[4] For governance purposes, the parish is divided between the towns of Caraquet, Hautes-Terres, Rivière-du-Nord, and Shippagan.

[5] All municipalities are members of the Acadian Peninsula Regional Service Commission (APRSC).

[6] Historian William F. Ganong described the origin of the name as uncertain, the Mi'kmaq Caluget possibly being their pronunciation of a French name for the area.

[10] Caraquet Parish is bounded:[2][11][12] The northern mainland of the parish was divided (before 2023) into three municipalities; from east to west, these are the village of Bas-Caraquet, the town of Caraquet, and the eastern part of the village of Bertrand.

Revised census figures based on the 2023 local governance reforms have not been released.