Rural Zorra

Rural Zorra covers almost all of the township, about 52,700 hectares of rolling farmland, the largest countryside in Oxford. Harrington and Kintore are small villages among the farms, and Lakeside, Uniondale, Medina, Dickson's Corners, Braemar, Brooksdale, Banner, Golspie and Youngsville are hamlets. In Harrington, the Harrington Grist Mill has been restored as a working museum beside a pond, and Lakeside sits on Sunova Lake.

Zorra was settled from the 1830s by Scottish families, who grew to nearly a quarter of the county's people. The novelist Ralph Connor and the missionary George Leslie Mackay both came from Zorra. In 1975 East Nissouri, West Zorra and North Oxford townships joined to form the Township of Zorra, which had 8,628 people in 2021, up 6% since 2016.

The 2021 census counted 3,162 homes in Zorra. Leaving out Thamesford and Embro, the countryside, its villages and its hamlets had about 1,910 homes, more than nine in ten of them single detached houses. Nearly half were built in 1960 or earlier and about a quarter between 1961 and 1980. About one in six were built between 1981 and 2000, and about one in ten in 2001 or later.

Highway 2 and Highway 401 cross the south of the township toward London and Woodstock, and Oxford Roads 6 and 17 link Embro and the north with Woodstock. Thamesford and Embro are a short drive from most of the countryside.

The Harrington Grist Mill is being restored by the Harrington Community Club as a working museum, and Harrington Hall, a former church beside the Upper Thames River Conservation Authority's pond, holds a branch of the Oxford County Library. Harrington Community Park on Road 96 has a lit ball diamond and a playground. Kintore has soccer fields, Lakeside sits on Sunova Lake, and the Thamesford pool and the arenas in Thamesford and Embro are close by.

• A.J. Baker Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the north-west, including Kintore and 13th Line, on 19th Line in Kintore.
• Zorra Highland Park Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public school for the north-east, including Harrington, Golspie and 45th Line, near Embro.
• Thamesford Public School and Laurie Hawkins Public School — JK to Grade 8. The public schools for the south, including Banner (Thamesford) and Road 58 (Laurie Hawkins, in Ingersoll).
• Ingersoll District Collegiate Institute — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for the south and west, on Alma Street in Ingersoll.
• Woodstock Collegiate Institute — Grades 9 to 12. The public secondary school for the north-east, on Riddell Street in Woodstock, with French immersion.
• Roch Carrier French Immersion Public School — Grades 1 to 8 in French immersion. The public French immersion school for the north, in Woodstock.
• St. Jude's Catholic School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary school for the south and west, on Caffyn Street in Ingersoll.
• St. Michael's Catholic School and St. Patrick's Catholic School — JK to Grade 8. The Catholic elementary schools for Golspie, in Woodstock.
• Holy Family French Immersion Catholic School — SK to Grade 8 in French immersion. The Catholic French immersion school for all of Oxford, on Oxford Street in Woodstock.
• St. Mary's Catholic High School — Grades 9 to 12. The Catholic secondary school for the township, on Juliana Drive in Woodstock.