Makinsons is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Makinsons is in Newfoundland within Subdivision M of Division No. 1.
As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Makinsons recorded a population of 436 living in 180 of its 382 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2011 population of 438. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.
Makinsons is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Margaret Taylor.