Photo: HS01 · CC BY-SA 4.0Working-age people in Dufferin are more likely to have a job than in 92% of Canadian towns
Half the households in Dufferin had more than $90,400 in 2020, before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Jobs located in Dufferin: 55, for 705 residents with a usual workplace. Out of work in May 2021: 2.4% of Dufferin’s labour force, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Dufferin’s work numbers say
More people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 85% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 73%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment, 2.4% at the 2021 census, compares with 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 22.1 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.5% last an hour or longer. The trip to work ↓
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 Dufferin earn A+
Better than 97% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #13 of 185 in Manitoba.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
Dufferin at work: 85% of people aged 15 to 64
All 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 73%. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 75%. The census was taken on 11 May 2021, mid-pandemic, when lockdowns had pushed unemployment up and sent many to work from home.
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.
At 22.1 minutes, commutes from Dufferin are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
An hour or more: 6.5% of commuters, above the 5.5% in the middle of Manitoba’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19 minutes. The middle of Manitoba’s towns averages 23.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 50%, more than the 46% in the middle of Manitoba’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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More workers leave Dufferin each day than arrive
705 residents of Dufferin had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 55 people had theirs in Dufferin, wherever they lived.
About 17 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. The job is inside the municipality for 2% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
98% of Dufferin’s residents in work leave it to work; Carman takes the most
Coming the other way, Carman sends the most (25).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
2021 Census, people with a usual place of work: where residents of Dufferin work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Household income in Dufferin
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 75% of Canadian towns.
No other place of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 3 has a higher median. That puts Dufferin 8% above the median of Manitoba’s towns, $83,900. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 4.9% of Dufferin’s commuters
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Working at home: 26% here, 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
77% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 3 than in 2019
Nobody publishes EI beneficiaries for Dufferin alone, so this card uses the figure for Census Division No. 3.
That is about 5.4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Over the year to August 2026, the count rose by 24%. February 2021 was the busiest month, with 2,170 people on EI, 2.3 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. 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 Dufferin is: C
Better than 28% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #167 of 185 in Manitoba.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 3,500, Dufferin ranks 24th of 424 for jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | South River Heights Manitoba | 2,632 | 84% | 5.3% | $112K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | McDougall Ontario | 3,002 | 82% | 9.6% | $93K | A+ |
| 23 | Havre-Saint-Pierre Quebec | 3,389 | 76% | 6.6% | $96K | A+ |
| 24 | Dufferin Manitoba | 2,587 | 85% | 2.4% | $90K | A+ |
| 25 | Erlton Alberta | 3,221 | 79% | 10% | $116K | A+ |
| 26 | Meadow Lake No. 588 Saskatchewan | 2,712 | 89% | 3.7% | $89K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 424 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Dufferin, and others among Manitoba’s towns.
Jobs near Dufferin: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dufferin | 85% | 2.4% | $90K | 22.1 min | A+ | C |
| Carman 6.5 km | 80% | 5.2% | $67K | 21.7 min | B | A |
| Grey 16.4 km | 79% | 5.2% | $73K | 27.2 min | C+ | B+ |
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 Dufferin, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- In work. Everyone with a job, whatever their age, divided by the residents aged 15 to 64 at the 2021 Census: below the municipality the census doesn’t split work by age, and this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood can be given.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Dufferin
How do people in Dufferin get to work?
Driving takes 95% of commuters to work, 4.9% walk, and on census day 26% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Dufferin?
About 22.1 minutes on average, with 50% under a quarter-hour and 6.5% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Dufferin work?
2% work in Dufferin itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Carman (455), then Grey (70).
How many jobs are there in Dufferin?
Some 55 people worked in Dufferin at the 2021 census: 0.1 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 21 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Dufferin?
At the 2021 census, unemployment stood at 2.4%; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What is the average household income in Dufferin?
The census puts Dufferin at $90,400 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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, 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).