Westmorland County, New Brunswick

Westmorland County is a county in New Brunswick, a province of Canada. It is in the south-eastern part of the province. It contains the fast-growing commercial centre of Moncton and its northern and eastern suburbs. Also located in the county are the university town of Sackville and the local tourist destination of Shediac.
Westmorland County is centrally located in the Maritimes and is New Brunswick's most populous county. Fishing and tourism are important industries along the Northumberland Strait shore, and there is some mixed farming in the Petitcodiac River Valley and in the Tantramar Marsh region. The city of Moncton accounts for half of the county's population and has developed as a major transportation, distribution, commercial and retail centre. Dorchester is the historic shire town.

Origins

The county, once a part of Cumberland County, Nova Scotia, was one of the original eight counties delineated shortly after the creation of the British colony of New Brunswick in 1784. Initially it included what is now Albert County and part of Saint John County.
Due to sweeping social reforms of the Louis Robichaud premiership, the counties no longer serve their role as regional local government and administrative units.

Census subdivisions

Communities

There were the eleven municipalities within Westmorland County before the 2023 local governance reforms :

Official name	Designation	Area km²	Population	Parish
Moncton	City	141.92	79,470	Moncton
Dieppe	City	54.05	28,114	Dorchester, Moncton
Shediac	Town	53.95	7,535	Shediac
Beaubassin East	Rural community	291.08	6,718	Botsford, Shediac
Sackville	Town	74.17	6,099	Sackville
Memramcook	Village	187.67	5,029	Dorchester
Cap-Pelé	Village	23.36	2,441	Botsford, Shediac
Salisbury	Village	13.54	2,387	Salisbury
Petitcodiac	Village	17.21	1,476	Salisbury
Dorchester	Village	5.79	906	Dorchester
Port Elgin	Village	2.66	381	Sackville, Westmorland

First Nations

There is one First Nations reserve in Westmorland County :

Official name	Designation	Area km²	Population	Parish
Fort Folly 1	Reserve	0.55	36	Dorchester

Parishes

The county is subdivided into seven parishes :

Official name	Area km²	Population	Municipalities	Unincorporated communities
Moncton	579.63	10,704	Moncton (city) Dieppe (city)	Allison / Ammon / Berry Mills / Boundary Creek / Canaan / Cape Breton / Gallagher Ridge / Greater Lakeburn / Indian Mountain / Irishtown / Lakeville / LeBlancville / Lutesville / McQuade / Meadow Brook / Melanson Settlement / New Scotland / O'Neil / Pacific Junction / Painsec / Painsec Junction / Scotch Settlement / Shaw Brook / Steeves Mountain / Stilesville
Shediac	196.71	5,144	Beaubassin East (rural community) Shediac (town)	Basse-Aboujagane / Batemans Mills / Bourgeois Mills / Chapman Corner / East Shediac / Evangeline / Haute-Aboujagane / MacDougall / Malakoff / Moncton Road / Petit Pre / Ohio-du-Barachois / Pointe-du-Chêne / Saint-Philippe / Scoudouc / Scoudouc Road / Shediac Bridge-Shediac River / Shediac Cape / Shediac Road / The Bluff
Salisbury	874.16	3,377	Salisbury (village) Petitcodiac (village)	Dobsons Corner / Fawcett / Fawcett Hill / Fredericton Road / Glenvale / Harewood / Havelock / Hicksville / Hillgrove / Intervale / Kay Settlement / Killams Mills / Kinnear Settlement / Leeman Hill / Lewis Mountain / Monteagle / North Branch / Pollett River / River Glade / Scott Road / Second North River / Steeves Settlement / The Glades / Upper Ridge / Wheaton Settlement
Sackville	579.98	1,204	Sackville (town)	Aboushagan Road / Anderson Settlement / Babcock Road / British Settlement / Brooklyn / Brooklyn Road / Centre Village / Coles Island Road / Cookville / Evans / Fairfield / Harper's Brook / Johnson's Mills / Lower Rockport / Midgic / Rockport / Upper Rockport / Ward / West Sackville / Westcock / Wood Point / Woodhurst
Botsford	304.16	1,120	Cap-Pelé (village)	Bayfield / Bayside / Botsford / Cadman Corner / Cape Spear / Cape Tormentine / Chapmans Corner / Hardy / Johnston Point Road / Little Shemogue / Malden / Mates Corner / Melrose / Murray Corner / Murray Road / Petit-Cap / Smith Settlement / Spence Settlement / The Bluff / Timber River / Westmorland / Upper Cape / Woodside
Westmorland	175.43	997	Port Elgin (village)	Aulac / Baie-Verte / Baie Verte Road / Coburg / Etter Ridge / Fromm's Swamp / Halls Hill / Jolicure / Mount Whatley / Pointe de Bute / Tidnish Bridge / Uniacke Hill / Upper Point de Bute / Westmorland
Dorchester	90.13	438	Memramcook (village) Dorchester (village) Fort Folly 1 (reservation)	Calhoun / Cherry Burton / Dorchester Cape / Middleton / Taylor Village / Upper Dorchester

Demographics

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Westmorland 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.

Language

The dominant dialect of Acadian French spoken in Westmorland County is Chiac.

Access routes

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