Sunbury County (2021 population 27,864) is located in central New Brunswick, Canada. A large military base (CFB Gagetown) is located in the western part of the county south of the town of Oromocto. The county also hosts forestry and mixed farming. Burton is the county shire town.
There are three municipalities within Sunbury County (listed by 2016 population):
Much of the Village of Minto lies within Sunbury County, but since most of it is in Queens County, Statistics Canada considers it as part of Queens. Similarly, a small portion of the city of Fredericton lies within Sunbury County, but is counted as part of York.
There is one First Nations reservation in Sunbury County (listed by 2016 population):
The county is subdivided into seven parishes (listed by 2016 population):
As a census division in the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Sunbury 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.
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Highways and numbered routes that run through the county, including external routes that start or finish at the county limits:
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