Photo: Green slash · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Sun Peaks Mountain are higher than in 69% of Canadian towns
Sun Peaks Mountain had an unemployment rate of 11% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Of Sun Peaks Mountain’s residents aged 15 to 64, 71% were employed when the 2021 census was taken, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Commutes from Sun Peaks Mountain average 23.9 minutes, and 11% take an hour or more.
The work figures that set Sun Peaks Mountain apart
Work near the middle
The 2021 census found 71% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 60%. In work ↓
More jobs than the typical town
With 440 jobs based in Sun Peaks Mountain and 390 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Jobs & income in Sun Peaks Mountain: graded B−
Better than 49% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
On a working day Sun Peaks Mountain gains 9% in workers
Of those who commute, 72% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
160 people come into Sun Peaks Mountain to work, most from Kamloops and Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola
36% of the people who work in Sun Peaks Mountain live outside it, 70 of them in Kamloops, 39 km away. The main destination the other way is Kamloops, with 55.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Work for 71% of 15-to-64s in Sun Peaks Mountain
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Thompson-Nicola census division, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 61% in October 2026. Working or looking, 67% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
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.
The median household in Sun Peaks Mountain had $86,700 in 2020
2 of the 6 other places of 2,500+ in the Thompson-Nicola census division have a higher median. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
Leaving the car at home: 25% of commuters in Sun Peaks Mountain
The car takes 67% of commuters here, under the 87% in the middle of British Columbia’s towns. 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).
Time on the road to work from Sun Peaks Mountain
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 23.3 minutes. The middle of British Columbia’s towns averages 26.4 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 63%, more 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.
In the Thompson-Nicola census division, 14% more people receive EI than in 2019
Over the year to August 2026, the count rose by 2%. In February 2021 it reached 7,510, the most in the series and 2.4 times the 2019 average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.9 receive EI.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Data for EI beneficiaries covers the Thompson-Nicola 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).
Walkability in Sun Peaks Mountain: graded A
Better than 95% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Sun Peaks Mountain, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sun Peaks Mountain | 71% | 11% | $87K | 23.9 min | B− | A |
| Electoral Area P (Rivers and the Peaks), Thompson-Nicola 15.5 km | 75% | 7.7% | $94K | 33.2 min | C+ | D |
| Chase 15.8 km | 70% | 9.4% | $61K | 29.4 min | D | 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 Sun Peaks Mountain, 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. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- In work. Why 15 to 64? Otherwise retirees would pull the rate down in older towns. The census can’t say how old a neighbourhood’s workers are, so the count of people in work takes every age.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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.
Questions about work in Sun Peaks Mountain
What is the average household income in Sun Peaks Mountain?
The median household in Sun Peaks Mountain had $86,700 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Sun Peaks Mountain get to work?
Driving takes 67% of commuters to work, 25% walk, and on census day 25% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Sun Peaks Mountain?
About 23.9 minutes on average, with 63% under a quarter-hour and 11% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Sun Peaks Mountain work?
72% work in Sun Peaks Mountain itself; of those who leave, the most go to Kamloops (55), then Kamloops 1 (20).
How many jobs are there in Sun Peaks Mountain?
Some 440 people worked in Sun Peaks Mountain at the 2021 census: 1.1 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 71 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Sun Peaks Mountain?
Two figures answer it: 11% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.4% for the Kamloops metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
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).