# Kings County, New Brunswick

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 name | Designation | Area km$^2$ | Population | Parish |
| Quispamsis | Town | 57.21 | 18,245 | Rothesay |
| Rothesay | Town | 34.72 | 11,659 | Rothesay |
| Grand Bay-Westfield | Town | 59.78 | 4,964 | Westfield |
| Hampton | Town | 21.09 | 4,289 | Hampton |
| Sussex | Town | 8.95 | 4,282 | Sussex |
| Sussex Corner | Village | 9.34 | 1,461 | Sussex |
| Norton | Village | 75.35 | 1,382 | Norton |

### Parishes

The county is subdivided into fifteen parishes (listed by 2016 population):
| Official name | Area km$^2$ | Population | Municipalities | Unincorporated communities |
| Studholm | 449.37 | 3,522 | | Berwick / 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 |
| Kingston | 200.69 | 2,913 | | Bedford / 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 |
| Hampton | 121.26 | 2,809 | Hampton (town) | Bonney Road / Damascus / Darlings Island / French Village / Hampton / Lakeside / Mount Prospect / Nauwigewauk / Smithtown / Titusville |
| Sussex | 244.02 | 2,516 | Sussex (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 |
| Westfield | 295.70 | 1,962 | Grand 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 |
| Springfield | 248.54 | 1,525 | | Belleisle 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 |
| Cardwell | 311.90 | 1,353 | | Anagance / Buckley Settlement / Cardwell / Crockets Corner / Dunsinane / Five Points / Harper Settlement / Lindys / McCully / Mechanic Settlement / Penobsquis / Picadilly / Portage Vale / South Branch / Springdale / Upper Goshen |
| Norton | 144.76 | 1,301 | Norton (village) | Bloomfield / Central Norton / Guthrie Road / Ketchum Road / Passekeag / Woodpecker Hall |
| Upham | 189.22 | 1,269 | | Barnesville / Bloomfield Ridge / Clover Hill / Hanford Brook / Salina / Salt Springs / Upham / Upper Salt Springs / Upperton |
| Havelock | 349.23 | 1,061 | | Anagance 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 |
| Greenwich | 114.46 | 1,058 | | Browns Corner / Browns Flat / Central Greenwich / Cochrane Corner / Days Corner / Evandale / Glenwood / Greenwich Hill / Johnson Croft / Lynch Corner / Oak Point / Upper Greenwich / Victoria Beach |
| Waterford | 221.27 | 469 | | Cedar Camp / Chambers Settlement / Donegal / Parlee Brook / Urney / Walker Settlement / Waterford |
| Kars | 75.84 | 325 | | Beulah / Earle Wharf / Kars / Lower Kars / Tennants Cove |
| Rothesay | 7.26 | 325 | Quispamsis (town) Rothesay (town) | Barsa / Bradley Lake / East Riverside-Kinghurst / Fairvale / Golden Grove / Hillhurst / Hunter Lake-Upper Hunter Lake Road / Kennebecasis Park / Renforth / Torryburn / Wells |
| Hammond | 244.45 | 251 | | Devine 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 km$^2$ (1,344.54 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.4/km$^2$ (52.9/sq mi) in 2021.
| 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/A |
| 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% |

## 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.
| Name | Community | Famous for | Birth | Death | Other |
| Winston Bronnum | Sussex | Sculptor | 1929 | 1991 | |
| Chris Cummings | Norton | Country music singer | 1975 | | |
| John Peters Humphrey | Hampton | Lawyer | 1905 | 1995 | diplomat, scholar and principal author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights |
| Anna Ruth Lang | Nauwigewauk | Recipient of the Canadian Cross of Valour (1982) | | | |
| Hugh J. McCormick | Kennebecasis Island | Speed Skater | 1854 | 1910 | World professional speed skater 1890-1892 |
| George McCready Price | Havelock | Creationist | 1870 | 1963 | |
| Anna McNulty | Grand Bay-Westfield | YouTuber | 2002 | | |