Elgin County

Elgin County is a county of the Canadian province of Ontario with a 2016 population of 50,069. Its population centres are St. Thomas, Aylmer, Port Stanley, Belmont, Dutton and West Lorne. The county seat is St. Thomas, which is separated from the county but within its geographic boundary.

Subdivisions
Elgin County is composed of seven incorporated municipalities (in order of population):
 * Municipality of Central Elgin
 * Township of Malahide
 * Town of Aylmer
 * Municipality of Bayham
 * Municipality of West Elgin
 * Township of Southwold
 * Municipality of Dutton/Dunwich

The City of St. Thomas is geographically within the boundaries of Elgin County and part of the Elgin census division, but is separated from county administration.

Historical townships
Originally Elgin County was once part of Middlesex County, which was reorganized as the United Counties of Middlesex and Elgin in 1851. Elgin was named after Lord Elgin, who was Governor-General of Canada at the time.

The County was separated from Middlesex in September 1853.



Demographics
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Elgin County had a population of $94,752$ living in $37,278$ of its $38,889$ total private dwellings, a change of NaN% from its 2016 population of $88,978$. With a land area of 1878.57 km2, it had a population density of in 2021.

Notable persons from Elgin County

 * Horace Harvey - Chief Justice of Alberta
 * John Kenneth Galbraith - Canadian/American economist
 * Mitchell Hepburn - Premier of Ontario
 * Rachel McAdams - Actress
 * Joe Thornton - NHL - Professional Hockey Player
 * Bo Horvat - NHL - Professional Hockey Player