Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Pleasantview trails that of 81% of Canadian towns
Pleasantview had an unemployment rate of 14% at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Transit is the way to work for 18% of commuters here. Before tax, the typical household in Pleasantview brought in $78,400 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
Pleasantview at work: what stands out
Fewer people in work than most towns
With 67% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 54% of all adults employed. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 7.1% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 14%, 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.
Jobs and income in Pleasantview earn C
Better than 33% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #360 of 474 in Alberta.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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.
Pleasantview at work: 67% of people aged 15 to 64
Of the 211 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 11, 65 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting those looking for work too, 63% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 54%: many residents are past working age. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 64% in October 2026. 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 Pleasantview: households
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 52% of Canadian towns.
Pleasantview’s median is 15% below the middle of Alberta’s towns ($92,250). 161 of the 211 other places of 2,500+ in Census Division No. 11 have a higher median. 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).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 23% of Pleasantview’s commuters
28% of everyone in work worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. The car takes 74% of commuters here, under the 88% in the middle of Alberta’s towns.
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
Roughly 4.2 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 5%. The highest month was January 2021: 97,990 people, 3.1 times the 2019 level.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Data for EI beneficiaries covers 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).
Pleasantview grades A+ for walkability
Better than almost every Canadian town on two measures together, #20 of 474 in Alberta.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Pleasantview is 540th of 794 Canadian towns of 2,600 to 5,100 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 538 | Albany Alberta | 3,015 | 36% | 10% | $91K | C |
| 539 | Northmount Alberta | 3,349 | 64% | 17% | $88K | C |
| 540 | Pleasantview Alberta | 3,746 | 67% | 14% | $78K | C |
| 541 | Shippagan New Brunswick | 4,721 | 69% | 11% | $61K | C |
| 542 | Sussex New Brunswick | 2,742 | 74% | 11% | $73K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 794 | 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 Pleasantview, and others among Alberta’s towns.
Pleasantview and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pleasantview | 67% | 14% | $78K | 23.4 min | C | A+ |
| Empire Park 0.8 km | 62% | 15% | $66K | 27.7 min | D | A+ |
| Malmo Plains 1.2 km | 67% | 13% | $104K | 25 min | B− | A+ |
| Allendale 1.2 km | 69% | 14% | $83K | 23 min | B− | A+ |
| Duggan 1.9 km | 69% | 13% | $86K | 23.1 min | B− | A+ |
| Royal Gardens 2.1 km | 69% | 15% | $82K | 28.8 min | C− | A+ |
| McKernan 2.4 km | 68% | 16% | $95K | 21.1 min | B | 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 Pleasantview, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. Commuting flows and Statistics Canada’s timed averages stop at the municipality, so Edmonton’s page carries them; Pleasantview’s own figures sum its dissemination areas.
Questions about work in Pleasantview
How do people in Pleasantview get to work?
By car: 74% of commuters, 18% take public transit and 4.7% walk; on census day 28% of those in work worked from home.
How many jobs are there in Pleasantview?
Jobs and commuting flows exist only for Edmonton as a whole, and its page carries them.
What is the unemployment rate in Pleasantview?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Edmonton metro area at 7.1%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 14%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Pleasantview?
The median household in Pleasantview had $78,400 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).