| Official Name: | La Poile |
| Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
| Pushpin Label Position: | right |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Total: | 61 |
| Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
| Coordinates: | 47.685°N -58.395°W |
La Poile is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. It is on La Poile Bay. The community is inaccessible by road and is served by a ferry via a port in Rose Blanche.[1] [2] [3] [4]
The town mainly works in lobster fishing. As of the 2021 census, the population is 61 people. The community has a school offering grades K-9 and a small store. There is an Anglican church which offers services once a month. Health care is limited to a first responder and a visiting doctor who comes once a month, weather permitting.
The town was the subject of an episode of Viceland's Abandoned.[5] There is only one student in the local school. The last town-wide vote in 2017 did not have enough support for the residents to accept provincial money to leave the settlement under the resettlement program.[6]
La Poile is in Newfoundland within Subdivision I of Division No. 3.[7]
As a designated place in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, La Poile recorded a population of 61 living in 33 of its 47 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 87.[8] With a land area of 1.46km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[9]
La Poile is a local service district (LSD)[10] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[11] The chair of the LSD committee is Monford Organ.[10]