Point May is the most southerly community on the Burin Peninsula in Newfoundland and Labrador with a population of 254 in 2021. It is a Catholic community with a church, town hall, fire hall, softball and soccer field. It is known for its close proximity, , to the French islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon, where the smuggling of liquor and tobacco has been a way of life since before Canada was a country. The tiny Canadian Green Island lies west of Point May, roughly halfway to St. Pierre.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Point May 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.