Photo: Qyd · CC BY 2.5The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Vauxhall trails that of 77% of Canadian towns
Vauxhall is the usual workplace of 485 people, and 355 of its own residents commute to a job. The median household in Vauxhall had $73,100 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Unemployment in Vauxhall stood at 3.7% on census day 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Vauxhall and work: the main findings
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 3.7% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 6.3% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
A local job centre
With 485 jobs based in Vauxhall and 355 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 21.1 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.1% 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.
Vauxhall earns C+ for jobs and income
Better than 38% 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 Vauxhall, 69% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 10 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 2, one 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 63%. In October 2026, 59% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
Vauxhall fills up on a working day: 32% more workers
Inbound commuters outnumber outbound ones about 2 to 1 in Vauxhall. Of those who commute, 57% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
At 21.1 minutes, commutes from Vauxhall are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 17.2 minutes. In the middle of Alberta’s towns, the average commute is 25.8 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 48% of commuters, against 39% in the middle of Alberta’s towns. Long trips are rarer than in the middle of Alberta’s towns: 2.1% take an hour or more, against 7%.
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.
282 people come into Vauxhall to work, most from Taber and Taber
58% of the people who work in Vauxhall live outside it, 155 of them in Taber, 18 km away. The main destination the other way is Taber, with 50.
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 Vauxhall work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
How Vauxhall’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 59% of Canadian towns.
Every other place of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 2 has a higher median. Against the middle of Alberta’s towns ($92,250), Vauxhall’s median is 21% below. 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).
11% of commuters from Vauxhall go without a car
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The middle of Alberta’s towns has 2.5% walking; here, 8.5% do. 89% drive to work, more than 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
In Census Division No. 2, 27% more people receive EI than in 2019
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. At its peak, in January 2021, 8,020 people were on EI, 2.7 times the 2019 average. Roughly 3.3 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI.
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. 2. 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 Vauxhall earns A
Better than 94% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The work picture around Vauxhall
No closer places have figures: these lie 18–36 km from Vauxhall.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Vauxhall | 69% | 3.7% | $73K | 21.1 min | C+ | A |
| Taber 18 km | 69% | 5.4% | $88K | 22.9 min | B− | C− |
| Taber 31.2 km | 74% | 6.5% | $82K | 16 min | A− | B− |
| Barnwell 36.3 km | 62% | 6.9% | $97K | 24.9 min | C+ | 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 Vauxhall, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Who travels where, from the census: workers with a regular workplace, sorted by the municipality they live in and the one they work in.
- 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. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- Unemployment. The census-week jobless rate for residents 15 and over. Its base is the labour force, those employed plus those actively looking.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
Questions about work in Vauxhall
How many jobs are there in Vauxhall?
Some 485 people worked in Vauxhall at the 2021 census: 1.4 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 76 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Vauxhall?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 3.7% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Lethbridge-Medicine Hat economic region at 6.3% in October 2026.
How do people in Vauxhall get to work?
Driving takes 89% of commuters to work, 8.5% walk and 2.1% cycle, and on census day 11% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Vauxhall?
About 21.1 minutes on average, with 48% under a quarter-hour and 2.1% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Vauxhall work?
57% work in Vauxhall itself; of those who leave, the most go to Taber (50), then Taber (35).
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).