Calmar Library draws 2.2 visits per person served, behind 79% of Alberta’s town libraries
Calmar Library has one location for the 2,228 people it serves. In 2022 it lent 6.1 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
C+Civic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind Calmar’s civic life grade
Civic life in Calmar grades C+. Calmar has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
17 registered charities are based in Calmar, by mailing address
That is 7.3 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.
Behind most of Alberta’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 13 visits a day
The year 2022 at Calmar Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 12 km from Calmar
In order of distance from the centre of Calmar, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Calmar
Does Calmar have a public library?
Not within Calmar itself: the closest is Devon Public Library, in Devon.
How busy is Calmar Library?
People made 4,829 visits in person and borrowed 13,620 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).