Photo: Fakewindow · CC BY-SA 4.0Deer Run has higher household incomes than 90% of Canadian towns
12% of the labour force in Deer Run was out of work at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. On census day, 29% of workers here were at home, next to 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. The 2021 census found 77% of working-age people in Deer Run employed, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Work in Deer Run, in a few figures
Work near the middle
With 77% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 59% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $105,300 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Deer Run earns A− for jobs and income
Better than 81% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #69 of 474 in Alberta.
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.
Before tax, the median household in Deer Run had $105,300
Of the 166 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 6, 74 have a higher median. That puts Deer Run 14% above the median of Alberta’s towns, $92,250. The year is 2020: emergency benefits like CERB count in these incomes, and they raised the bottom of the range.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
In and out of work in Deer Run
Of the 166 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 6, 136 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting retirees, 59% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. In October 2026, 67% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 67% of residents that age. May 2021, when the census was taken, was a pandemic spring; unemployment has come down since, as the Labour Force Survey records.
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.
Leaving the car at home: 4% of commuters in Deer Run
Transit takes 2% of commuters, 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).
In Census Division No. 6, 35% more people receive EI than in 2019
Behind EI beneficiaries sits data gathered across Census Division No. 6, with Deer Run one part of it.
At its peak, in January 2021, 97,600 people were on EI, 3.2 times the 2019 average. Roughly 4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 1%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Getting around Deer Run on foot earns B−
Better than 47% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #402 of 474 in Alberta.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Deer Run is 162nd of 750 Canadian towns of 2,600 to 4,900 people for jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Garrison Woods Alberta | 3,138 | 79% | 10% | $146K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 23 | Wainwright No. 61 Alberta | 4,576 | 84% | 5.5% | $108K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 160 | Stoke Quebec | 3,272 | 79% | 6% | $88K | A− |
| 161 | Electoral Area D, Fraser-Fort George British Columbia | 4,802 | 76% | 6.8% | $109K | A− |
| 162 | Deer Run Alberta | 3,652 | 77% | 12% | $105K | A− |
| 163 | Compton Quebec | 3,351 | 86% | 4.6% | $75K | A− |
| 164 | Wakefield New Brunswick | 2,749 | 81% | 7.3% | $71K | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 750 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Deer Run, and others among Alberta’s towns.
The places around Deer Run, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deer Run | 77% | 12% | $105K | 24.9 min | A− | B− |
| Deer Ridge 0.8 km | 73% | 14% | $92K | 24.8 min | B | A |
| Parkland 1.5 km | 73% | 9.5% | $139K | 24.5 min | A− | B− |
| McKenzie Lake 1.7 km | 74% | 12% | $131K | 24 min | A− | B |
| Queensland 2.3 km | 77% | 12% | $96K | 27.2 min | B+ | A |
| Douglasdale/Glen 2.9 km | 75% | 10% | $132K | 22.6 min | A | B |
| McKenzie Towne 3.2 km | 78% | 9.9% | $108K | 25.6 min | A− | A− |
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 Deer Run, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- Employment Insurance. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- Unemployment. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- Household income. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
- Neighbourhood figures. We add up Deer Run’s dissemination areas for its census figures. Flows between places and timed averages exist only for the whole municipality: see Calgary’s page.
Questions about work in Deer Run
How do people in Deer Run get to work?
By car: 90% of commuters, 2% take public transit and 2% walk; on census day 29% of those in work worked from home.
How many jobs are there in Deer Run?
There is no count for a neighbourhood: the jobs figure, and where commuters go, are published for Calgary as one municipality.
What is the unemployment rate in Deer Run?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.6% for the Calgary metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Deer Run?
Before tax, half the households in Deer Run had more than $105,300 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · 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).