Photo: Simon Law from Montréal, QC, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0Downtown has two public libraries, Stanley A. Milner Library and Edmonton Public Library
Edmonton Public Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Downtown among them. Its borrowers took out 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 AlbertaDowntown’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Downtown ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Downtown has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
Edmonton mailing addresses hold 1,638 registered charities
There is no count for Downtown 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. 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
Everything counted at Edmonton Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
Downtown’s 2 public libraries
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Downtown.
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 Downtown
Does Downtown have a public library?
Yes, 2: Stanley A. Milner Library and Edmonton Public Library.
How busy is Edmonton Public Library?
3,479,257 in-person visits and 8,578,865 items borrowed 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).