Photo: Joli Rumi · CC BY-SA 4.0Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch is Strathcona’s public library
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Public Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Strathcona among them. 8.8 items per person served went out on loan in 2022. Alberta’s open library statistics stop at 2022, so these are its 2022 figures.
BCivic life#237 of 474 in AlbertaBehind Strathcona’s civic life grade
Civic life in Strathcona grades B: #237 of the 474 towns graded in Alberta. Strathcona 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.
Edmonton mailing addresses hold 1,638 registered charities
There is no count for Strathcona 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.
37.1%
The 2023 survey gives Alberta one volunteering rate for all its towns, 37.1% (between 35.1% and 39.2%), while provinces run from 25.2% at the low end 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.
Some 9,532 visits on an average day
What Edmonton Public Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
Strathcona’s public library
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Strathcona.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Public library locations are taken from OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada inventory, merged where both list one place.
Questions about the library and civic life in Strathcona
Does Strathcona have a public library?
Yes: Edmonton Public Library Strathcona Branch.
How busy is Edmonton Public 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).