| West Hants | |
| Official Name: | West Hants Regional Municipality Municipality of the District of West Hants (1879-2020) Region of Windsor and West Hants Municipality (2020) |
| Settlement Type: | Regional municipality |
| Motto: | Windsor/West Hants Together |
| Mapsize: | 275px |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | Canada |
| Subdivision Type1: | Province |
| Subdivision Name1: | Nova Scotia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Hants |
| Seat Type: | Electoral Districts Federal |
| Seat: | Kings—Hants |
| Parts Type: | Provincial |
| Parts: | Hants West |
| Government Type: | West Hants Municipal Council |
| Leader Title: | Municipal Seat |
| Leader Name: | Windsor |
| Leader Title1: | Mayor |
| Leader Name1: | Abraham Zebian |
| Established Title: | Incorporated |
| Established Date: | April 17, 1879 |
| Established Title2: | Amalgamated |
| Established Date2: | April 1, 2020 |
| Established Title3: | Name change |
| Established Date3: | October 6, 2020 |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Land Km2: | 1244.09 |
| Population As Of: | 2016 |
| Population Total: | 15368 |
| Population Density Km2: | 12.4 |
| Population Blank1 Title: | Change |
| Population Blank1: | 0.3% |
| Population Blank2 Title: | Census ranking |
| Population Blank2: | 275 of 4,870 |
| Timezone: | AST |
| Utc Offset: | −04:00 |
| Timezone Dst: | ADT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | −03:00 |
| Coordinates: | 44.9667°N -70°W |
| Area Code: | 902 |
| Blank Name: | Dwellings |
| Blank Info: | 6,101 |
| Blank1 Name: | Median Income* |
| Blank1 Info: | $46,036 CAD |
| Footnotes: |
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West Hants, officially named the West Hants Regional Municipality, is a regional municipality in Hants County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
It occupies the western half of Hants County, running from the Minas Basin to the boundary with Halifax County, sharing this boundary with the Municipality of the District of East Hants.
The Municipality of the District of West Hants amalgamated with Windsor on April 1, 2020, becoming the Region of Windsor and West Hants Municipality.[2] It was renamed as West Hants Regional Municipality on October 6, 2020.[3]
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, the West Hants Regional Municipality had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1250.5km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[4]
| Census | Population | Change (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | 15,368 | 0.3% | |
| 2011[6] | 14,165 | 2.1% | |
| 2006[7] [8] | 13,881 | 0.7% | |
| 2001 | 13,780 | 0.1% | |
| 1996 | 13,792 | 1.3% | |
| 1991 | 13,611 | N/A |
| Language | Population | Pct (%) | |
|---|---|---|---|
| English only | 13,520 | 97.51% | |
| Other languages | 225 | 1.62% | |
| French only | 105 | 0.76% | |
| Both English and French | 15 | 0.11% |
The poet George Elliot Clarke is from West Hants. His poem, "West Hants County" tells of the difficult condition of black workers in the gypsum mines at one time in its history.