Photo: WinterE229 (WinterforceMedia) · CC0With 0.5 jobs for each resident in work, most of Bruderheim commutes out
An hour or more each way is the commute for 13% of workers in Bruderheim; the average is 32.7 minutes. Of everyone in Bruderheim working or looking for work in May 2021, 15% were unemployed, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%. Median household income in Bruderheim was $96,900 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
What the numbers say about work in Bruderheim
More unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 15% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 7.1% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 32.7 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 13% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Jobs and income in Bruderheim earn C
Better than 27% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, trip times.
Graded against Canadian towns of 2,500 people or more; less unemployment and a shorter commute count in its favour.
How the grade works
Census 2021 measures, weighed equally against every Canadian town and neighbourhood of 2,500 people or more: the share of residents aged 15 to 64 in work, median household income (2020), the unemployment rate and the average commute. Each becomes a percentile; their average sets the letter.
Bruderheim at work: 69% of people aged 15 to 64
None of the 10 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 10 has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 64% in work in October 2026. Working or looking, 67% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 57% of residents 15 and over were in work. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: people in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64, and the census unemployment rate (15 and over); the 25-to-54 rate is Statistics Canada’s own (98-10-0485). The Labour Force Survey and business counts are context, not grade inputs.
Commuting times in Bruderheim
The middle of Alberta’s towns averages 25.8 minutes. Only 28% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 31.7 minutes (Statistics Canada).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: commuting duration in five bands; our average uses each band’s middle (75 minutes for an hour or more), so it runs about two minutes above Statistics Canada’s own.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
A commuter town: Bruderheim sends out more workers than it takes in
375 residents of Bruderheim had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 170 people had theirs in Bruderheim, wherever they lived.
For every person who comes in to work, about 2 residents travel out. The job is inside the municipality for 8.2% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
92% of Bruderheim’s residents in work leave it to work; Fort Saskatchewan takes the most
Inbound, the leader is Wetaskiwin (30).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
2021 Census, people with a usual place of work: where residents of Bruderheim work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Household income in Bruderheim
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 83% of Canadian towns.
Of the 10 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 10, 2 have a higher median. Set beside Alberta’s towns, where the median is $92,250, Bruderheim sits 5% above. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Bruderheim gets to work without a car for 4.5% of commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 93% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Only 5.8% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
In Census Division No. 10, 5% more people receive EI than in 2019
The highest month was January 2021: 5,330 people, 2.8 times the 2019 level. Roughly 3.5 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 4%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: Census Division No. 10. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
How walkable Bruderheim is: B+
Better than 68% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in and around Bruderheim
The nearest places to Bruderheim with figures are 11–26 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bruderheim | 69% | 15% | $97K | 32.7 min | C | B+ |
| Lamont 11.1 km | 74% | 12% | $76K | 29.3 min | C | A− |
| Redwater 20.6 km | 63% | 16% | $79K | 31.4 min | D | A |
| Fort Saskatchewan 23.6 km | 74% | 11% | $113K | 24.3 min | A− | B |
| Gibbons 26 km | 71% | 12% | $108K | 31.4 min | C+ | B+ |
| Lamont County 26 km | 82% | 7.7% | $86K | 34.8 min | B− | C− |
The people of each place: the share in work, unemployment, household income and the average commute, with both grades once they come.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for Bruderheim, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Monthly, and only for metro areas and economic regions. It is the up-to-date rate we set beside the census’s 2021 snapshot.
- In work. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Household income. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- Trip times. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- Where people commute. Jobs count everyone whose usual workplace lies in the municipality, residents or commuters from elsewhere, from Statistics Canada’s home-by-workplace table.
- Which towns we compare. The comparison pool is places of 2,500 people or more, towns or neighbourhoods inside cities, without whole cities or reserves, and we compare with its median.
Questions about work in Bruderheim
Where do people in Bruderheim work?
Only 8.2% work in Bruderheim itself; the rest go first to Fort Saskatchewan (80) and Strathcona County (75).
How many jobs are there in Bruderheim?
The 2021 census found about 170 people with their usual workplace in Bruderheim, or 0.5 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 29 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Bruderheim?
Two figures answer it: 15% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 7.1% for the Edmonton metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Bruderheim?
At $96,900 before tax in 2020, the median household in Bruderheim compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Bruderheim get to work?
93% of commuters drive, 4.5% walk; 5.8% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Bruderheim?
The average commute is 32.7 minutes; 28% of trips take under 15 minutes and 13% an hour or more.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · Statistics Canada, tables 98-10-0458 and 98-10-0459 (commuting) · Statistics Canada, table 14-10-0323 (EI beneficiaries) · Statistics Canada, Labour Force Survey (14-10-0459, 14-10-0462) · Statistics Canada, Canadian Business Counts (33-10-1176) · grades: TownRatings. Under the Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).