Photo: Carlos Duarte Do Nascimento from Toronto, Canada · CC BY 2.0The nearest public library to Westmount is Edmonton Public Library Woodcroft (Westmount) Branch, 1.5 km away
The library figures on this page are Edmonton’s: Edmonton Library serves all 972,223 people of the city, Westmount 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 AlbertaWestmount’s civic life grade, input by input
With a B, Westmount ranks #237 of 474 Alberta towns on civic life. Westmount 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 Westmount 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. 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%
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
Measured per person served against the 118 town libraries of Alberta’s 2022 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 9,532 visits a day
What Edmonton Library counted in 2022, as the library reported it.
The nearest library is 1.5 km from Westmount
Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Westmount.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. The locations come from OpenStreetMap and from Statistics Canada’s cultural facilities list of 2020, public libraries only.
Questions about the library and civic life in Westmount
Does Westmount have a public library?
There isn’t one in Westmount; people there use libraries such as Edmonton Public Library Woodcroft (Westmount) Branch, in Woodcroft.
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).