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Libraries · Beaumaris

EPL Castle Downs Branch is Beaumaris’s public library

Beaumaris is served by Edmonton Public Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people. In 2022 it lent 8.8 items for every person it serves. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.

BCivic life#237 of 474 in Alberta
Visits a year
3,479,257
3.6 per person served
Borrowed a year
8,578,865
8.8 per person served
Cardholders
27%
262,351 cards
Libraries
1
Charities
1,638
1.3 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Beaumaris’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in Beaumaris grades B: #237 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Beaumaris: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Beaumaris’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,638 registered charities are based in Edmonton, by mailing address

There is no count for Beaumaris on its own: the charities are those of all of Edmonton. Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.3; the median is 1.3 for Alberta towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

37.1%

One figure covers all of Alberta: in 2023, 37.1% of its people gave time to an organization (between 35.1% and 39.2%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures

Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.

Visits per person served 3.6 visits · typical 3.6Lower than 52%
Loans per person served 8.8 items · typical 8.1Higher than 55%
Cardholders 27% of people served · typical 20%Higher than 74%
Fewer per personMore per person
Who is compared

Town libraries only; regional systems left out.

A year at the library

About 9,532 visits a day

The year 2022 at Edmonton Public Library, in the library’s own counts.

3,479,257
in-person visits
3.6 per person served
8,578,865
items borrowed
8.8 per person served
262,351
cardholders
27% of people served
Every week66,909visits
Every day23,504items borrowed
972,223 people served
The libraries

Beaumaris’s public library

Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Beaumaris.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.

Questions about the library and civic life in Beaumaris

Does Beaumaris have a public library?

Yes: EPL Castle Downs Branch.

How busy is Edmonton Public Library?

Over 2022: 8,578,865 items out on loan, 3,479,257 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).