Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainThe nearest public library to Dutch Settlement is Elmsdale Branch, Colchester-East Hants Public Library, 11 km away
The next is Sackville Public Library (Lower Sackville), 17 km away. Visits and loans aren’t published as open data in Nova Scotia, so this page has none for Dutch Settlement.
B−Civic life#53 of 88 in Nova ScotiaWhat Dutch Settlement’s civic life grade weighs
With a B−, Dutch Settlement ranks #53 of 88 Nova Scotia towns on civic life. Dutch Settlement has charities and volunteering for a civic life grade, though not library visits, and two of the three are enough.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
570 registered charities give a Halifax mailing address
There is no count for Dutch Settlement on its own: the charities are those of all of Halifax. It works out to 1.1 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Nova Scotia town has 1.1 and Canada’s 1.4. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.
37.0%
One figure covers all of Nova Scotia: in 2023, 37.0% of its people gave time to an organization (between 34.3% and 39.8%), against a provincial range of 25.2% to 40.3%.
Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.
The closest is 11 km from Dutch Settlement
Closest first, each distance a straight line from the centre of Dutch Settlement.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. Statistics Canada’s 2020 facilities list and OpenStreetMap supply the points; libraries of schools, colleges and hospitals are not shown.
Questions about the library and civic life in Dutch Settlement
Does Dutch Settlement have a public library?
None is mapped in Dutch Settlement; the nearest is Elmsdale Branch, Colchester-East Hants Public Library, in Enfield.
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).