loans.
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).