| Gloucester | |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1826 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 4,743.67 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Total: | 78,444 |
| Population Density Km2: | 16.5 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2011-2016 |
| Population Blank1: | 1.9% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 38,789 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Area Code: | 506 |
Gloucester County (2016 population 78,444) is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada.[2] Fishing, mining and forestry are the major industries in the county. The eastern section of the county is known for its Acadian culture. The county is named for Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.
There are nineteen municipalities within the county (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Designation | Area km2 | Population | Parish | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bathurst | City | 92.04 | 11,897 | Bathurst | |
| Tracadie-Sheila | Town (dissolved) | 24.65 | 5,171 | Saumarez | |
| Beresford | Town | 19.41 | 4,288 | Beresford | |
| Caraquet | Town | 68.35 | 4,248 | Caraquet | |
| Shippagan | Town | 10.02 | 2,580 | Shippagan | |
| Petit-Rocher | Village | 4.52 | 1,897 | Beresford | |
| Belledune | Village | 189.47 | 1,417 | Beresford | |
| Bas-Caraquet | Village | 31.01 | 1,305 | Caraquet | |
| Lamèque | Town | 12.51 | 1,285 | Shippagan | |
| Bertrand | Village | 57.44 | 1,166 | Caraquet | |
| Nigadoo | Village | 7.65 | 963 | Beresford | |
| Grande-Anse | Village | 24.33 | 899 | New Bandon | |
| Pointe-Verte | Village | 13.79 | 886 | Beresford | |
| Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël | Village | 15.90 | 879 | Shippagan | |
| Le Goulet | Village | 5.49 | 793 | Shippagan | |
| Saint-Isidore | Village | 22.94 | 764 | Saint-Isidore | |
| Paquetville | Village | 9.26 | 720 | Paquetville | |
| Saint-Léolin | Village | 19.73 | 647 | New Bandon | |
| Maisonnette | Village | 12.90 | 495 | New Bandon |
There is one First Nations reservation in Gloucester County (listed with 2016 population):
The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Area km2 | Population | Municipalities | Unincorporated communities | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saumarez | 326.78 | 6,618 | Tracadie-Sheila (town) | Benoit / Charnisay / Commeau / Ferguson Point / Gauvreau / Haut-Sheila / Leech / Little Gaspereau / Losier Settlement / Petit-Tracadie / Pointe-à-Bouleau / Pont-Lafrance / Rivière-à-la-truite / Saint Irénée and Alderwood / Saint-Isidore Station / Saint-Pons / Saumarez / St. Pierre / Tracadie Beach / Val-Comeau | |
| Beresford | 456.86 | 6,248 | Beresford (town) Petit-Rocher (village) Belledune (village) Nigadoo (village) Pointe-Verte (village) | Alcida and Dauversière / Dempsey Settlement / Devereaux / Dunlop / Free Grant / LaPlante / Lincour / Madran / Massabielle / Nicholas-Denys / Robertville / Saint-Laurent / Sainte-Louise / Sainte-Rosette / Sormany / St. George / Tremblay / Val-Michaud | |
| Shippegan | 208.08 | 4,800 | Shippagan (town) Lamèque (town) Le Goulet (village) Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël (village) | Cap-Bateau / Chiasson-Savoy / Coteau Road / Haut-Lamèque / Haut-Shippagan / Herring Point / Miscou Centre / Miscou Harbour / Miscou Lighthouse / Miscou Plains / Petite-Lamèque / Petite-Rivière-de-l'lle / Petit-Shippagan / Pigeon Hill / Pointe-Alexandre / Pointe-Brûlé / Pointe-Canot / Sainte-Cécile / Shippagan Portage / Wilson Point | |
| Bathurst | 1504.87 | 4,797 | Bathurst (city) Pabineau 11 (reservation) | Bartibog Station / Bathurst Mines / Big Antler / Big Moose / Big River / Blue Mountain Settlement / Bruce / Brunswick Mines / Chamberlain Settlement / Goodwin Mill / Gloucester Junction / Hachey Siding / Lawson Brook Siding / Miller Brook / Nepisiguit Junction / North Tetagouche / Ottawa Road / Pitre Road / Red Pine / Rio Grande / Russell / Salmon Beach / South Tetagouche / Tetagouche Hill / Upper Rosehill | |
| Inkerman | 107.56 | 2,366 | Boudreau Road / Cowans Creek / Evangeline / Four Roads / Gaspereau / Haché Road / Haut Pokemouche / Inkerman / Inkerman Ferry / Landry / Maltampec / Pokemouche / Pokemouche Junction / Sainte-Rose-Gloucester / Six Roads | ||
| Paquetville | 220.51 | 2,329 | Paquetville (village) | Burnsville / Notre-Dame-des-Érables / Petit-Paquetville / Rang-Saint-Georges / Saint-Amateur / Trudel / Val-Doucet | |
| Allardville | 654.69 | 2,032 | Allardville / Allardville East / Veniot / Bear Landing / Beaubois / Butte-d'Or / Daulnay / Goodwin Mill / Jeanne-Mance / Saint-Sauveur | ||
| Saint-Isidore | 173.25 | 1,361 | Saint-Isidore (village) | Bois-Blanc / Bois-Gagnon / Boishébert / Duguayville / Hacheyville / Haut-Saint-Isidore / Haut Tilley Road / Pokemouche Landing / Pont-Landry / Spruce Brook / Tilley Road | |
| Caraquet | 109.97 | 1,337 | Caraquet (town) Bas-Caraquet (village) Bertrand (village) | Blanchard Settlement / Caraquet Island / Haut-Saint-Simon / Marsoliau / Pokesudie / Saint-Simon / Saint-Simon Centre | |
| New Bandon | 359.11 | 1,214 | Grande-Anse (village) Maisonnette (village) Saint-Léolin (village) | Anse-Bleue / Bertrand Station / Black Rock / Canobie / Clifton / Dugas / Janeville / Johnson / Lobster Beach / New Bandon-Salmon Beach / Pokeshaw / Rocheville / Springfield / Stonehaven / Village-des-Poirier / Village-Saint-Paul / Waterloo Settlement |
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gloucester County had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 4734.3km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Gloucester County, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 64,890 | 1.0% | 84.20% | 10,795 | 2.8% | 14.01% | 810 | 8.0% | 1.05% | 220 | 44.3% | 0.28% | ||||||||
| 64,270 | 1.4% | 84.00% | 11,105 | 0.5% | 14.51% | 745 | 19.2% | 0.97% | 395 | 41.5% | 0.52% | ||||||||
| 65,210 | 4.7% | 83.95% | 11,165 | 8.9% | 14.37% | 625 | 26.0% | 0.80% | 675 | 206.8% | 0.87% | ||||||||
| 68,440 | 5.0% | 83.71% | 12,255 | 9.5% | 14.99% | 845 | 8.3% | 1.03% | 220 | 6.4% | 0.27% | ||||||||
| 72,060 | n/a | 83.19% | 13,545 | n/a | 15.64% | 780 | n/a | 0.90% | 235 | n/a | 0.27% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:[4]
See also: List of historic places in Gloucester County, New Brunswick.
See main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick.