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 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 km2 Population Parish Quispamsis Town57.2118,245Rothesay Rothesay Town34.7211,659Rothesay Grand Bay-Westfield Town59.784,964Westfield Hampton Town21.094,289Hampton Sussex Town 8.954,282Sussex Sussex Corner Village9.341,461Sussex Norton Village75.351,382Norton
Parishes The county is subdivided into fifteen parishes (listed by 2016 population): Official name Area km2 Population Municipalities Unincorporated communities Studholm449.373,522 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 Kingston200.692,913 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 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 Springfield248.541,525 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 Cardwell311.901,353 Anagance / Buckley Settlement / Cardwell / Crockets Corner / Dunsinane / Five Points / Harper Settlement / Lindys / McCully / Mechanic Settlement / Penobsquis / Picadilly / Portage Vale / South Branch / Springdale / Upper Goshen Norton144.761,301Norton (village) Bloomfield / Central Norton / Guthrie Road / Ketchum Road / Passekeag / Woodpecker Hall Upham189.221,269 Barnesville / Bloomfield Ridge / Clover Hill / Hanford Brook / Salina / Salt Springs / Upham / Upper Salt Springs / Upperton Havelock349.231,061 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 Greenwich114.461,058 Browns Corner / Browns Flat / Central Greenwich / Cochrane Corner / Days Corner / Evandale / Glenwood / Greenwich Hill / Johnson Croft / Lynch Corner / Oak Point / Upper Greenwich / Victoria Beach Waterford221.27469 Cedar Camp / Chambers Settlement / Donegal / Parlee Brook / Urney / Walker Settlement / Waterford Kars75.84325 Beulah / 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 Hammond244.45251 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 living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.
Population trendStatistics Canada: 1996, 2001, 2006 census 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
Mother 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%
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.
See also List of communities in New Brunswick Royal eponyms in Canada
References 2011 Statistics Canada Census Profile: Kings County, New Brunswick
External links Kings County Guide