WhyDufferin County, Ontario
WhyDufferin
Discover the opportunity. Build your business. Make it home.
The independent guide to building a business and a life in Dufferin County. We bring together what the County, the eight municipalities, the Board of Trade, the Small Business Enterprise Centre and funders offer, and link you straight to them.
Build a Business
Start, buy, relocate or expand a business here.
Build a Life
Choose a community and put down roots.
Build Connections
Find customers, suppliers and services close to home.
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Dufferin Attraction Engine
Find where your business fits
Our tools match your idea to Dufferin's communities: the opportunity explorer builds a personal report, and the business gaps explorer shows which business types are thin on the ground in each community (indications from open map data, not market studies), and the housing opportunity explorer gathers locations, ideas and partners for attainable housing.
Dufferin at a glance
What local businesses say
In the Dufferin Board of Trade's 2025 business survey (125 responses), the top drivers of Dufferin's economic growth were:
Partners, not competitors
We aggregate and link. These offices deliver the services, so contact them directly.