Mactaggart’s household incomes are higher than in 97% of Canadian towns
Workers in Mactaggart spend 25.8 minutes on the way to work on average (26 in the middle of Canadian towns). At the 2021 census, Mactaggart sat at the middle of Canadian towns on work: 73% of 15-to-64s had a job. Out of work in May 2021: 9% of Mactaggart’s labour force, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
The work figures that set Mactaggart apart
Work near the middle
Counting everyone 15 and over, 62% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 73%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $121,700 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Mactaggart earns B+ for jobs and income
Better than 68% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #134 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.
What households earned in Mactaggart: $121,700 in 2020
31 of the 211 other places of 2,500+ in Census Division No. 11 have a higher median. That puts Mactaggart 32% above the median of Alberta’s towns, $92,250. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
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 Mactaggart
Of the 211 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 11, 128 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting those looking for work too, 69% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. In October 2026, 64% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. 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: 7.4% of commuters in Mactaggart
Home was the workplace for 28%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 21%. Transit takes 4.5% of commuters, above the 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 91% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
30% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 11 than in 2019
In January 2021 it reached 97,990, the most in the series and 3.1 times the 2019 average. That is about 4.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 5%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: 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).
The Walkability grade for Mactaggart: A−
Better than 78% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #283 of 474 in Alberta.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Mactaggart next to Canadian towns of 2,500 to 4,900: 256th of 795 on 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 19 | Garrison Woods Alberta | 3,138 | 79% | 10% | $146K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 25 | Wainwright No. 61 Alberta | 4,576 | 84% | 5.5% | $108K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 254 | Cardston Alberta | 3,863 | 75% | 7.3% | $76K | B+ |
| 255 | Radisson Manitoba | 3,653 | 76% | 8.2% | $92K | B+ |
| 256 | Mactaggart Alberta | 3,603 | 73% | 9% | $122K | B+ |
| 257 | Penhold Alberta | 3,812 | 74% | 11% | $99K | B+ |
| 258 | Roxton Pond Quebec | 4,884 | 83% | 6% | $79K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 795 | 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 Mactaggart, and others among Alberta’s towns.
Work in the places around Mactaggart
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mactaggart | 73% | 9% | $122K | 25.8 min | B+ | A− |
| Magrath Heights 1.2 km | 74% | 14% | $161K | 25.5 min | B+ | A− |
| South Terwillegar 1.4 km | 73% | 12% | $111K | 28.5 min | B− | B+ |
| Twin Brooks 1.8 km | 73% | 11% | $137K | 26.1 min | B+ | B+ |
| Terwillegar Towne 1.9 km | 77% | 9.1% | $131K | 27.4 min | B+ | A− |
| Ogilvie Ridge 2 km | 79% | 11% | $121K | 27 min | A− | A− |
| MacEwan 2 km | 75% | 10% | $94K | 28.4 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 Mactaggart, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. Mactaggart’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 Edmonton’s page.
Questions about work in Mactaggart
What is the average household income in Mactaggart?
Mactaggart’s middle household had $121,700 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Mactaggart get to work?
91% of commuters go by car, 4.5% take public transit and 2.9% walk. On census day 28% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How many jobs are there in Mactaggart?
There is no count for a neighbourhood: the jobs figure, and where commuters go, are published for Edmonton as one municipality.
What is the unemployment rate in Mactaggart?
Two figures answer it: 9% 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.
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).