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Libraries · Sage Hill

More loans per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Calgary Public Library lends 12.7

Sage Hill 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. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.

BCivic life#85 of 474 in Alberta
Visits a year
4,909,275
3.8 per person served
Borrowed a year
16,347,892
12.7 per person served
Cardholders
58%
750,719 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
1,993
1.2 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Sage Hill’s civic life grade

Civic life in Sage Hill grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Sage Hill has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Sage Hill’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Calgary mailing addresses hold 1,993 registered charities

There is no count for Sage Hill 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.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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.

Visits per person served 3.8 visits · typical 3.6Higher than 54%
Loans per person served 12.7 items · typical 8.1Higher than 82%
Cardholders 58% of people served · typical 20%Top 10%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

Some 13,450 visits on an average day

Everything counted at Calgary Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.

4,909,275
in-person visits
3.8 per person served
16,347,892
items borrowed
12.7 per person served
750,719
cardholders
58% of people served
Every week94,409visits
Every day44,789items borrowed
1,285,711 people served
The libraries

Sage Hill’s public library

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Sage Hill.

How to read these numbers

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 Sage Hill

Does Sage Hill have a public library?

Yes: Sage Hill Public Library.

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).