# Gloucester County, New Brunswick

Gloucester County (2021 population 78,256) is located in the northeastern corner of New Brunswick, Canada. Fishing, mining and forestry are the major industries in the county. The eastern section of the county is known for its Acadian culture. The county is named for Princess Mary, Duchess of Gloucester and Edinburgh.

## Census subdivisions
### Communities

There are 19 municipalities within the county. They are listed below by 2016 population:
| Official Name | Designation | Area km$^2$ | Population | Parish |
| Bathurst | City | 92.04 | 11,897 | Bathurst |
| Tracadie-Sheila | Town (dissolved) | 24.65 | 5,171 | Saumarez |
| Beresford | Town | 19.41 | 4,288 | Beresford |
| Caraquet | Town | 68.35 | 4,248 | Caraquet |
| Shippagan | Town | 10.02 | 2,580 | Shippagan |
| Petit-Rocher | Village | 4.52 | 1,897 | Beresford |
| Belledune | Village | 189.47 | 1,417 | Beresford |
| Bas-Caraquet | Village | 31.01 | 1,305 | Caraquet |
| Lamèque | Town | 12.51 | 1,285 | Shippagan |
| Bertrand | Village | 57.44 | 1,166 | Caraquet |
| Nigadoo | Village | 7.65 | 963 | Beresford |
| Grande-Anse | Village | 24.33 | 899 | New Bandon |
| Pointe-Verte | Village | 13.79 | 886 | Beresford |
| Sainte-Marie-Saint-Raphaël | Village | 15.90 | 879 | Shippagan |
| Le Goulet | Village | 5.49 | 793 | Shippagan |
| Saint-Isidore | Village | 22.94 | 764 | Saint-Isidore |
| Paquetville | Village | 9.26 | 720 | Paquetville |
| Saint-Léolin | Village | 19.73 | 647 | New Bandon |
| Maisonnette | Village | 12.90 | 495 | New Bandon |

### First Nations

There is one First Nations reservation in Gloucester County (listed with 2016 population):
| Official Name | Designation | Area km$^2$ | Population | Parish |
| Pabineau 11 | Reservation | 4.92 | 134 | Bathurst |

### Parishes

The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Area km$^2$ | Population | Municipalities | Unincorporated communities |
| Saumarez | 326.78 | 6,618 | Tracadie-Sheila (town) | Benoit / Charnisay / Commeau / Ferguson Point / Gauvreau / Haut-Sheila / Leech / Little Gaspereau / Losier Settlement / Petit-Tracadie / Pointe-à-Bouleau / Pont-Lafrance / Rivière-à-la-truite / Saint Irénée and Alderwood / Saint-Isidore Station / Saint-Pons / Saumarez / St. Pierre / Tracadie Beach / Val-Comeau |
| Beresford | 456.86 | 6,248 | Beresford (town) Petit-Rocher (village) Belledune (village) Nigadoo (village) Pointe-Verte (village) | Alcida and Dauversière / Dempsey Settlement / Devereaux / Dunlop / Free Grant / LaPlante / Lincour / Madran / Massabielle / Nicholas-Denys / Robertville / Saint-Laurent / Sainte-Louise / Sainte-Rosette / Sormany / St. George / Tremblay / Val-Michaud |
| Shippegan | 208.08 | 4,800 | Shippagan (town) Lamèque (town) Le Goulet (village) Ste-Marie-St-Raphaël (village) | Cap-Bateau / Chiasson-Savoy / Coteau Road / Haut-Lamèque / Haut-Shippagan / Herring Point / Miscou Centre / Miscou Harbour / Miscou Lighthouse / Miscou Plains / Petite-Lamèque / Petite-Rivière-de-l'lle / Petit-Shippagan / Pigeon Hill / Pointe-Alexandre / Pointe-Brûlé / Pointe-Canot / Sainte-Cécile / Shippagan Portage / Wilson Point |
| Bathurst | 1504.87 | 4,797 | Bathurst (city) Pabineau 11 (reservation) | Bartibog Station / Bathurst Mines / Big Antler / Big Moose / Big River / Blue Mountain Settlement / Bruce / Brunswick Mines / Chamberlain Settlement / Goodwin Mill / Gloucester Junction / Hachey Siding / Lawson Brook Siding / Miller Brook / Nepisiguit Junction / North Tetagouche / Ottawa Road / Pitre Road / Red Pine / Rio Grande / Russell / Salmon Beach / South Tetagouche / Tetagouche Hill / Upper Rosehill |
| Inkerman | 107.56 | 2,366 | | Boudreau Road / Cowans Creek / Evangeline / Four Roads / Gaspereau / Haché Road / Haut Pokemouche / Inkerman / Inkerman Ferry / Landry / Maltampec / Pokemouche / Pokemouche Junction / Sainte-Rose-Gloucester / Six Roads |
| Paquetville | 220.51 | 2,329 | Paquetville (village) | Burnsville / Notre-Dame-des-Érables / Petit-Paquetville / Rang-Saint-Georges / Saint-Amateur / Trudel / Val-Doucet |
| Allardville | 654.69 | 2,032 | | Allardville / Allardville East / Veniot / Bear Landing / Beaubois / Butte-d'Or / Daulnay / Goodwin Mill / Jeanne-Mance / Saint-Sauveur |
| Saint-Isidore | 173.25 | 1,361 | Saint-Isidore (village) | Bois-Blanc / Bois-Gagnon / Boishébert / Duguayville / Hacheyville / Haut-Saint-Isidore / Haut Tilley Road / Pokemouche Landing / Pont-Landry / Spruce Brook / Tilley Road |
| Caraquet | 109.97 | 1,337 | Caraquet (town) Bas-Caraquet (village) Bertrand (village) | Blanchard Settlement / Caraquet Island / Haut-Saint-Simon / Marsoliau / Pokesudie / Saint-Simon / Saint-Simon Centre |
| New Bandon | 359.11 | 1,214 | Grande-Anse (village) Maisonnette (village) Saint-Léolin (village) | Anse-Bleue / Bertrand Station / Black Rock / Canobie / Clifton / Dugas / Janeville / Johnson / Lobster Beach / New Bandon-Salmon Beach / Pokeshaw / Rocheville / Springfield / Stonehaven / Village-des-Poirier / Village-Saint-Paul / Waterloo Settlement |

## Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Gloucester County had a population of 78,256 living in 35,830 of its 39,145 total private dwellings, a change of -0.2% from its 2016 population of 78,444. With a land area of 4,734.3 km$^2$ (1,827.9 sq mi), it had a population density of 16.5/km$^2$ (42.8/sq mi) in 2021.

### Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Gloucester County, New Brunswick :
| Census | Total | French | French | French | English | English | English | French & English | French & English | French & English | Non-official languages | Non-official languages | Non-official languages |
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % |
| 2016 | 77,065 | 64,890 | 1.0% | 84.20% | 10,795 | 2.8% | 14.01% | 810 | 8.0% | 1.05% | 220 | 44.3% | 0.28% |
| 2011 | 76,515 | 64,270 | 1.4% | 84.00% | 11,105 | 0.5% | 14.51% | 745 | 19.2% | 0.97% | 395 | 41.5% | 0.52% |
| 2006 | 77,675 | 65,210 | 4.7% | 83.95% | 11,165 | 8.9% | 14.37% | 625 | 26.0% | 0.80% | 675 | 206.8% | 0.87% |
| 2001 | 81,760 | 68,440 | 5.0% | 83.71% | 12,255 | 9.5% | 14.99% | 845 | 8.3% | 1.03% | 220 | 6.4% | 0.27% |
| 1996 | 86,620 | 72,060 | n/a | 83.19% | 13,545 | n/a | 15.64% | 780 | n/a | 0.90% | 235 | n/a | 0.27% |

## Access Routes

Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits: