Official Name: | Traytown |
Settlement Type: | Town |
Pushpin Map: | Newfoundland |
Pushpin Label Position: | left |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location of Traytown in Newfoundland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Type3: | Census division |
Subdivision Name3: | 7 |
Area Total Km2: | 13.46 |
Population As Of: | 2021 |
Population Total: | 279 |
Population Density Km2: | 20.1 |
Timezone: | Newfoundland Time |
Utc Offset: | -3:30 |
Timezone Dst: | Newfoundland Daylight |
Utc Offset Dst: | -2:30 |
Coordinates: | 48.6611°N -53.9783°W |
Area Code: | 709 |
Blank Name: | Highways |
Traytown is a town in central Newfoundland, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. It is in Division No. 7 on Alexander Bay. Residents of Traytown seek services mainly in the town of Glovertown. Traytown does, however, have its own municipal council and businesses which include the Border Lounge, Whop-D-Doo Hair, K&K Ready Mix and many others. The community also has an outdoor rink and community playground which is maintained by town council as well as its volunteers. The name Traytown came from a surveyor that visited Traytown in the late 19th century. He thought that the landscape resembled a maze and named the town Troytown. This eventually was changed to Traytown over the years.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Traytown had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 13.3km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[1]