Waterville is a Canadian community in Kings County,

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. It is administratively part of the village of Cornwallis Square. Located on the

Cornwallis River The Cornwallis River is in Kings County, Nova Scotia, Canada. It has a meander length of approximately through eastern Kings County, from its source on the North Mountain at Grafton to its mouth near Wolfville on the Minas Basin. The lower ...

, the community is located 15 kilometres west of

Kentville Kentville is an incorporated town in Nova Scotia. It is the most populous town in the Annapolis Valley. As of 2021, the town's population was 6,630. Its census agglomeration is 26,929. History Kentville owes its location to the Cornwallis River ...

and is home to a

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tire factory, as well as th
provincial youth detention facility
As of 2021, the population was 703.

Climate

Demographics

In the 2021 Census of Population conducted by

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, Waterville had a population of 703 living in 314 of its 327 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 747. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021.

References

Communities in Kings County, Nova Scotia Designated places in Nova Scotia General Service Areas in Nova Scotia {{KingsNS-geo-stub