MacEwan has no public library of its own; the nearest is Edmonton Public Library, 2.7 km away
MacEwan is served by Edmonton Library, the library of all of Edmonton, so the figures here are the city’s, for 972,223 people. In 2022 it lent 8.8 items for every person it serves. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind MacEwan’s civic life grade
MacEwan gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. MacEwan 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.
Edmonton mailing addresses hold 1,638 registered charities
There is no count for MacEwan 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%
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
Everything counted at Edmonton Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The nearest library is 2.7 km from MacEwan
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of MacEwan.
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 MacEwan
Does MacEwan have a public library?
The map shows none in MacEwan; Edmonton Public Library, in Rutherford, is the closest.
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).