Pensons Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador
# Pensons Arm, Newfoundland and Labrador

Pensons Arm (also known as Pinsent's Arm) is a local service district and designated place in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador. Pensons Arm, is a coastal village in Labrador, 20 km southeast of Charlottetown. It has a population of 43 in the 2021 census.

## Geography

Pensons Arm is in Labrador within Subdivision B of Division No. 10. Topographically it is surrounded by St. Michaels Bay, an inlet of the Labrador Sea to the north and Scrammy Bay to the east.

## Demographics

As a designated place in the 2016 Census of Population conducted by Statistics Canada, Pensons Arm recorded a population of 61 living in 20 of its 21 total private dwellings, a change of 15.1% from its 2011 population of 53. With a land area of 3.23 $km^2$ (1.25 sq mi), it had a population density of $18.9/km^2$ (48.9/sq mi) in 2016.

## Government

Pensons Arm is a local service district (LSD) that is governed by a committee responsible for the provision of certain services to the community. The chair of the LSD committee is Harrison Campbell.

