Most of Calmar works elsewhere: the town has 0.6 jobs for each resident in work
Getting to work from Calmar takes 30 minutes on average, an hour or more for 6.4%. Census day 2021 found 14% of Calmar’s labour force without a job; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Before tax, the typical household in Calmar brought in $85,900 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Calmar’s work numbers say
More unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 14% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 7.1% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 30 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 6.4% 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 Calmar earn C
Better than 28% 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.
In Calmar, 71% of the working-age population has a job
Of the 212 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 11, 108 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 64% in work in October 2026. 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.
Longer than the middle of Canadian towns: commutes from Calmar average 30 minutes
The middle of Alberta’s towns averages 25.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 20%, fewer than the 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 28.7 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.
Calmar empties a little on a working day
725 residents of Calmar had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 405 people had theirs in Calmar, wherever they lived.
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out. Of those who commute, 19% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
81% of Calmar’s residents in work leave it to work; Leduc takes the most
- Leduc185
- Edmonton135
- Leduc County100
- Fort McMurray35
- Thorsby30
- Devon25
- Parkland County25
- Spruce Grove20
- Warburg10
- Drayton Valley10
In the other direction the biggest source is Leduc County, with 85.
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 Calmar work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
How Calmar’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 67% of Canadian towns.
That puts Calmar 7% below the median of Alberta’s towns, $92,250. Of the 212 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 11, 134 have a higher median. 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: 7% of commuters in Calmar
The middle of Alberta’s towns has 2.5% walking; here, 5.9% do. 90% drive to work, more than the 88% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 11% against 21%. Few ride transit: 1.1%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
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. 11, 30% more people receive EI than in 2019
January 2021 was the busiest month, with 97,990 people on EI, 3.1 times 2019’s average. That is about 4.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 5%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: Census Division No. 11. 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 Calmar is: B+
Better than 67% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Calmar, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Calmar | 71% | 14% | $86K | 30 min | C | B+ |
| Devon 11.2 km | 74% | 9.6% | $95K | 27.4 min | B− | B |
| Leduc County 11.3 km | 80% | 9.5% | $107K | 32.4 min | B | C− |
| Leduc 16.4 km | 74% | 12% | $100K | 25.3 min | B+ | 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 Calmar, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. The census-week jobless rate for residents 15 and over. Its base is the labour force, those employed plus those actively looking.
- Household income. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- 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.
- Employment Insurance. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
Questions about work in Calmar
What is the average household income in Calmar?
The median household in Calmar had $85,900 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Calmar get to work?
90% of commuters drive, 1.1% take public transit and 5.9% walk; 11% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Calmar?
The average commute is 30 minutes; 20% of trips take under 15 minutes and 6.4% an hour or more.
Where do people in Calmar work?
Only 19% work in Calmar itself; the rest go first to Leduc (185) and Edmonton (135).
How many jobs are there in Calmar?
The 2021 census found about 405 people with their usual workplace in Calmar, or 0.6 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 149 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Calmar?
The 2021 census found 14% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Edmonton metro area, is 7.1% (October 2026).
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).