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Libraries · Crystallina Nera West

No public library stands in Crystallina Nera West: the closest, Edmonton Public Library - McConachie, is 3.6 km away

Crystallina Nera West is served by Edmonton 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. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.

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
Charities
1,638
1.3 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Crystallina Nera West’s civic life grade, input by input

With a B, Crystallina Nera West ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. 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 Crystallina Nera West.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Crystallina Nera West’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

Edmonton mailing addresses hold 1,638 registered charities

There is no count for Crystallina Nera West 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. 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%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Alberta as a whole: 37.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 35.1% and 39.2%, while the provinces span 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

What Edmonton Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.

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
Nearest libraries

The nearest library is 3.6 km from Crystallina Nera West

In order of distance from the centre of Crystallina Nera West, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.

Questions about the library and civic life in Crystallina Nera West

Does Crystallina Nera West have a public library?

Not within Crystallina Nera West itself: the closest is Edmonton Public Library - McConachie, in Brintnell.

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).