Photo: Unknown author Unknown author · Public domainTofield has a larger share of its working-age people in jobs than 83% of Canadian towns
The 2021 census put unemployment in Tofield at 12%, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns. Workers in Tofield spend 30.4 minutes on the way to work on average, and 12% need an hour or more. Before tax, the typical household in Tofield brought in $74,600 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
What Tofield’s work numbers say
More people in work than most towns
Counting everyone 15 and over, 58% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 82%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 30.4 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 12% 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.
Jobs and income in Tofield earn C+
Better than 43% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
Tofield at work: 82% of people aged 15 to 64
Of the 10 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 10, 8 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 57% in October 2026. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 66% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 58%: many residents are past working age. 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.
Commuting times in Tofield
Trips under 15 minutes: 42%, more than the 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 28.2 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Alberta’s towns averages 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.
100% of Tofield’s residents in work leave it to work; Beaver County takes the most
No other place sends enough people to work in Tofield to be counted.
- Beaver County255
- Edmonton115
- Lamont65
- Strathcona County65
- Camrose40
- Ryley25
- Leduc County15
- Viking10
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Earnings at home in Tofield: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 55% of Canadian towns.
8 of the 10 other places of 2,500+ in Census Division No. 10 have a higher median. The middle of Alberta’s towns is $92,250, and Tofield is 19% below it. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
7.9% of commuters in Tofield walk, cycle or take transit
Nearly everyone drives: 91% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 13% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
5% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 10 than in 2019
Roughly 3.5 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 4%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 5,330 people on EI, 2.8 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for Census Division No. 10, not by town. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Walking in Tofield earns A−
Better than 79% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Tofield and its neighbours: work and income
Tofield has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 11–44 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tofield | 82% | 12% | $75K | 30.4 min | C+ | A− |
| Beaver County 10.9 km | 70% | 11% | $94K | 38.7 min | C− | D |
| Camrose 42 km | 73% | 13% | $77K | 18.9 min | B | B+ |
| Vegreville 42.3 km | 71% | 9.8% | $70K | 18.3 min | B− | A |
| Strathcona County 43.1 km | 77% | 9.1% | $124K | 25.3 min | A− | B |
| Lamont County 43.6 km | 82% | 7.7% | $86K | 34.8 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 Tofield, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. Of everyone 15 or older who was working or job-hunting in the census week, the part still looking. Someone not seeking work isn’t in it at all.
- 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. 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
Questions about work in Tofield
Where do people in Tofield work?
0% work in Tofield itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Beaver County (255), then Edmonton (115).
What is the unemployment rate in Tofield?
The 2021 census found 12% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Camrose-Drumheller economic region, is 8.8% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Tofield?
Before tax, half the households in Tofield had more than $74,600 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Tofield get to work?
91% of commuters go by car, 7.9% walk. On census day 13% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Tofield?
On average 30.4 minutes; 42% take under 15 minutes and 12% take an hour or longer.
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).