Photo: EzBergs · CC BY-SA 4.0Almost every Canadian town has more of its working-age people in jobs than Kehewin 123
An hour or more each way is the commute for 7% of workers in Kehewin 123; the average is 17.8 minutes. Median household income in Kehewin 123 was $67,000 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Census day 2021 found 32% of Kehewin 123’s labour force without a job, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Kehewin 123 and work: the main findings
Fewer people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 37% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 33%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 32% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 5.6% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $67,000 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 17.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 7% last an hour or longer. 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.
Kehewin 123 earns C− for jobs and income
Better than 24% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
In Kehewin 123, 37% of the working-age population has a job
None of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 12 has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 47%. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 71% 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 Kehewin 123: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 73% of Canadian towns.
Set beside Alberta’s towns, where the median is $92,250, Kehewin 123 sits 27% below. Every other place of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 12 has a higher median. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
How long the commute from Kehewin 123 takes
A quarter-hour or less for 70% of commuters, against 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 18.8 minutes. In the middle of Alberta’s towns, the average commute is 25.8 minutes.
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.
Walking, cycling or transit: 0% of Kehewin 123’s commuters
The car is the way to work for 93% of commuters. Only 6.5% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, 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.
12% fewer people are on EI in Census Division No. 12 than in 2019
That is about 4.2 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 17%. The count topped out in July 2021 at 4,190 people, 2.2 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Not measured by town: EI beneficiaries (Census Division No. 12). EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Kehewin 123 grades D− for walkability
Better than 5% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Kehewin 123, side by side
Kehewin 123 has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 20–27 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kehewin 123 | 37% | 32% | $67K | 17.8 min | C− | D− |
| Bonnyville 20 km | 72% | 10% | $85K | 18.7 min | B+ | A− |
| Elk Point 22.6 km | 72% | 11% | $79K | 20.8 min | B− | A− |
| Bonnyville No. 87 27.2 km | 72% | 10% | $113K | 28.9 min | B− | C− |
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 Kehewin 123, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Household income. The 2020 income of the household at the midpoint, all sources and before tax. Inside a city we rebuild it from the dissemination areas’ income bands, so there it is an estimate.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
- A First Nations reserve. Kehewin 123’s figures are its own, though Statistics Canada rounds or suppresses some for small communities. A reserve has no overall grade and sits in no ranked list.
Questions about work in Kehewin 123
How do people in Kehewin 123 get to work?
Driving takes 93% of commuters to work, and on census day 6.5% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Kehewin 123?
About 17.8 minutes on average, with 70% under a quarter-hour and 7% at an hour or longer.
What is the unemployment rate in Kehewin 123?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Wood Buffalo-Cold Lake economic region at 5.6%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 32%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Kehewin 123?
The census puts Kehewin 123 at $67,000 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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) · 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).