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Libraries · Hazeldean

No public library stands in Hazeldean: the closest, Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch, is 2.4 km away

Hazeldean is served by Edmonton Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people. 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 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

Behind Hazeldean’s civic life grade

Hazeldean gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. Hazeldean has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Hazeldean’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 Hazeldean 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. 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%

In 2023, 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally: one estimate for the whole province, likely between 35.1% and 39.2%, in a range of 25.2% to 40.3% across the ten provinces.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures

Per person served, against the 118 town libraries in Alberta’s 2022 statistics.

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 2.4 km from Hazeldean

Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Hazeldean.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. The points are public libraries only, drawn from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020).

Questions about the library and civic life in Hazeldean

Does Hazeldean have a public library?

There isn’t one in Hazeldean; people there use libraries such as Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch, in Strathcona.

How busy is Edmonton Library?

Its 2022 report counts 3,479,257 visits in person and 8,578,865 items lent.

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).