Photo: Johntwrl · CC BY-SA 3.0West Jasper Place has no public library of its own; the nearest is Jasper Place Branch Library, 1.6 km away
Edmonton Library serves the whole of Edmonton, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 972,223 people, West Jasper Place 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 AlbertaWhat West Jasper Place’s civic life grade weighs
With a B, West Jasper Place ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. All three civic life inputs exist for West Jasper Place: 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.
Edmonton mailing addresses hold 1,638 registered charities
There is no count for West Jasper Place 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. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
37.1%
Statistics Canada puts formal volunteering in Alberta at 37.1% in 2023, somewhere between 35.1% and 39.2%, for every town in the province alike; provinces range from 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
Everything counted at Edmonton Library in 2022: visits, loans and cards.
The closest is 1.6 km from West Jasper Place
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of West Jasper Place.
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 West Jasper Place
Does West Jasper Place have a public library?
None is mapped in West Jasper Place; the nearest is Jasper Place Branch Library, in Meadowlark Park.
How busy is Edmonton Library?
People made 3,479,257 visits in person and borrowed 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).