Kings County is located in southern New Brunswick, Canada. Its historical shire town is Hampton and it was named as an expression of loyalty to the British Crown. Both the Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers pass through the county.

Approximately half of the Kings County population of 71,184 (as of 2021) lives in suburbs of the nearby city of Saint John.

Census subdivisions

Communities

There are seven municipalities within Kings County (listed by 2016 population):

Official nameDesignationArea km2PopulationParish
QuispamsisTown57.2118,245Rothesay
RothesayTown34.7211,659Rothesay
Grand Bay-WestfieldTown59.784,964Westfield
HamptonTown21.094,289Hampton
SussexTown8.954,282Sussex
Sussex CornerVillage9.341,461Sussex
NortonVillage75.351,382Norton

Parishes

The county is subdivided into fifteen parishes (listed by 2016 population):

Official nameArea km2PopulationMunicipalitiesUnincorporated communities
Studholm449.373,522Berwick / Carsonville / Centreville / Collina / Fox Hill / Gibbon / Gibbon Mountain / Head of Millstream / Jordan Mountain / Kierstead Mountain / Kings / Lower Millstream / Marrtown / McGregor Brook / Mount Hebron / Mount Middleton / Mount Pisgah / Newtown / Parleeville / Pearsonville / Pleasant Ridge / Plumweseep / Prescott Hill / Roachville / Sharps Hill / Smiths Creek / Snider Mountain / Studholm / Summerfield / Thompson Corner
Kingston200.692,913Bedford / Centreton / Chapel Grove / Clifton Royal / East Riverside-Kinghurst / Elmhurst / Erbs Cove / Grays Mills / Grey Mills / Kingston / Kingston Corner / Kingston Creek / Long Reach / Lower Kingston / Moss Glen / Perry Point / Renforth / Shampers / The Cedars / Waltons Lake / Whitehead / Whites Mills
Hampton121.262,809Hampton (town)Bonney Road / Damascus / Darlings Island / French Village / Hampton / Lakeside / Mount Prospect / Nauwigewauk / Smithtown / Titusville
Sussex244.022,516Sussex (town) Sussex Corner (village)Apohaqui / Campbell Settlement / Cassidy Lake / Drurys Cove / Dutch Valley / Erb Settlement / Hazel Hill / Jeffries Corner / Lisson Settlement / Lower Cove / Markhamville / McCain Settlement / Millbrook / New Line Road / Ratter Corner / Riverbank / Rockville / Southfield / Upper Wards Creek / Vinegar Hill / Wards Creek
Westfield295.701,962Grand Bay-Westfield (town)Bayswater / Carters Point / Cheyne Settlement / Days Landing / Hardings Point / Keatings Corner / Lands End / Milkish / Morrisdale / Nerepis / Public Landing / Sand Point / Summerville / Woodmans Point
Springfield248.541,525Belleisle Creek / Bull Moose Hill / East Scotch Settlement / Elm Brook / Hatfield Point / Irish Settlement / Joliffs Brook / Keirsteadville / Long Point / Lower Midland / Midland / Northrups Corner / Pascobac / Searsville / Springfield / Stewarton / The Grant / Upper Belleisle / Upper Midland / West Scotch Settlement
Cardwell311.901,353Anagance / Buckley Settlement / Cardwell / Crockets Corner / Dunsinane / Five Points / Harper Settlement / Lindys / McCully / Mechanic Settlement / Penobsquis / Picadilly / Portage Vale / South Branch / Springdale / Upper Goshen
Norton144.761,301Norton (village)Bloomfield / Central Norton / Guthrie Road / Ketchum Road / Passekeag / Woodpecker Hall
Upham189.221,269Barnesville / Bloomfield Ridge / Clover Hill / Hanford Brook / Salina / Salt Springs / Upham / Upper Salt Springs / Upperton
Havelock349.231,061Anagance Ridge / Canaan Road / Cornhill / Cornhill East / Cosman Settlement / Creek Road / Dubee Settlement / Havelock / Knightville / Lower Ridge / Mannhurst / Perry Settlement / Salem / Samp Hill / Springhill / Whites Mountain
Greenwich114.461,058Browns Corner / Browns Flat / Central Greenwich / Cochrane Corner / Days Corner / Evandale / Glenwood / Greenwich Hill / Johnson Croft / Lynch Corner / Oak Point / Upper Greenwich / Victoria Beach
Waterford221.27469Cedar Camp / Chambers Settlement / Donegal / Parlee Brook / Urney / Walker Settlement / Waterford
Kars75.84325Beulah / Earle Wharf / Kars / Lower Kars / Tennants Cove
Rothesay7.26325Quispamsis (town) Rothesay (town)Barsa / Bradley Lake / East Riverside-Kinghurst / Fairvale / Golden Grove / Hillhurst / Hunter Lake-Upper Hunter Lake Road / Kennebecasis Park / Renforth / Torryburn / Wells
Hammond244.45251Devine Corner / Hammond / Hammondvale / Hilldale / Hillsdale / Londonderry / Poodiac

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kings County had a population of 71,184 living in 28,464 of its 30,283 total private dwellings, a change of 3.3% from its 2016 population of 68,941. With a land area of 3,482.35 km2 (1,344.54 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.4/km2 (52.9/sq mi) in 2021.

CensusPopulationChange (%)
Population trend Census Population Change (%) 2021 71,184 3.3% 2016 68,941 1.0% 2011 69,665 5.8% 2006 65,824 2.5% 2001 64,208 0.8% 1996 64,724 4.2% 1991 62,122 N/AMother tongue (2016) Language Population Pct (%) English only 64,355 93.4% French only 2,300 3.3% Other languages 2,005 2.9% Both English and French 280 0.4%
202171,1843.3%
201668,9411.0%
201169,6655.8%
200665,8242.5%
200164,2080.8%
199664,7244.2%
199162,122N/A
LanguagePopulationPct (%)
English only64,35593.4%
French only2,3003.3%
Other languages2,0052.9%
Both English and French2800.4%

Protected areas and attractions

Notable people

Although not everyone in this list was born in Kings County, they all live or have lived in Kings County and have had significant connections to the communities.

NameCommunityFamous forBirthDeathOther
Winston BronnumSussexSculptor19291991
Chris CummingsNortonCountry music singer1975
John Peters HumphreyHamptonLawyer19051995diplomat, scholar and principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Anna Ruth LangNauwigewaukRecipient of the Canadian Cross of Valour (1982)
Hugh J. McCormickKennebecasis IslandSpeed Skater18541910World professional speed skater 1890-1892
George McCready PriceHavelockCreationist18701963
Anna McNultyGrand Bay-WestfieldYouTuber2002

See also

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