Photo: Originally uploaded by Johntwrl (Transferred by Cloudbound ) · Public domainThe nearest public library to Elmwood is Jasper Place Branch Library, 1.3 km away
Edmonton Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Elmwood among them. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. 2022 is the latest year in Alberta’s open library statistics, so the figures date from then.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaElmwood’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Elmwood 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 Elmwood.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,638 registered charities are based in Edmonton, by mailing address
There is no count for Elmwood 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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
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 1.3 km from Elmwood
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Elmwood.
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 Elmwood
Does Elmwood have a public library?
Not in Elmwood: the nearest public library is Jasper Place Branch Library, in Meadowlark Park.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
People made 3,479,257 visits in person and borrowed 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).