Photo: Sandy Busche · CC BY 3.0Taylor has higher household incomes than 90% of Canadian towns
365 people have their usual place of work in Taylor, against 435 residents who travel to a job. At the 2021 census, 70% of Taylor’s 15-to-64s were in work, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Taylor had an unemployment rate of 12% at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What sets Taylor apart on jobs and income
Work near the middle
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 70% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 60%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $104,900 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.
Jobs and income in Taylor earn B
Better than 57% 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.
Median household income in Taylor: $104,900 in 2020
Taylor’s median is 21% above the middle of British Columbia’s towns ($86,900). One of the 7 other places of 2,500+ in the Peace River census division has a higher median. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Each working day, more people leave Taylor for work than come in
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
81% of Taylor’s residents in work leave it to work; Fort St. John takes the most
In the other direction the biggest source is Fort St. John, with 160.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In and out of work in Taylor
None of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Peace River census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 68%. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 65% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. The census caught the labour market on 11 May 2021, deep in the pandemic, so unemployment and working from home both ran above normal.
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.
Without a car, 5.2% of Taylor’s commuters get to work
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 93% of commuters. Only 6.5% worked at home on census day, against 21% 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).
At 25.2 minutes, commutes from Taylor are close to the middle of Canadian towns
In the middle of British Columbia’s towns, the average commute is 26.4 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 20%, fewer than the 39% in the middle of British Columbia’s towns. Long trips, an hour or more, are about as common as in the middle of British Columbia’s towns: 6.1%. Timed exactly, the average is 21.2 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.
In the Peace River census division, 11% more people receive EI than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 4.4 receive EI. At its peak, in April 2021, 3,610 people were on EI, 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 published for the Peace River census division, 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).
Everyday places on foot in Taylor: B+
Better than 71% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How the places next to Taylor compare on work
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Taylor | 70% | 12% | $105K | 25.2 min | B | B+ |
| Fort St. John 13.4 km | 76% | 8.9% | $102K | 17.1 min | A+ | A− |
| Electoral Area C, Peace River 17.4 km | 76% | 7.6% | $124K | 22.4 min | A | D |
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 Taylor, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- 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. 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. 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. 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.
- 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 Taylor
What is the average household income in Taylor?
The median household in Taylor had $104,900 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Taylor get to work?
93% of commuters drive, 5.2% walk; 6.5% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Taylor?
The average commute is 25.2 minutes; 20% of trips take under 15 minutes and 6.1% an hour or more.
Where do people in Taylor work?
19% work in Taylor itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Fort St. John (270), then Electoral Area C, Peace River (30).
How many jobs are there in Taylor?
The 2021 census found about 365 people with their usual workplace in Taylor, or 0.8 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 61 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Taylor?
The census put unemployment at 12% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Northeast economic region at 5.1%.
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).