Woodlands County is a

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in north-central

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, Canada. Located in Census Division No. 13, its municipal office is located outside but adjacent to the Town of

Whitecourt Whitecourt is a town in Northern Alberta, Canada that is surrounded by Woodlands County. It is approximately northwest of Edmonton and southeast of Grande Prairie at the junction of Alberta Highway 43, Highway 43 and Alberta Highway 32, Highw ...

. A second municipal office is located in the Hamlet of

Fort Assiniboine Fort Assiniboine is a hamlet in northwest Alberta, Canada, within Woodlands County. It is located along the north shore of the Athabasca River at the junction of Highway 33 and Highway 661. It is approximately northwest of Barrhead, sou ...

Geography

Communities and localities

The following urban municipalities are surrounded by Woodlands County. ;

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*none ;

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;

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*none ; Summer villages *none The following

hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

are located within Woodlands County. ;

Hamlets A hamlet is a human settlement that is smaller than a town or village. This is often simply an informal description of a smaller settlement or possibly a subdivision or satellite entity to a larger settlement. Sometimes a hamlet is defined f ...

* Blue Ridge *

* Goose Lake The following localities are located within Woodlands County. ;Localities *Anselmo *Benbow *Corbett Creek *Doris *Freeman River *Highway *Hurdy *Knight *Lombell *Lone Pine *Lonira *Silver Creek *Timeu *Topland * Windfall

Demographics

In the

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conducted by

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, Woodlands County had a population of 4,558 living in 1,739 of its 1,991 total private dwellings, a change of from its 2016 population of 4,744. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2021. In the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Woodlands County had a population of 4,754 living in 1,812 of its 1,950 total private dwellings, a change from its 2011 population of 4,306. With a land area of , it had a population density of in 2016.

Education

The county is within the Pembina Hills Public Schools, which formed in 1995 as a merger of three school districts.

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