| Official Name: | St. Walburg |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Saskatchewan |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | George Prudat |
| Leader Title1: | Administrator |
| Leader Name1: | Shiloh Bronken |
| Leader Title2: | MLA Constituency of Meadow Lake |
| Leader Title3: | MP Battlefords—Lloydminster |
| Leader Name3: | Rosemarie Falk |
| Established Title: | Post office Founded |
| Established Date: | 1915 |
| Established Title2: | Incorporated (Village) |
| Established Title3: | Incorporated (Town) |
| Area Total Km2: | 2.12 |
| Population As Of: | 2011 |
| Population Total: | 716 |
| Population Density Km2: | 338.0 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | National Population Rank (Out of 5,008) |
| Timezone: | Central standard time (CST) |
| Utc Offset: | −6 |
| Coordinates: | 53.6335°N -109.2006°W |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | S0M 2T0 |
| Area Code: | 306 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Blank Info: | Highway 26 |
St. Walburg is a town in west-central Saskatchewan's prairie region on Highway 26. St. Walburg is surrounded by the Rural Municipality of Frenchman Butte No. 501. The Bronson Provincial Forest is about to the north.
The community is named for the wife of the first postmaster, but also to honour Saint Walpurga, an 8th century English nun educated by the Benedictines, who was canonized for a life dedicated to evangelical work among the German people.
The town and surrounding area were originally settled by Germans between the 1910s and 1930s, with a few Polish, Ukrainian and French settlers arriving later.
The Canadian Northern Railway (CNoR) continued the extension of its northwest branch line from North Battleford, reaching St. Walburg in 1919.[1] This caused a boom in the area, with many homesteaders arriving within months, now able to deliver their production to the grain elevators at St. Walburg. The branch had served Hamlin, Prince, Meota (1910 extension), Cavalier, Vawn, Edam, Mervin, Turtleford (1914 extension), Cleeves, Spruce Lake and St. Walburg, with a fork to Paradise Hill and Frenchman Butte.[1] [2] Later the rail line and the Saskatchewan Highway 26 ran beside each other from Prince to St. Walburg. The Canadian National Railway abandoned the entire branch line in 2005, when the remaining grain elevators closed.[3] The line was officially abandoned in 2008.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, St. Walburg had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 2.02km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
The main industries are grain and cattle farming. The oil and natural gas industries have become increasingly important in the area.