Official Name: | Rushoon |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Established Title2: | Incorporated |
Established Date2: | January 18, 1966 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 229 |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 47.3575°N -54.9147°W |
Rushoon is a town located north east of Marystown, Newfoundland and Labrador on the Burin Peninsula of Newfoundland and Labrador. The post office was established there in 1955 and the first postmaster was Ambrose Joseph Miller. It became a Local Government Community on January 18, 1966.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Rushoon had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 5.89km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]