Southwest Middlesex

Southwest Middlesex is a municipality in Middlesex [County, Ontario], Canada.
The restructured municipality of Southwest Middlesex was incorporated on January 1, 2001. This amalgamation joined the Village of Glencoe and the Village of Wardsville with the Townships of Ekfrid and Mosa. Southwest Middlesex had a population of 5,723 in the Canada 2016 Census. Southwest Middlesex is located in the southwest corner of Middlesex County.

Communities

The township includes the communities of Appin, Ekfrid, Glencoe, Lewis Corners, Macksville, Mayfair, Newbury Station, North Appin Station, North Ekfrid, North Glencoe Station, Riverside, Strathburn, Tait’s Corners, Wardsville and Woodgreen. It surrounds, but does not include, the independent village of Newbury. The township administrative offices are located in Glencoe.
Wardsville was the site of the Battle of Longwoods during the War of 1812.

Demographics

In the 2021 [Canadian census|2021 Census of Population] conducted by Statistics Canada, Southwest Middlesex had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of. With a land area of, it had a population density of in 2021.