Kincora’s household incomes are higher than in 94% of Canadian towns
Residents of Kincora take 28.4 minutes to reach work on average; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. Jobs were held by 75% of people aged 15 to 64 in Kincora in 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Kincora had an unemployment rate of 12% at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What the numbers say about work in Kincora
Work near the middle
The 2021 census found 75% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 65%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $112,100 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.
Kincora grades B for jobs and income
Better than 62% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #180 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.
Household income in Kincora: $112,100 at the median
60 of the 166 other places of 2,500+ in Census Division No. 6 have a higher median. Kincora’s median is 22% above the middle of Alberta’s towns ($92,250). Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for that year.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Work and the working-age population of Kincora
Of the 166 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 6, 113 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 67% in October 2026. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 6% of Kincora’s commuters
By car, truck or van: 90% of commuters, against 88% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. 27% of everyone in work worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit takes 4.1% of commuters, close to 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
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 1%. In January 2021 it reached 97,600, the most in the series and 3.2 times the 2019 average. Roughly 4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: Census Division No. 6. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
The walkability of Kincora: A−
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How Kincora ranks: 267th of 694 Canadian towns of 5,100 to 9,800
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 79% | 5.5% | $146K | A+ |
| 2 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | North River Heights Manitoba | 7,228 | 82% | 8.4% | $143K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Altadore Alberta | 7,675 | 80% | 8.1% | $155K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 13 | Parkview Alberta | 5,729 | 80% | 9% | $155K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 27 | Glenora Alberta | 6,197 | 78% | 9.1% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 265 | Crystallina Nera East Alberta | 5,566 | 73% | 12% | $112K | B |
| 266 | Camrose County Alberta | 8,951 | 81% | 7.4% | $90K | B |
| 267 | Kincora Alberta | 7,290 | 75% | 12% | $112K | B |
| 268 | Harvest Hills Alberta | 7,930 | 73% | 12% | $108K | B |
| 269 | Willow Creek No. 26 Alberta | 6,225 | 77% | 3.4% | $81K | B |
| … | ||||||
| 694 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Kincora, and others among Alberta’s towns.
Neighbouring places to Kincora, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kincora | 75% | 12% | $112K | 28.4 min | B | A− |
| Sherwood 1.2 km | 69% | 11% | $113K | 29.3 min | C+ | A |
| Sage Hill 1.4 km | 76% | 9.1% | $112K | 29.1 min | B | B+ |
| Evanston 1.8 km | 76% | 9.8% | $124K | 29.2 min | B | A− |
| Nolan Hill 2.3 km | 73% | 13% | $128K | 30.1 min | B− | A |
| Hidden Valley 2.3 km | 72% | 12% | $127K | 25.8 min | B | B |
| Hamptons 2.4 km | 66% | 14% | $141K | 27.5 min | C+ | B+ |
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 Kincora, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- In work. Everyone with a job, whatever their age, divided by the residents aged 15 to 64 at the 2021 Census: below the municipality the census doesn’t split work by age, and this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood can be given.
- Unemployment. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Trip times. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s average.
- Employment Insurance. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
- Neighbourhood figures. The census reaches a neighbourhood only through its dissemination areas, and Kincora’s figures add those up. Calgary’s page has the commuting flows, which exist only for the whole municipality.
Questions about work in Kincora
What is the average household income in Kincora?
At $112,100 before tax in 2020, the median household in Kincora compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Kincora get to work?
Driving takes 90% of commuters to work, 4.1% take public transit and 1.9% walk, and on census day 27% of those in work were at home.
How many jobs are there in Kincora?
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 Kincora?
The census put unemployment at 12% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Calgary metro area at 6.6%.
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).