| Official Name: | Come By Chance |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Come By Chance in Newfoundland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
| Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
| Subdivision Name3: | 1 |
| Area Land Km2: | 39.7 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 208 |
| Population Density Km2: | 5.74 |
| Timezone: | Newfoundland Time |
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
| Timezone Dst: | Newfoundland Daylight |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
| Coordinates: | 47.85°N -112°W |
| Area Code: | 709 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Come By Chance is a town on the isthmus of the Avalon Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division 1 on Placentia Bay.
Located in this town is Newfoundland's only oil refinery, the Come By Chance Refinery operated by North Atlantic Refining, which has a capacity of . The associated port was Canada's fifth largest port by cargo tonnage loaded and unloaded in 2011. It handled 27.4 million metric tonnes, of which 23.7 million tonnes was crude petroleum.[1]
The town's name is believed to be the result of explorers coming upon a Beothuk path by chance, and naming the location after the unexpected discovery.[2]
Come By Chance was chosen as the location for a Canadian cottage hospital in 1936.
In February 2018, a group of oil refinery workers split a Canadian lottery winning of $60,000,000.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Come By Chance had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 39.55km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4] [5]