Photo: Jfvoll · CC BY-SA 4.0Each person London public library serves borrows 5.5 items, more than at 77% of Ontario’s town libraries
London public library serves the whole of London, so the library figures on this page are the city’s: 439,385 people, Southcrest among them. It counted 4.1 in-person visits per person served in 2024. Visits here are a typical week’s count times 52, Ontario’s method, so read them as an estimate.
C+Civic life#605 of 866 in OntarioBehind Southcrest’s civic life grade
Southcrest gets a C+ for civic life, #605 of 866 towns graded in Ontario. All three civic life inputs exist for Southcrest: library visits per resident, charities per 1,000 residents and the provincial volunteering rate.
Informal groups and mutual aid go uncounted.
Sources: provincial statistics, the CRA, Statistics Canada.
London mailing addresses hold 633 registered charities
There is no count for Southcrest on its own: the charities are those of all of London. It works out to 1.3 per 1,000 residents, where the typical Ontario town has 1.4 and Canada’s 1.4. The CRA files each charity under its mailing address, so a service town collects its region’s charities and a suburb or rural municipality few.
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.
Ahead of most of Ontario’s town libraries on all 3 measures
Per person served, against the 195 town libraries in Ontario’s 2024 statistics.
Town libraries only; regional systems left out.
About 34,310 visits in a typical week
The year 2024 at London public library, in the library’s own counts.
The closest is 2.4 km from Southcrest
In order of distance from the centre of Southcrest, as the crow flies.
What this data can and can’t tell you
- Library locations. OpenStreetMap and Statistics Canada’s list of cultural facilities (2020), merged; school, college, hospital and private libraries are left out.
Questions about the library and civic life in Southcrest
Does Southcrest have a public library?
Not in Southcrest: the nearest public library is London Public Library - Landon, in South London.
How busy is London public library?
It counted 1,784,120 in-person visits and lent 2,404,067 items in 2024.
Library statistics: Ontario Public Library Statistics, 2024. 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).