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.^[2] Both the Saint John and Kennebecasis rivers pass through the county.

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Kings
County
Location within New Brunswick
Country	Canada
Province	New Brunswick
Established	1785
Electoral Districts      Federal	Fundy Royal / New Brunswick Southwest
Area [1]
• Land	3,482.35 km2 (1,344.54 sq mi)
Population  (2021)[1]
• Total	71,184
• Density	20.4/km2 (53/sq mi)
• Change 2011-2016	3.3%
• Dwellings	30,283
Time zone	UTC-4 (AST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC-3 (ADT)
Area code	506

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Approximately half of the Kings County population of 68,941 (as of 2016)^[3] lives in suburbs of the nearby city of Saint John.

As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Kings County had a population of 71,184 living in 28,464 of its 30,283 total private dwellings, a change of 3.3% from its 2016 population of 68,941. With a land area of 3,482.35 km² (1,344.54 sq mi), it had a population density of 20.4/km² (52.9/sq mi) in 2021.^[5]

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Population trend[6][7][3] Census Population Change (%) 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)[3] 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%

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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.

• List of communities in New Brunswick
• Royal eponyms in Canada