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Libraries · Brintnell

Brintnell’s public library is Edmonton Public Library - McConachie

Edmonton Public Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Brintnell among them. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. 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

Brintnell’s civic life grade, input by input

Civic life in Brintnell grades B: #237 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Brintnell has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

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

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address

There is no count for Brintnell 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

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.

How it compares

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

Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.

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

Some 9,532 visits on an average 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

Brintnell’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Brintnell, as the crow flies.

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 Brintnell

Does Brintnell have a public library?

Yes: Edmonton Public Library - McConachie.

How busy is Edmonton Public Library?

In 2022 it logged 3,479,257 in-person visits and 8,578,865 loans.

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).