Photo: Felspar13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Alexander works elsewhere: the town has 0.5 jobs for each resident in work
Alexander counted 63% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. For 15% of commuters in Alexander, the trip to work lasts an hour or more; the average is 28.5 minutes. The median household in Alexander had $72,100 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
What Alexander’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 63% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 42%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $72,100 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. 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 & income in Alexander: graded D
Better than 10% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #173 of 185 in Manitoba.
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.
How many in Alexander were working in 2021
A smaller share in work than in 89% of Canadian towns.
Counting those looking for work too, 47% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 42% were working. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 66% in October 2026. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
Household income in Alexander
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 61% of Canadian towns.
Set beside Manitoba’s towns, where the median is $83,900, Alexander sits 14% below. 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).
A commuter town: Alexander sends out more workers than it takes in
Each person commuting in is matched by about 3 residents going out. The job is inside the municipality for 24% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
76% of Alexander’s residents in work leave it to work; Winnipeg takes the most
- Powerview-Pine Falls120
- Winnipeg45
- Lac du Bonnet20
- Victoria Beach20
- St. Adolphe15
- East St. Paul10
- St. Andrews10
- St. Clements10
- Winnipeg200
- Powerview-Pine Falls110
- Lac du Bonnet70
- Oakbank30
- Selkirk30
- Fort Alexander 330
- Pinawa20
- Division No. 1, Unorganized20
- Beausejour20
- Division No. 23, Unorganized20
Coming the other way, Powerview-Pine Falls sends the most (120).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
6.6% of commuters from Alexander go without a car
Only 19% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Few ride transit: 2.2%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. Nearly everyone drives: 91% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
Commuting times in Alexander
The middle of Manitoba’s towns averages 23.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 37%, fewer than the 46% in the middle of Manitoba’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 28 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 Census Division No. 1, 7% more people receive EI than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 5.3 receive EI. The count topped out in January 2021 at 1,310 people, 1.9 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 Census Division No. 1. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Getting around Alexander on foot earns B−
Better than 49% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #155 of 185 in Manitoba.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
684th of 766: where Alexander ranks among Canadian towns of 2,800 to 5,400
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| 2 | Cornwallis Manitoba | 4,705 | 85% | 2.1% | $99K | A+ |
| 3 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 4,455 | 81% | 6.5% | $118K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | South Tuxedo Manitoba | 3,629 | 85% | 6.8% | $110K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 682 | Killarney Alberta | 4,165 | 56% | 20% | $70K | D |
| 683 | Sainte-Clotilde Quebec | 3,297 | 55% | 8.1% | $81K | D |
| 684 | Alexander Manitoba | 4,032 | 63% | 12% | $72K | D |
| 685 | Saint-André-Avellin Quebec | 3,862 | 69% | 12% | $63K | D |
| 686 | Billings Bridge - Heron Park Ontario | 5,370 | 66% | 13% | $59K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 766 | Saint-Côme Quebec | 2,810 | 58% | 14% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Alexander, and others among Manitoba’s towns.
Work in and around Alexander
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alexander | 63% | 12% | $72K | 28.5 min | D | B− |
| Powerview-Pine Falls 5 km | 54% | 13% | $62K | 22 min | D | A+ |
| Fort Alexander 3 11.2 km | 36% | 22% | $49K | 19.1 min | D | 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 Alexander, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Jobs count everyone whose usual workplace lies in the municipality, residents or commuters from elsewhere, from Statistics Canada’s home-by-workplace table.
- 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.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada surveys households every month; the results come out for metro areas and economic regions, never for single towns, and keep the rate current after 2021.
- 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. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- 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. 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 Alexander
What is the unemployment rate in Alexander?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.1% for the Southeast economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Alexander?
At $72,100 before tax in 2020, the median household in Alexander compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Alexander get to work?
91% of commuters drive, 2.2% take public transit and 4.4% walk; 19% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Alexander?
The average commute is 28.5 minutes; 37% of trips take under 15 minutes and 15% an hour or more.
Where do people in Alexander work?
24% work in Alexander itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Winnipeg (200), then Powerview-Pine Falls (110).
How many jobs are there in Alexander?
The 2021 census found about 465 people with their usual workplace in Alexander, or 0.5 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 81 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
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).