Albert County, New Brunswick

**Albert County** (2021 population 30,749) is a county in southeastern New Brunswick, Canada on Chignecto Bay in the Bay of Fundy. Prior to the ending of county government in 1967, the shire town was Hopewell Cape. The county was created in 1845 from parts of Westmorland County and Saint John County, and named after Prince Albert.

### Communities

There are four municipalities within Albert County (listed by 2021 population):
|Official Name|Status|Area km<sup>2</sup>|Population|Parish||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Riverview|Town|align="right"|34.10|align="right"|20,584|align="center"|Coverdale|
|Hillsborough|Village|align="right"|12.81|align="right"|1,348|align="center"|Hillsborough|
|Riverside-Albert|Village|align="right"|3.39|align="right"|348|align="center"|Hopewell|
|Alma|Village|align="right"|47.64|align="right"|282|align="center"|Alma|

### Parishes

The county is subdivided into six parishes (listed by 2021 population): The parishes do not include the municipalities within them.
|Official Name|Area km<sup>2</sup>|Population|municipalities|Unincorporated communities||||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|Coverdale|align="right"|236.00|align="right"|4,766|align="center"|Riverview (town)|Colpitts Settlement  / Five Points / Grub Road / Lower Coverdale / Lower Turtle Creek / Middlesex / Middle Coverdale / Nixon / Pine Glen / Price / Salisbury Back Road / Stoney Creek / Synton / Turtle Creek / Upper Coverdale|
|Hillsborough|align="right"|304.03|align="right"|1,397|align="center"|Hillsborough (village)|Albert Mines / Baltimore / Beech Hill / Berryton / Caledonia Mountain / Dawson Settlement / Edgetts Landing / Isaiah Corner / Osborne Corner / Rosevale / Salem / Shenstone / Steeves Mills / Steevescote / Weldon|
|Elgin|align="right"|519.54|align="right"|1,064|align="center"||Church Hill / Churchs Corner / Elgin / Ferndale / Forest Hill / Goshen / Gowland Mountain / Harrison Settlement / Hillside / Little River / Mapleton / Meadow / Midland / Parkindale / Pleasant Vale / Prosser Brook / Ross Corner|
|Hopewell|align="right"|149.14|align="right"|597|align="center"|Riverside-Albert (village)|Cape Station / Chemical Road / Chester / Curryville / Demoiselle Creek / Hopewell Cape / Hopewell Hill / Lower Cape / McGinleys Corner / Memel Settlement / Mountville / Shepody|
|Harvey|align="right"|276.85|align="right"|358|align="center"||Beaver Brook / Brookville / Cape Enrage / Derrys Corner / Germantown / Harvey / Harvey Bank / Little Ridge / Midway / New Horton / New Ireland / Upper New Horton / Waterside / West River|
|Alma|align="right"|222.74|align="right"|5|align="center"|Alma (village)|Mitchells Corner / Teahans Corner|

### Language

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|||||26,695|2.3%|87.51%||2,195|10.0%|7.20%||490|108.5%|1.61%||935|74.8%|3.07%|
|||||26,105|0.2%|90.24%||1,995|8.1%|6.90%||235|17.5%|0.81%||535|30.5%|1.85%|
|||||26,135|4.0%|91.41%||1,845|17.1%|6.45%||200|207.7%|0.70%||410|16.3%|1.43%|
|||||25,130|2.0%|92.19%||1,575|9.4%|5.78%||65|43.5%|0.24%||490|78.2%|1.80%|
|||||24,640|0.1%|93.09%||1,440|10.8%|5.44%||115|15.0%|0.43%||275|44.7%|1.04%|
|||||24,665|n/a|93.94%||1,300|n/a|4.95%||100|n/a|0.38%||190|n/a|0.72%|

## Access Routes

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

- **Highways**
    - None

- **Principal Routes**

- **Secondary Routes:**

- **External Routes:**
    - None

## Other websites

- Albert County Guide

## Infobox (settlement)

- **name**: Albert County
- **settlement type**: List of counties of New Brunswick, County
- **image skyline**: NB Alma2 tango7174.jpg
- **image caption**: Farm landscape near Alma
- **image map**: Map of New Brunswick highlighting Albert County.png
- **map caption**: Location within New Brunswick
- **subdivision type**: Country
- **subdivision name**: Canada
- **subdivision type1**: Provinces and territories of Canada, Province
- **subdivision name1**: New Brunswick
- **established title**: Established
- **established date**: 1845
- **area land km2**: 1806.23
- **population as of**: 2021
- **population total**: 30,749
- **population density km2**: 17.0
- **population blank1 title**: Pop 
- **population blank1**: 5.5%
- **population blank2 title**: Dwellings
- **population blank2**: 13,476
- **timezone**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, AST
- **utc offset**: -4
- **timezone dst**: Atlantic Standard Time Zone, ADT
- **utc offset dst**: -3
- **area code**: Area code 506, 506