# Queens County, New Brunswick

Queens County (French: Comté de Queens; 2021 population 10,998) is located in south central New Brunswick, Canada. The county shire town is the village of Gagetown. The county was named as an expression of loyalty to the Crown and to commemorate a group of earlier settlers originally from Queens County, New York.

## Geography

The county's geography is dominated by the Saint John River and Grand Lake. Coal mining is a major industry in the Minto area. Forestry and mixed farming dominate the rest of the county. The CFB Gagetown military training area takes in a large portion of the western part of the county.

## Census subdivisions
### Communities

There are four municipalities within Queens County (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Designation | Area km$^2$ | Population | Parish |
| Minto | Village | 31.68 | 2,305 | Canning |
| Chipman | Village | 19.02 | 1,104 | Chipman |
| Gagetown | Village | 49.47 | 711 | Gagetown |
| Cambridge-Narrows | Village | 107.19 | 562 | Cambridge |
* Part of Minto lies within Sunbury County, but since most of it is in Queens County, Statistics Canada considers it as part of Queens.

### Parishes

The county is subdivided into ten parishes (listed by 2016 population):
| Official Name | Area km$^2$ | Population | Municipalities | Unincorporated communities |
| Canning | 174.38 | 924 | Minto (village) | Back Road / Canning / Clarks Corners / Douglas Harbour / Flowers Cove / Lake Road / Maquapit Lake / Newcastle Center / Newcastle Centre / Newcastle Creek / Princess Park / Scotchtown / Sunnyside Beach / Sypher Cove / Upper Gagetown / Wuhr's Beach Road |
| Chipman | 483.44 | 913 | Chipman (village) | Briggs Corner / Bronson / Bronson Settlement / Camp Wegesegum / Castaway / Coal Creek / Dufferin / Fowlers Corner / Gaspereau Forks / Harley Road / Iron Bound Cove / Kings Mines / Leckey Road / Midland / Redbank / Salmon Creek / Salmon River / The Ridge / Upper Gaspereau |
| Waterborough | 445.55 | 847 | | Cox Point / Cumberland Bay / Cumberland Point / Grant Settlement / Mill Cove / New Dominion Road / Pangburn / Rees / The Range / Union Settlement / Waterborough / Youngs Cove |
| Petersville | 590.14 | 681 | | Bayard / Blagdon / Clarendon / Enniskillen / Fowlers Corners / Petersville / Welsford / Wirral / Wirral Station / Wirral-Enniskillen |
| Cambridge | 113.65 | 647 | Cambridge-Narrows | Cherry Hill / Jemseg / Lower Cambridge / Lower Jemseg / Robertson Point / Scovil / Whites Cove |
| Johnston | 359.32 | 560 | | Annidale / Bagdad / Canaan Rapids / Chambres Corner / Codys / Coles Island / Highfield / Johnston / Long Creek / Partridge Valley / Phillipstown / Salmon Creek / Smith Corner / Thornetown / Washademoak / Waterloo Corner / Youngs Cove Road |
| Wickham | 160.34 | 427 | | Bald Hill / Belyeas Cove / Big Cove / Carpenter / Crafts Cove / Henderson Settlement / London Settlement / MacDonalds Point / Shannon / Wickham |
| Gagetown | 234.88 | 311 | Gagetown (village) | Coytown / Mill Road / Upper Gagetown |
| Hampstead | 212.56 | 277 | | Central Hampstead / Elm Hill / Hampstead / McAlpines / Pleasant Villa / Quarries / Queenstown |
| Brunswick | 704.43 | 203 | | Alward / Brookvale / Brunswick / Canaan Forks / Cherryvale / Forks Stream / Hunters Home / New Canaan |

## Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Queens County had a population of 10,998 living in 5,133 of its 6,854 total private dwellings, a change of 5% from its 2016 population of 10,472. With a land area of 3,681.05 km$^2$ (1,421.26 sq mi), it had a population density of 3.0/km$^2$ (7.7/sq mi) in 2021.

### Language

Canada Census Mother Tongue - Queens County, New Brunswick :
| Census | Total | English | English | English | French | French | French | English & French | English & French | English & French | Other | Other | Other |
| Year | Responses | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % | Count | Trend | Pop % |
| 2016 | 10,290 | 9,655 | 5.3% | 93.83% | 445 | 11.0% | 4.32% | 40 | | 0.39% | 150 | 15.4% | 1.46% |
| 2011 | 10,865 | 10,195 | 2.9% | 93.83% | 500 | 18.0% | 4.60% | 40 | 27.3% | 0.37% | 130 | 56.7% | 1.20% |
| 2006 | 11,460 | 10,495 | 3.4% | 91.58% | 610 | 17.3% | 5.32% | 55 | 37.5% | 0.48% | 300 | 46.3% | 2.62% |
| 2001 | 11,635 | 10,870 | 4.7% | 93.43% | 520 | 23.0% | 4.47% | 40 | 0.0% | 0.34% | 205 | 57.7% | 1.76% |
| 1996 | 12,255 | 11,410 | n/a | 93.10% | 675 | n/a | 5.51% | 40 | n/a | 0.37% | 130 | n/a | 1.01% |

## Transportation
### Major highways

* Route 2 (TCH)
* Route 7
* Route 10
* Route 101
* Route 102
* Route 105
* Route 112
* Route 116
* Route 123
* Route 690
* Route 695
* Route 705
* Route 710
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