| Pointe-Verte | |
| Official Name: |
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| Settlement Type: | Dissolved Village |
| Pushpin Map: | New Brunswick |
| Pushpin Label Position: | left |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within New Brunswick. |
| Coordinates: | 47.85°N -111°W |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
| Subdivision Type4: | Town |
| Subdivision Name1: | New Brunswick |
| Subdivision Name2: | Gloucester |
| Subdivision Name3: | Beresford |
| Subdivision Name4: | Belle-Baie |
| Established Title: | Village |
| Established Date: | 1966 |
| Area Land Km2: | 13.76 |
| Elevation M: | 11 |
| Elevation Ft: | 36 |
| Population Total: | 865 |
| Population As Of: | 2021 |
| Population Footnotes: | [1] |
| Population Density Km2: | 62.9 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change 2016–21 |
| Population Blank1: | 2.4% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Dwellings |
| Population Blank2: | 433 |
| Postal Code Type: | Postal code |
| Postal Code: | E8J |
| Area Code: | 506 |
| Pushpin Label: | Pointe-Verte |
| Utc Offset: | -4 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -3 |
| Blank Name: | Highways |
Pointe-Verte is a community in the town of Belle-Baie in Gloucester County, New Brunswick. It was a village from 1966 to 2023, when it was amalgamated with surrounding municipalities to form the town of Belle-Baie.
On January 1, 2023, Pointe-Verte amalgamated with Beresford, Nigadoo, Petit-Rocher, and all or part of ten local service districts to form the new town of Belle-Baie.[2] [3] The community's name remains in official use.[4]
Located on Chaleur Bay 30 km north of Bathurst, the village's main industry is lobster and scallop fishing, as well as forestry.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pointe-Verte had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 13.76km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]
| Canada Census Mother Tongue - Pointe-Verte, New Brunswick | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Census | Total | ||||||||||||||||||
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | ||||||
| 720 | 8.28% | 85.21% | 115 | 35.29% | 13.61% | 5 | 66.66% | 0.59% | 5 | 0.0% | 0.05% | ||||||||
| 785 | 9.24% | 88.70% | 85 | 6.25% | 9.6% | 15 | 50.0% | 1.69% | 5 | 0.0% | 0.5% | ||||||||
| 865 | 2.8% | 90.57% | 80 | 45.5% | 8.38% | 10 | 0.0% | 1.05% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 890 | 6.8% | 93.19% | 55 | 26.7% | 5.76% | 10 | 0.0% | 1.05% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 955 | 11.2% | 91.83% | 75 | 66.7% | 7.21% | 10 | n/a% | 0.96% | 0 | 0.0% | 0.00% | ||||||||
| 1,075 | n/a | 95.98% | 45 | n/a | 4.02% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | 0 | n/a | 0.00% | ||||||||
See main article: List of people from Gloucester County, New Brunswick.