Pensons Arm | |
Settlement Type: | Local service district / designated place |
Pushpin Relief: | yes |
Pushpin Map: | Canada Newfoundland and Labrador#Canada |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Pensons Arm |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Newfoundland and Labrador |
Subdivision Type2: | Region |
Subdivision Name2: | Labrador |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 10 |
Subdivision Type4: | Census subdivision |
Subdivision Name4: | B |
Government Type: | Unincorporated |
Leader Title1: | Governing body |
Established Title: | Established |
Area Land Km2: | 3.23 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 43 |
Timezone: | AST |
Utc Offset: | −04:00 |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Utc Offset Dst: | −03:00 |
Coordinates: | 52.686°N -55.892°W |
Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
Area Code: | 709 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Pensons Arm (also known as Pinsent's Arm) is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Pensons Arm, is a coastal village in Labrador, 20 km southeast of Charlottetown. It has a population of 43 in the 2021 census.[1]
Pensons Arm is in Labrador within Subdivision B of Division No. 10.[2] Topographically it is surrounded by St. Michaels Bay, an inlet of the Labrador Sea to the north and Scrammy Bay to the east.[3]
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pensons Arm recorded a population of 61 living in 20 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 53. With a land area of 3.23km2, it had a population density of in 2016.[4]
Pensons Arm is a local service district (LSD)[5] that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community.[6] The chair of the LSD committee is Harrison Campbell.[5]