Photo: JMacPherson from Calgary, Canada · CC BY 2.0Each person Calgary Library serves borrows 12.7 items, more than at 82% of Alberta’s town libraries
Wildwood is served by Calgary 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 AlbertaWildwood’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Wildwood 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 Wildwood.
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 Wildwood 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
37.1%
Across Alberta, 37.1% of people volunteered through an organization in 2023, a provincial estimate with a likely range of 35.1% to 39.2%; the lowest province sits at 25.2% and the highest at 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
Everything counted at Calgary Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.6 km from Wildwood
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Wildwood.
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 Wildwood
Does Wildwood have a public library?
Not in Wildwood: the nearest public library is Westbrook Library, in Rosscarrock.
How busy is Calgary Library?
Over 2022: 16,347,892 items out on loan, 4,909,275 visits through the door.
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).