The nearest public library to Callaghan is Edmonton Public Library, 0.7 km away
Edmonton Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Callaghan among them. Loans ran to 8.8 items per person served in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaCallaghan’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Callaghan ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for Callaghan: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,638 registered charities are based in Edmonton, by mailing address
There is no count for Callaghan on its own: the charities are those of all of Edmonton. That is 1.3 per 1,000 residents, against 1.3 in the typical Alberta town and 1.4 across Canada. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
37.1%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 9,532 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 0.7 km from Callaghan
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Callaghan.
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 Callaghan
Does Callaghan have a public library?
No, but Edmonton Public Library in Rutherford is the nearest public library to Callaghan.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
It counted 3,479,257 in-person visits and lent 8,578,865 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).