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Libraries · Rundle Heights

Rundle Heights’s public library is Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee

Edmonton Public Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, Rundle Heights among them. 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 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
Libraries
1
Charities
1,638
1.3 per 1,000 residents
Civic life grade

Behind Rundle Heights’s civic life grade

With a B, Rundle Heights ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Rundle Heights has every input a civic life grade uses: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the province’s volunteering rate.

B
Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Rundle Heights’s overall grade.

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

1,638 registered charities give a Edmonton mailing address

There is no count for Rundle Heights 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. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

37.1%

The whole province shares one estimate: 37.1% of people in Alberta volunteered formally in 2023 (between 35.1% and 39.2%), where the ten provinces run from 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

Each figure is per person served, set against 118 town libraries in Alberta’s statistics for 2022.

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

About 9,532 visits a day

Everything counted at Edmonton Public Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.

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
The libraries

Rundle Heights’s public library

In order of distance from the centre of Rundle Heights, as the crow flies.

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

  • Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.

Questions about the library and civic life in Rundle Heights

Does Rundle Heights have a public library?

Yes: Edmonton Public Library - Abbotsfield - Penny McKee.

How busy is Edmonton Public 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).