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Libraries · Matt Berry

The nearest public library to Matt Berry is Edmonton Public Library - McConachie, 1.6 km away

The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Matt Berry 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 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 Matt Berry’s civic life grade

With a B, Matt Berry 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 Matt Berry.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Matt Berry’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 Matt Berry 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. Counting by mailing address favors a service town, where the surrounding area’s charities get their mail, over the suburbs and countryside around it.

Volunteering

37.1%

Volunteering here is a provincial number: 37.1% of people across Alberta in 2023, likely 35.1% to 39.2%, set in a ten-province range of 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

How it compares

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.

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

Some 9,532 visits on an average day

The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.

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 closest is 1.6 km from Matt Berry

In order of distance from the centre of Matt Berry, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. A library listed by both OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada appears once; campus, school and private ones are left off.

Questions about the library and civic life in Matt Berry

Does Matt Berry have a public library?

None is mapped in Matt Berry; the nearest is Edmonton Public Library - McConachie, in Brintnell.

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).