Nestled in central Alberta at the crossroads of Highway 13 and Highway 869, Sedgewick sits roughly 83 kilometres east of Camrose. The Canadian Pacific Kansas City railway runs through the community, reflecting the role that rail infrastructure has long played in connecting small Alberta towns to broader markets and supply chains.
According to the 2021 Census of Population, Sedgewick had 761 residents living in 357 of its 421 private dwellings, spread across a land area of 2.71 square kilometres. That works out to a population density of approximately 280.8 people per square kilometre. The town has seen a gradual decline in population over recent census cycles, dropping from 857 residents in 2011 to 811 in 2016, and then to 761 in 2021, representing a change of about 6.2 percent between the 2016 and 2021 counts.