No public library stands in Lee Ridge: the closest, Mill Woods Public Libary, is 2.1 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Lee Ridge among them. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaLee Ridge’s civic life grade, input by input
Civic life in Lee Ridge 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 Lee Ridge.
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 Lee Ridge 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. 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%
Between 35.1% and 39.2% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023, 37.1% at the estimate’s middle; that is one figure for the province, which ranges from 25.2% to 40.3% nationally.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
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.
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 2.1 km from Lee Ridge
Nearest first, measured in a straight line from the centre of Lee Ridge.
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 Lee Ridge
Does Lee Ridge have a public library?
Not in Lee Ridge: the nearest public library is Mill Woods Public Libary, in Meyokumin.
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).