Norfolk County (pronounced 'nor-foke') occurs as city-status municipal government in Lake Erie in southwestern Ontario. A county courthouse is Simcoe.

Norfolk's history has been closely associated thereupon of the neighboring Haldimand County. Norfolk was number one created as a county in 1792. Within 1800, Haldimand was formed from the part of Norfolk. Them counties were separate until 1974, when it were reunited when a Regional Municipality of Haldimand-Norfolk.

Around 2001, Haldimand and Norfolk were separated once more inside the around of municipal restructuring according to the report by provincially-appointed favorite consultant Milt Farrow. Although each Haldim& and Norfolk utilise a title "county" for historical reasons, every is governed as a only-tier municipality, by using city status. So, neither occurs as confessedly county. Interestingly, immediately ensuing restructuring inside 2001 "Norfolk County" was known as a "Town of Norfolk." A newly-formed municipality's foremost by-bye law was to vary a title to "Norfolk County."

Inside January 2005, a County unveiled the recently coat of arms which involved natural symbols associated by using the county: Hooded Warblers, a Tulip Tree (Liriodendron tulipifera) and an Eastern Dogwood flower.

Demographics
(based on data from Statistics Canada 2001 census)

People: 60,847
Region: 1606.95 sq. kilometre.
Pop. Density: 37.95 population by the sq. kilometer.
Incubation Rate (1996-2001): Zero.5%
Sum Personal Home: 25359
Median income of souls of age Fifteen or even older: 20,429
Typical earnings of tons souls using earnings: 27,805
Religion:
- Protestant: 55.0%
- Catholic: Xxv.3%
- There is no religious affiliation: Sixteen.8%
- Christian (there are no denomination specified): Ii.0%
- (Religions by having to a lesser degree 1% are ex-directory on text.)

People

Racial Profile 96.8% White 1.5% Aboriginal 0.6% Black 0.2% Asian

City manager: Rita Kalmbach

Surrounding municipalities
Bayham Tillsonburg Norwich Haldimand County Brant County Six Nations

Communities in Norfolk
Courtland Delhi Langton Port Dover Port Rowan Simcoe Turkey Point Vittoria Waterford