More loans per person served than 82% of Alberta’s town libraries: Calgary Library lends 12.7
The library figures on this page are Calgary’s: Calgary Library serves all 1,285,711 people of the city, Winston Heights/Mountview among them. 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 AlbertaWinston Heights/Mountview’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Winston Heights/Mountview 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 Winston Heights/Mountview.
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 Winston Heights/Mountview 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%
Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 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
What Calgary Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 2.8 km from Winston Heights/Mountview
In order of distance from the centre of Winston Heights/Mountview, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.
Questions about the library and civic life in Winston Heights/Mountview
Does Winston Heights/Mountview have a public library?
Not in Winston Heights/Mountview: the nearest public library is Reg Erhardt Library, in Hillhurst.
How busy is Calgary Library?
It counted 4,909,275 in-person visits and lent 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).