Photo: Mack Male from Edmonton, AB, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0No public library stands in King Edward Park: the closest, Edmonton Public Library - Idylwylde Branch, is 1.7 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, King Edward Park among them. In 2022 it lent 8.8 items for every person it serves. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind King Edward Park’s civic life grade
Civic life in King Edward Park grades B: #237 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. 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 King Edward Park.
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 King Edward Park 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.
37.1%
The 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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
What Edmonton Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.7 km from King Edward Park
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of King Edward Park.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in King Edward Park
Does King Edward Park have a public library?
Not within King Edward Park itself: the closest is Edmonton Public Library - Idylwylde Branch, in Bonnie Doon.
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).