Tucked into the northern Alberta landscape near the junction of Highway 18 and Highway 2, Clyde sits north of Edmonton and east of Westlock. The village was incorporated in 1914 and takes its name from George D. Clyde, a local entrepreneur who also served as the community’s first postmaster. It is served educationally by Pembina Hills Public Schools, a school division formed in 1995 through the amalgamation of three separate school districts.
Clyde covers a land area of 1.28 square kilometres and recorded a population of 415 residents in the 2021 Census of Population, living in 178 of its 197 total private dwellings. That figure represented a modest decline of 3.5% from the 2016 census, which counted 430 residents. The 2016 count itself was a notable drop from the 503 people recorded in 2011, reflecting a 14.5% decrease over that five-year span. At the time of the 2021 census, the village had a population density of approximately 324 people per square kilometre.