Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainHousehold incomes in Gilbert Plains trail those of 85% of Canadian towns
Jobs were held by 77% of people aged 15 to 64 in Gilbert Plains in 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. For 0% of commuters in Gilbert Plains, the trip to work lasts an hour or more; the average is 19 minutes. Of everyone in Gilbert Plains working or looking for work in May 2021, 8.4% were unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Jobs and income in Gilbert Plains: what the figures say
Lower incomes than most towns
At $61,900 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 19 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 0% 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.
Gilbert Plains earns B− for jobs and income
Better than 51% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
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.
Gilbert Plains households: $61,900 a year at the median
Gilbert Plains’ median is 26% below the middle of Manitoba’s towns ($83,900). Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for 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).
Gilbert Plains has a quicker trip to work than the middle of Canadian towns: 19 minutes
Only 42% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 46% in the middle of Manitoba’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 18.4 minutes (Statistics Canada). In the middle of Manitoba’s towns, the average commute is 23.6 minutes.
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.
Gilbert Plains empties a little on a working day
370 residents of Gilbert Plains had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 290 people had theirs in Gilbert Plains, wherever they lived.
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out. 48% of residents who commute work inside the municipality, against 70% in the middle of Canadian towns.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
52% of Gilbert Plains’ residents in work leave it to work; Dauphin takes the most
Coming the other way, Dauphin sends the most (45).
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 Gilbert Plains work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
In and out of work in Gilbert Plains
A larger share in work than in 60% of Canadian towns.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 56% of residents 15 and over were in work. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 51% of the wider area’s adults in work. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 61% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. 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, 6.3% of Gilbert Plains’ commuters get to work
The car is the way to work for 94% of commuters. Working at home: 27% here, 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
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.
19% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 17 than in 2019
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 3%. July 2021 was the busiest month, with 1,100 people on EI, 2.2 times 2019’s average. That is about 5.1 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division.
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. 17. 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 Gilbert Plains is: B
Better than 55% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Gilbert Plains, compared
Gilbert Plains has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 15–31 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gilbert Plains | 77% | 8.4% | $62K | 19 min | B− | B |
| Grandview 15.1 km | 82% | 5.7% | $59K | 22.4 min | B− | A− |
| Dauphin 24.3 km | 87% | 5% | $86K | 20.8 min | A+ | D |
| Dauphin 30.8 km | 73% | 6.6% | $61K | 12.5 min | B− | 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 Gilbert Plains, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- 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. 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.
- Where people commute. Who travels where, from the census: workers with a regular workplace, sorted by the municipality they live in and the one they work in.
- Employment Insurance. A monthly count of Employment Insurance beneficiaries for the whole census division. It tracks the local job market, but it is not an unemployment rate.
- 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. 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 Gilbert Plains
How many jobs are there in Gilbert Plains?
The 2021 census found about 290 people with their usual workplace in Gilbert Plains, or 0.8 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 74 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Gilbert Plains?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Parklands and North economic region at 5.7%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 8.4%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Gilbert Plains?
Before tax, half the households in Gilbert Plains had more than $61,900 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Gilbert Plains get to work?
94% of commuters drive, 6.3% walk; 27% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Gilbert Plains?
The average commute is 19 minutes; 42% of trips take under 15 minutes and 0% an hour or more.
Where do people in Gilbert Plains work?
48% work in Gilbert Plains itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Dauphin (165), then Grandview (25).
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).