Photo: Darren Kirby · CC BY-SA 3.0No public library stands in Queen Alexandra: the closest, Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch, is 1.1 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Queen Alexandra among them. Its borrowers took out 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 AlbertaBehind Queen Alexandra’s civic life grade
Queen Alexandra gets a B for civic life, #237 of 474 towns graded in Alberta. All three civic life inputs exist for Queen Alexandra: 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 give a Edmonton mailing address
There is no count for Queen Alexandra 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
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.
About 9,532 visits a day
The year 2022 at Edmonton Library, in the library’s own counts.
The nearest library is 1.1 km from Queen Alexandra
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Queen Alexandra.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Only public libraries are mapped: OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s 2020 list, with school and university libraries removed.
Questions about the library and civic life in Queen Alexandra
Does Queen Alexandra have a public library?
There isn’t one in Queen Alexandra; people there use libraries such as Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch, in Strathcona.
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).