The nearest public library to Eastwood is Edmonton Public Library - Highlands, 1.4 km away
Eastwood 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. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Eastwood’s civic life grade
Eastwood gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Eastwood 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.
1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Eastwood 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
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
Everything counted at Edmonton Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.4 km from Eastwood
In order of distance from the centre of Eastwood, as the crow flies.
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 Eastwood
Does Eastwood have a public library?
No library is mapped inside Eastwood, and the nearest one is Edmonton Public Library - Highlands in Montrose.
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).