Jaunpagasts is home to the parish administration, Virbu primary school, cultural center, kindergarten, library, family doctor's practice, and the Neivakene Old Believers Church (built in 1928).

[2] Jaunpagasts is mentioned in historical sources for the first time in 1237 in the feudal book.

The present-day settlement was established on the land of the former Jaunpagasts (Neuwacken) manor (now the inhabited place Brūzis on the right bank of the Virbu River) near the railway station.

In 1909–1911, with the financial support of the Don Agrarian Bank, approximately 120 families settled in the vicinity of Jaunpagasts.

[3] In the post-war years, Jaunpagasts became the central village of the Soviet collective farm "Virbi".