Overlanders has no public library of its own; the nearest is Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee, 1.3 km away
Overlanders 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 AlbertaWhat Overlanders’s civic life grade weighs
With a B, Overlanders ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Overlanders 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.
1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Overlanders on its own: the charities are those of all of Edmonton. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Alberta town has 1.3 and Canada’s 1.4. 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%
Formal volunteering is measured only for the province: 37.1% of Alberta’s people in 2023, give or take (35.1% to 39.2%), with the provinces between 25.2% and 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.
About 9,532 visits a day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.3 km from Overlanders
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Overlanders.
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 Overlanders
Does Overlanders have a public library?
Not within Overlanders itself: the closest is Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee, in Rundle Heights.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
For 2022 it reported 8,578,865 loans and 3,479,257 in-person visits.
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).