Photo: Kurayba · CC BY-SA 2.0The nearest public library to Malmo Plains is Whitemud Crossing Library EPL, 2 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Malmo Plains among them. Loans ran to 8.8 items per person served in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaMalmo Plains’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Malmo Plains 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 Malmo Plains.
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 Malmo Plains 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. 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
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
What Edmonton Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The closest is 2 km from Malmo Plains
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Malmo Plains.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Malmo Plains
Does Malmo Plains have a public library?
No, but Whitemud Crossing Library EPL in Duggan is the nearest public library to Malmo Plains.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
3,479,257 in-person visits and 8,578,865 items borrowed 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).