| Albert | |
| Settlement Type: | County |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Established Title: | Established |
| Established Date: | 1845 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 1807.88 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Total: | 29,158 |
| Population Density Km2: | 16.1 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Pop |
| Population Blank1: | 1.1% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 13,111 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Coordinates: | 45.82°N -64.85°W |
| Area Code: | 506 |
Albert County (2016 population 29,158)[1] is New Brunswick's third-youngest county, located on the Western side of the Petitcodiac River on the Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy; the shire town is Hopewell Cape. The county was established in 1845 from parts of Westmorland County and Saint John County, and named after Prince Albert.[2] Since the abolition of county municipal governments in 1967, its best-known use is as a census division.
The mineral albertite was discovered a few miles away in 1849, giving rise to Albert Mines.[3]
There are four municipalities within Albert County (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Status | Area km2 | Population | Parish | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Riverview | Town | 35.45 | 19,667 | Coverdale | |
| Hillsborough | Village | 12.83 | 1,277 | Hillsborough | |
| Riverside-Albert | Village | 3.35 | 350 | Hopewell | |
| Alma | Village | 47.60 | 213 | Alma |
The county's six parishes serve as rural census subdivisions, which do not include the municipalities within them (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Area km2 | Population | municipalities | Unincorporated communities | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Coverdale | 236.04 | 4,466 | Riverview (town) | Colpitts Settlement / Five Points / Grub Road / Lower Coverdale / Lower Turtle Creek / Middlesex / Middle Coverdale / Nixon / Pine Glen / Price / Salisbury Back Road / Stoney Creek / Synton / Turtle Creek / Upper Coverdale | |
| Hillsborough | 304.05 | 1,308 | Hillsborough (village) | Albert Mines / Baltimore / Beech Hill / Berryton / Caledonia Mountain / Dawson Settlement / Edgetts Landing / Isaiah Corner / Osborne Corner / Rosevale / Salem / Shenstone / Steeves Mills / Steevescote / Weldon | |
| Elgin | 519.59 | 892 | Church Hill / Churchs Corner / Elgin / Ferndale / Forest Hill / Goshen / Gowland Mountain / Harrison Settlement / Hillside / Little River / Mapleton / Meadow / Midland / Parkindale / Pleasant Vale / Prosser Brook / Ross Corner | ||
| Hopewell | 149.08 | 647 | Riverside-Albert (village) | Cape Station / Chemical Road / Chester / Curryville / Demoiselle Creek / Hopewell Cape / Hopewell Hill / Lower Cape / McGinleys Corner / Memel Settlement / Mountville / Shepody | |
| Harvey | 277.27 | 333 | Beaver Brook / Brookville / Cape Enrage / Derrys Corner / Germantown / Harvey / Harvey Bank / Little Ridge / Midway / New Horton / New Ireland / Upper New Horton / Waterside / West River | ||
| Alma | 222.62 | 5[4] | Alma (village) | Mitchells Corner / Teahans Corner |
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Albert 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 1806.23km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[5]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Albert County, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 26,105 | 0.2% | 90.24% | 1,995 | 8.1% | 6.90% | 235 | 17.5% | 0.81% | 535 | 30.5% | 1.85% | ||||||||
| 26,135 | 4.0% | 91.41% | 1,845 | 17.1% | 6.45% | 200 | 207.7% | 0.70% | 410 | 16.3% | 1.43% | ||||||||
| 25,130 | 2.0% | 92.19% | 1,575 | 9.4% | 5.78% | 65 | 43.5% | 0.24% | 490 | 78.2% | 1.80% | ||||||||
| 24,640 | 0.1% | 93.09% | 1,440 | 10.8% | 5.44% | 115 | 15.0% | 0.43% | 275 | 44.7% | 1.04% | ||||||||
| 24,665 | n/a | 93.94% | 1,300 | n/a | 4.95% | 100 | n/a | 0.38% | 190 | n/a | 0.72% | ||||||||
Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:[6]
See also: List of historic places in Albert County, New Brunswick.
See main article: List of people from Albert County.