| Official Name: | Hampden |
| Settlement Type: | Town |
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland#Canada |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Hampden in Newfoundland##Location of Hampden in Canada |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Established Title2: | The Town of Hampden |
| Established Date2: | December 1959 |
| Leader Title: | Mayor |
| Leader Name: | Calvin Wilton |
| Leader Title1: | Member of the Newfoundland & Labrador House of Assembly |
| Leader Name1: | Andrew Furey (LIB) |
| Leader Title2: | Members of the Canadian House of Commons |
| Leader Name2: | Gudie Hutchings (LIB) |
| Area Total Km2: | 32.9 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 439 |
| Timezone: | Newfoundland Time |
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
| Timezone Dst: | Newfoundland Daylight |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
| Coordinates: | 49.533°N -56.867°W |
| Elevation M: | 100 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal Code |
| Postal Code: | A0K 2Y0 |
| Area Code: | 709 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
| Named For: | John Hampden |
Hampden is a town in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. The town has a population of 429. Two islands can be seen from the shore of Hampden, Granby Island and Millers Island. The latter is much closer to the town and is the host of a tuberculosis grave-site.[1]
Hampden was named after English politician John Hampden.
Many communities were resettled into Hampden after the island was brought into Canadian Confederation on 31 March 1949, where the Joey Smallwood government pushed a resettlement plan that involved over 300 villages and 28,000 people.[2]
Hampden was and still is to this day a logging and lumber town. Over the years many companies cut logs for lumber mills and pulpwood for paper mills. Thousands of cords of wood was boomed to the Bottom(furthest point south in White Bay) at an early time (1920s - 1930s) it was debarked and loaded aboard ships for England for the International Paper Company of Newfoundland. Later (1940s - 1970s) it was loaded on to trucks and brought to the Humber River at Riverside where it was dumped into the river and floated down the river to the Bowater’s Paper Mill in Corner Brook.
To this day Hampden still relies of the logging industry as it main source of employment, Burton’s Cove Logging and Lumber Limited is the largest employer in the White Bay South area, employing forty plus employees year round.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Hampden had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 32.99km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]