Photo: Khoshhat · CC BY-SA 4.0No public library stands in Cavanagh: the closest, Edmonton Public Library, is 2.4 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Cavanagh among them. 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 AlbertaWhat Cavanagh’s civic life grade weighs
Cavanagh gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Cavanagh: 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 give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Cavanagh on its own: the charities are those of all of Edmonton. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.
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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 9,532 visits a day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 2.4 km from Cavanagh
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Cavanagh.
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 Cavanagh
Does Cavanagh have a public library?
The map shows none in Cavanagh; Edmonton Public Library, in Rutherford, is the closest.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
The 2022 totals: 3,479,257 in-person visits, 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).