Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Killarney’s household incomes are higher than in 74% of Canadian towns
A typical one-way commute from Killarney lasts 31.2 minutes, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. Public transit carries 18% of its commuters. Killarney counted 74% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What Killarney’s work numbers say
Work near the middle
In work at the 2021 census: 74% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 59% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 31.2 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work ↓
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, Killarney grades C
Better than 35% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #184 of 254 in British Columbia.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Walking, cycling or transit: 22% of Killarney’s commuters
Fewer drive than in the middle of British Columbia’s towns: 75% against 87%. 27% of everyone in work 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).
Who in Killarney has a job
Of the 95 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Greater Vancouver census division, 54 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 59% of residents 15 and over were in work. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 63% of the wider area’s adults in work. Counting those looking for work too, 65% of people aged 15 and over were 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.
What households earned in Killarney: $89,700 in 2020
Killarney’s median is 3% above the middle of British Columbia’s towns ($86,900). 59 of the 95 other places of 2,500+ in the Greater Vancouver census division have a higher median. The year is 2020: emergency benefits like CERB count in these incomes, and they raised the bottom of the range.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
63% more people are on EI in the Greater Vancouver census division than in 2019
At its peak, in January 2021, 117,570 people were on EI, 3.3 times the 2019 average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.6 receive EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count rose by 4%.
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 Greater Vancouver 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).
Killarney on foot: a A+ grade
Better than almost every Canadian town on two measures together, #42 of 254 in British Columbia.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Killarney is 136th of 225 Canadian towns of 22,500 to 43,400 people for jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 80% | 5.8% | $148K | A+ |
| 2 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 82% | 5.6% | $112K | A+ |
| 3 | Arcola East Saskatchewan | 33,823 | 79% | 7.7% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Fort St. John British Columbia | 24,383 | 76% | 8.9% | $102K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Squamish British Columbia | 28,578 | 83% | 6.8% | $112K | A |
| 17 | Colwood British Columbia | 22,794 | 80% | 5.1% | $102K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 134 | Banbury-Don Mills Ontario | 27,472 | 73% | 11% | $93K | C+ |
| 135 | Sainte-Thérèse Quebec | 27,253 | 80% | 7.8% | $65K | C+ |
| 136 | Killarney British Columbia | 32,167 | 74% | 9.5% | $90K | C |
| 137 | Du Moulin Quebec | 30,364 | 71% | 9.4% | $78K | C |
| 138 | Langley British Columbia | 35,444 | 77% | 6.9% | $77K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 225 | Parc-Extension Quebec | 29,066 | 61% | 16% | $48K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Killarney, and others among British Columbia’s towns.
The work picture around Killarney
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Killarney | 74% | 9.5% | $90K | 31.2 min | C | A+ |
| Collingwood 2 km | 76% | 9.4% | $79K | 32.8 min | C | A+ |
| Victoria-Fraserview 2.1 km | 71% | 10% | $87K | 31.5 min | C− | A+ |
| Norquay Village 2.5 km | 69% | 11% | $87K | 31.1 min | C− | A+ |
| Metrotown 2.7 km | 71% | 11% | $64K | 32.5 min | D | A+ |
| South Slope 2.8 km | 70% | 9.4% | $104K | 29.6 min | C+ | A |
| Garden Village 2.9 km | 67% | 11% | $103K | 31.7 min | C | 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 Killarney, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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.
- Employment Insurance. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- 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. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. Killarney’s census figures are summed from its dissemination areas. Commuting flows and Statistics Canada’s timed averages are published only for the whole municipality, so they are on Vancouver’s page.
Questions about work in Killarney
How many jobs are there in Killarney?
Statistics Canada counts jobs for whole municipalities only; Vancouver has the total and the commuting flows.
What is the unemployment rate in Killarney?
Two figures answer it: 9.5% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.7% for the Vancouver metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Killarney?
Before tax, half the households in Killarney had more than $89,700 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Killarney get to work?
75% of commuters drive, 18% take public transit, 2% walk and 1.6% cycle; 27% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · 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).