Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMost of Electoral Area C, qathet works elsewhere: the town has 0.5 jobs for each resident in work
Jobs were held by 64% of people aged 15 to 64 in Electoral Area C, qathet in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Median household income in Electoral Area C, qathet was $64,700 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Electoral Area C, qathet had an unemployment rate of 13% at the 2021 census, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
What Electoral Area C, qathet’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
64% of people aged 15 to 64 had a job at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; counting everyone 15 and over, retirees included, it was 41%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $64,700 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
On jobs and income, Electoral Area C, qathet grades D
Better than 12% 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 and out of work in Electoral Area C, qathet
A smaller share in work than in 88% of Canadian towns.
Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 47%. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 41% of residents 15 and over were in work. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 56% in work in October 2026. 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.
What households in Electoral Area C, qathet earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
Electoral Area C, qathet’s median is 26% below the middle of British Columbia’s towns ($86,900). These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes 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).
More workers leave Electoral Area C, qathet each day than arrive
About 3 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. The job is inside the municipality for 18% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
82% of Electoral Area C, qathet’s residents in work leave it to work; Powell River takes the most
- Powell River75
- Electoral Area B, qathet25
- Sliammon 110
Coming the other way, Powell River sends the most (75).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
4.2% of commuters from Electoral Area C, qathet go without a car
The car is the way to work for 91% of commuters. 21% worked at home on census day, about the same as in the middle of Canadian towns. Few ride transit: 1.7%, 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).
24.6 minutes from Electoral Area C, qathet to work, about the middle of Canadian towns
An hour or more: 5% of commuters, under the 6.3% in the middle of British Columbia’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 23.2 minutes (Statistics Canada). In the middle of British Columbia’s towns, the average commute is 26.4 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 19%, fewer than the 39% in the middle of British Columbia’s towns.
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.
EI claims in the Powell River census division run 21% above their 2019 level
That works out to around 4.2 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 11%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 950 people, 2.4 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: one figure for all of the Powell River census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
How walkable Electoral Area C, qathet is: C+
Better than 36% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to Electoral Area C, qathet
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Electoral Area C, qathet | 64% | 13% | $65K | 24.6 min | D | C+ |
| Electoral Area B, qathet 8.9 km | 72% | 5.4% | $65K | 16.4 min | B− | C− |
| Electoral Area D, qathet 13 km | 60% | 15% | $55K | 20.9 min | D | B+ |
| Powell River 13.1 km | 71% | 7.7% | $67K | 14.7 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 Electoral Area C, qathet, 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. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- Where people commute. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- 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 Electoral Area C, qathet
What is the average household income in Electoral Area C, qathet?
The census puts Electoral Area C, qathet at $64,700 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Electoral Area C, qathet get to work?
91% of commuters go by car, 1.7% take public transit and 2.5% walk. On census day 21% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Electoral Area C, qathet?
On average 24.6 minutes; 19% take under 15 minutes and 5% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Electoral Area C, qathet work?
18% work in Electoral Area C, qathet itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Powell River (315), then Electoral Area B, qathet (15).
How many jobs are there in Electoral Area C, qathet?
About 185 people had their usual place of work in Electoral Area C, qathet at the 2021 census, 0.5 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 70 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Electoral Area C, qathet?
The census put unemployment at 13% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Vancouver Island and Coast economic region at 5.2%.
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).