Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5Calgary Library lends 12.7 items per person served, more than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Sandstone Valley 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. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#85 of 474 in AlbertaSandstone Valley’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Sandstone Valley grades B: #85 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 Sandstone Valley.
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 Sandstone Valley 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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
Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in 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 3.2 km from Sandstone Valley
In order of distance from the centre of Sandstone Valley, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Sandstone Valley
Does Sandstone Valley have a public library?
Sandstone Valley has none mapped; the closest public library is Calgary Public Library - Country Hills, in Country Hills 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).