Photo: sadikartart · CC0The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Temple trails that of 87% of Canadian towns
Commutes from Temple average 26.7 minutes, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. Before tax, the typical household in Temple brought in $89,800 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. Out of work in May 2021: 16% of Temple’s labour force; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
Where Temple stands out on work
Fewer people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 65% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 53%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 6.6% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 16%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Temple grades C for jobs and income
Better than 30% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #372 of 474 in Alberta.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, the share of 15-to-64s in work.
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.
Work for 65% of 15-to-64s in Temple
Of the 166 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 6, 15 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 63% of residents that age. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 67% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. The census caught the labour market on 11 May 2021, deep in the pandemic, so unemployment and working from home both ran above normal.
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.
Earnings at home in Temple: households
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Of the 166 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 6, 107 have a higher median. Against the middle of Alberta’s towns ($92,250), Temple’s median is 3% below. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
Leaving the car at home: 11% of commuters in Temple
By transit: 10% of commuters, well above the 5.7% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Fewer drive than in the middle of Alberta’s towns: 85% against 88%. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 13% against 21%.
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. 6, 35% more people receive EI than in 2019
Temple shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of Census Division No. 6.
That is about 4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 1%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 97,600 people on EI, 3.2 times 2019’s average.
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).
Temple earns A for walkability
Better than 94% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #126 of 474 in Alberta.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How Temple ranks: 482nd of 643 Canadian towns of 7,400 to 14,200
| # | 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 Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 85% | 5.9% | $121K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Altadore Alberta | 7,675 | 80% | 8.1% | $155K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 19 | West Hillhurst Alberta | 10,319 | 78% | 9.3% | $126K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 37 | Lakeview Alberta | 12,799 | 75% | 11% | $125K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 480 | Oakridge British Columbia | 14,071 | 68% | 10% | $90K | C |
| 481 | Lambton Shores Ontario | 12,962 | 73% | 9.6% | $80K | C |
| 482 | Temple Alberta | 10,545 | 65% | 16% | $90K | C |
| 483 | Chatsworth Ontario | 7,770 | 74% | 8.2% | $81K | C |
| 484 | Mount Pleasant North Ontario | 10,103 | 69% | 13% | $129K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 643 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Temple, and others among Alberta’s towns.
Temple and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Temple | 65% | 16% | $90K | 26.7 min | C | A |
| Monterey Park 1 km | 67% | 15% | $97K | 26.6 min | C+ | B+ |
| Pineridge 1.3 km | 63% | 16% | $76K | 26.4 min | C− | A |
| Falconridge 1.7 km | 61% | 17% | $82K | 29.4 min | D | A+ |
| Whitehorn 1.8 km | 63% | 15% | $90K | 26.6 min | C | A+ |
| Coral Springs 2 km | 69% | 14% | $124K | 26.4 min | B− | B+ |
| Rundle 2.2 km | 62% | 17% | $87K | 26.6 min | C− | 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 Temple, 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. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around the town.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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.
- Trip times. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed average.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
- Neighbourhood figures. Temple’s census figures are summed from its dissemination areas. Commuting flows and Statistics Canada’s timed averages are published only for the whole municipality, so they are on Calgary’s page.
Questions about work in Temple
How do people in Temple get to work?
Driving takes 85% of commuters to work, 10% take public transit and 0.8% walk, and on census day 13% of those in work were at home.
How many jobs are there in Temple?
The census places jobs by municipality, so the answer is in Calgary’s figures, with the flows of its commuters.
What is the unemployment rate in Temple?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Calgary metro area at 6.6%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 16%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Temple?
The median household in Temple had $89,800 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).