Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Sundance is served by Calgary Library, the library of all of Calgary, so the figures here are the city’s, for 1,285,711 people. Visits ran to 3.8 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 AlbertaBehind Sundance’s civic life grade
Sundance gets a B for civic life, #85 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Sundance: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
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 Sundance 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%
For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally (likely 35.1% to 39.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes 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.
Some 13,450 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Calgary Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.7 km from Sundance
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Sundance.
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 Sundance
Does Sundance have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Sundance, and the nearest one is Calgary Public Library - Shawnessy in Shawnessy.
How busy is Calgary Library?
People made 4,909,275 visits in person and borrowed 16,347,892 items in 2022.
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).