Photo: DXR · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Rosedale is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. In 2022 it logged 3.8 visits for every person it serves. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Rosedale’s civic life grade
With a B, Rosedale ranks #85 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. A civic life grade combines library visits per resident, registered charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate, and all three exist for Rosedale.
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 Rosedale 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%
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
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
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 0.6 km from Rosedale
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Rosedale.
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 Rosedale
Does Rosedale have a public library?
The map shows none in Rosedale; Reg Erhardt Library, in Hillhurst, is the closest.
How busy is Calgary Library?
In 2022 it logged 4,909,275 in-person visits and 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).