Elgin County Library - Burwell and Elgin County Library - Straffordville are Bayham’s two public libraries

Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Bayham in particular.

C⁺Civic life#490 of 866 in Ontario

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Libraries

Charities

0.8 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Behind Bayham’s civic life grade

Civic life in Bayham grades C+: #490 of the 866 towns graded in Ontario. Two of the three civic life inputs exist for Bayham, enough for a grade: charities and volunteering, but not library visits.

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Civic lifeA character grade: shown, never part of Bayham’s overall grade.

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities0.8 per 1,000 · Ontario towns 1.4 · Canada 1.4 C⁺Volunteering32.1% of residents · all of Ontario, 2023

Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.

Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.

Places to belong

6 registered charities give a Bayham mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 0.8; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. Charities are placed by mailing address, which flatters service towns whose post office serves a region and undercounts suburbs and rural municipalities.

Volunteering

32.1%

No town-level count exists, so the page uses Ontario as a whole: 32.1% volunteered formally in 2023, between 31.0% and 33.2%, while the provinces span 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

2 public libraries in Bayham

In order of distance from the centre of Bayham, as the crow flies.

3.8kmElgin County Library - StraffordvilleDirections →9.9kmElgin County Library - BurwellDirections →

How to read these numbers

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 Bayham

Does Bayham have a public library?

Yes, 2: Elgin County Library - Burwell and Elgin County Library - Straffordville.

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).