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. Thames Centre includes the Degree Confluence of 43N 81W.

Communities

Communities in the township include: Avon, Belton, Cherry Grove, Crampton, Cobble Hill, Derwent, Devizes, Dorchester, Evelyn, Fanshawe Lake, Friendly Corners, Gladstone, Harrietsville, Kelly Station, Mossley, Nilestown, Oliver, Putnam, Salmonville, Silvermoon, Thorndale (mayor - John Fluttert), Three Bridges, and Wellburn.

Dorchester

Dorchester is the residential and commercial core of the township.

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Thames Centre 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.

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Communities

Dorchester

Demographics

See also

References

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