No public library stands in Carlisle: the closest, Calder Library, is 1.6 km away
Carlisle is served by Edmonton Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people. Loans ran to 8.8 items per person served in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Carlisle’s civic life grade
Civic life in Carlisle grades B: #237 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 Carlisle.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Carlisle 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. 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%
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.
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.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
Some 9,532 visits on an average day
What Edmonton Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 1.6 km from Carlisle
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Carlisle.
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 Carlisle
Does Carlisle have a public library?
No, but Calder Library in Athlone is the nearest public library to Carlisle.
How busy is Edmonton 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).