Photo: Kurt Bauschardt from Edmonton, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0A smaller share of people aged 15 to 64 are in work in Millet than in 79% of Canadian towns
In 2020, a household at the middle of Millet had $80,800 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. Millet is the usual workplace of 335 people, and 520 of its own residents commute to a job. From Millet, the drive or ride to work averages 29.7 minutes, with 8.9% going an hour or longer.
Work in Millet: the figures worth knowing
Fewer people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 68% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 51%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 29.7 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 8.9% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Millet: C−
Better than 18% 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 Millet, 68% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 212 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 11, 76 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 57%. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 51%: many residents are past working age. In October 2026, 63% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
Time on the road to work from Millet
The middle of Alberta’s towns averages 25.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 19%, fewer than the 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 27.3 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.
More of Millet’s workers leave each day than arrive
About 2 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. Of those who commute, 12% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
88% of Millet’s residents in work leave it to work; Leduc takes the most
- Leduc145
- Wetaskiwin100
- Leduc County90
- Edmonton80
- Camrose10
- Thorsby10
- Drayton Valley10
- Fort McMurray10
Wetaskiwin County No. 10 sends the largest group the other way, 105 people.
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 Millet work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
What households in Millet earn
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 58% of Canadian towns.
Set beside Alberta’s towns, where the median is $92,250, Millet sits 12% below. Of the 212 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 11, 156 have 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).
Walking, cycling or transit: 2.1% of Millet’s commuters
Home was the workplace for 5.8%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% 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).
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
Figures for EI beneficiaries are published for Census Division No. 11 as a whole, not for Millet alone.
At its peak, in January 2021, 97,990 people were on EI, 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. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Millet on foot: a C+ grade
Better than 38% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Next to Millet: how nearby places compare
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Millet | 68% | 9.9% | $81K | 29.7 min | C− | C+ |
| Wetaskiwin 15.5 km | 68% | 12% | $70K | 19.8 min | C | B+ |
| Leduc County 18.4 km | 80% | 9.5% | $107K | 32.4 min | B | C− |
| Leduc 19 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 Millet, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- 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. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- 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. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. The comparison pool is places of 2,500 people or more, towns or neighbourhoods inside cities, without whole cities or reserves, and we compare with its median.
Questions about work in Millet
How many jobs are there in Millet?
The 2021 census found about 335 people with their usual workplace in Millet, or 0.6 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 121 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Millet?
The 2021 census found 9.9% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Edmonton economic region, is 7.3% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Millet?
The median household in Millet had $80,800 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Millet get to work?
95% of commuters drive, 2.1% walk; 5.8% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Millet?
The average commute is 29.7 minutes; 19% of trips take under 15 minutes and 8.9% an hour or more.
Where do people in Millet work?
Only 12% work in Millet itself; the rest go first to Leduc (145) and Wetaskiwin (100).
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).