Wellington | |
Settlement Type: | Rural municipality |
Pushpin Map: | PEI |
Pushpin Label Position: | none |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Wellington in Prince Edward Island |
Pushpin Mapsize: | 220 |
Coordinates: | 46.45°N -64.001°W |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Name: | Canada |
Subdivision Type1: | Province |
Subdivision Name1: | Prince Edward Island |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Prince County |
Subdivision Type3: | Parish |
Subdivision Type4: | Lot |
Leader Title: | Chairperson |
Leader Title1: | Councillors |
Leader Title2: | CAO |
Population As Of: | 2011 |
Population Footnotes: | [1] |
Population Total: | 409 |
Timezone: | AST |
Timezone Dst: | ADT |
Postal Code Type: | Canadian postal code |
Blank Name: | Telephone Exchange |
Blank1 Name: | NTS Map |
Blank2 Name: | GNBC Code |
Wellington is a rural municipality in Prince Edward Island, Canada.[2] It is located in Prince County, and extends as Wellington Centre onto Route 2 from Richmond through to St. Nicholas.
Located in the "Evangeline Region," a cluster of Acadian communities in the central part of Prince County, Wellington is served by Route 2 and until 1989 was served by the Prince Edward Island Railway. Wellington is home to the head office of Collège Acadie Î.-P.-É.
In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Wellington had a population of living in of its total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of . With a land area of 1.7km2, it had a population density of in 2021.[3]