Number one settled around 1749, Lower Sackville is now one of the fastest growing communities inside Nova Scotia & contains a mix of residential & commercial development in the Sackville Flow of any stream vale, immediately to the north of the previous town of Bedford. Until merger into a Halifax Regional Municipality around 1996, Lower Sackville was an unincorporated section of Halifax County and comprised part of Nose count Section One hundred (2001 pop.: 55,765). This region of HRM had the 7% people rate of growth between 1996-2001.

Following of its unincorporated status until 1996, Lower Sackville & adjacent unincorporated communities like Middle Sackville and Upper Sackville did not gain from either appropriate planning & come an case of urban sprawl. A community's incubation reflects its central location to each Halifax & Dartmouth which developed when a Highway 102 and Highway 101 expressways were built through the community in the 1970s. Proximity to Halifax particularly gives the suburbia of Lower Sackville a benefits of employment & services of a big city & is average of virtually all commuter community incubation within Northerly Usa.

Amateur pursuits in a community revolve in sports fields at local schools & parks, too when the Sackville Sports Stadium which is equipped with the floating pool, gymnasium, curled skating rink, & one of Lower Sackville's deuce ice hockey arenas. A majority of Lower Sackville's suburban area were built in the Seventies on the southern edge of Foremost Flow of any stream which offers outdoor unpaid chance. a provincial park reserve borders the northern edge of the community at 2nd Flow of any stream.

A community hosts ii highschool: Sackville High School & Millwood High School.