No public library stands in Mayliewan: the closest, EPL Castle Downs Branch, is 3.5 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Mayliewan 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 AlbertaMayliewan’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Mayliewan 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 Mayliewan.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Mayliewan 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%
37.1% of people in Alberta did formal volunteering in 2023, a province-wide estimate between 35.1% and 39.2%; across the ten provinces the rate runs from 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
Ahead of most of Alberta’s town libraries on 2 of 3 measures
Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 9,532 visits a day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 3.5 km from Mayliewan
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Mayliewan.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Locations merge two sources, OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, without school, college or hospital libraries.
Questions about the library and civic life in Mayliewan
Does Mayliewan have a public library?
The map shows none in Mayliewan; EPL Castle Downs Branch, in Beaumaris, is the closest.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
Over 2022: 8,578,865 items out on loan, 3,479,257 visits through the door.
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).