Oxford County, Ontario

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Oxford County
Regional municipality (upper-tier)
County of Oxford
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Motto(s):  Growing Stronger, Together
Map showing Oxford County location in Ontario
Coordinates: 42°58′N 80°48′W / 42.967°N 80.800°W / 42.967; -80.800
Country	Canada
Province	Ontario
Incorporated	1850
Seat	Woodstock
Area [1]
• Land	2,036.61 km2 (786.34 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	121,781
• Density	59.7/km2 (155/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (Eastern (EDT))
Website	www.oxfordcounty.ca

Oxford County is a regional municipality in the Canadian province of Ontario. Highway 401 runs east–west through the centre of the county, creating an urban industrial corridor with more than half the county's population, spanning 25 km between the Toyota auto assembly plant in Woodstock and the CAMI General Motors auto assembly plant in Ingersoll. The local economy is otherwise dominated by agriculture, especially the dairy industry.

The Oxford County regional seat is in Woodstock. Oxford County has been a regional municipality since 2001 but has retained the word "county" in its name. It has a two-tier municipal government structure, with the lower-tier municipalities being the result of a merger in 1975 of a larger number of separate municipalities that previously existed before the restructuring.^[2] It also comprises a single Statistics Canada census division, and a single electoral division for federal and provincial elections for which the precise boundaries have been revised from time to time. For part of its history, it was divided into two ridings, Oxford North, for federal and provincial elections, and Oxford South, for federal and provincial elections, for each of which see their own pages. Oxford County had its own school board until 1998, when it was merged into the Thames Valley District School Board. It had its own Health Unit until 2018, when it was merged into the Southwestern Public Health Unit.^[3]