Photo: Own work · CC BY-SA 3.0McKernan has no public library of its own; the nearest is Herbert T. Coutts Education Library, 1.5 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, McKernan among them. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. The figures are for 2022, the latest year Alberta has published openly.
BCivic lifeGraded on library visits, charities and volunteeringBehind McKernan’s civic life grade
McKernan’s civic life grade is B. All three civic life inputs exist for McKernan: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
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 McKernan 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.
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.
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.
Some 9,532 visits on an average day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 1.5 km from McKernan
In order of distance from the centre of McKernan, as the crow flies.
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 McKernan
Does McKernan have a public library?
Not in McKernan: the nearest public library is Herbert T. Coutts Education Library, in Garneau.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
It counted 3,479,257 in-person visits and lent 8,578,865 items 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).