Photo: Benlarhome · CC BY-SA 4.0At 12.7 loans per person served, Calgary Library lends more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Renfrew 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. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Renfrew’s civic life grade
Civic life in Renfrew grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Renfrew 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.
Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities
There is no count for Renfrew 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
37.1%
Between 35.1% and 39.2% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023, 37.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
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 km from Renfrew
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Renfrew.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.
Questions about the library and civic life in Renfrew
Does Renfrew have a public library?
There isn’t one in Renfrew; people there use libraries such as W.R. Castell Central Library, in Downtown East Village.
How busy is Calgary Library?
Its 2022 report counts 4,909,275 visits in person and 16,347,892 items lent.
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).