Southwold has one public library, Elgin County Library - Shedden

It sits 2 km from the centre of Southwold. Its libraries report as part of a wider system, so there are no figures for Southwold in particular.

C⁺Civic life#490 of 866 in Ontario

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Libraries

Charities

1.6 per 1,000 residents

Civic life grade

Southwold’s civic life grade, input by input

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

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

–Library visitsNo library board of its own B⁻Charities1.6 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

9 registered charities are based in Southwold, by mailing address

Per 1,000 residents that makes 1.6; the median is 1.4 for Ontario towns and 1.4 for Canada’s. 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.

Volunteering

32.1%

For 2023, the provincial survey estimates that 32.1% of people in Ontario volunteered formally (likely 31.0% to 33.2%); among the ten provinces the rate goes from 25.2% to 40.3%.

Statistics Canada, table 45-10-0039.

The libraries

Southwold’s public library

Sorted by straight-line distance from the centre of Southwold.

2kmElgin County Library - SheddenDirections →

How to read these numbers

What this data can and can’t tell you

Library locations. Two sources make the map, OpenStreetMap and a 2020 Statistics Canada list, with academic and private libraries dropped.

Questions about the library and civic life in Southwold

Does Southwold have a public library?

Yes: Elgin County Library - Shedden.

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).