Photo: Felspar13 · CC BY-SA 4.0Reynolds has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.5 for each
Most commutes from Reynolds take well under an hour: the average is 39.5 minutes, and 18% take 60 minutes or longer. Jobs were held by 82% of people aged 15 to 64 in Reynolds in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Median household income in Reynolds was $68,200 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
What stands out about work in Reynolds
More people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 82% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 56%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $68,200 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 39.5 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 18% take an hour or more. 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 & income in Reynolds: graded C−
Better than 24% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
How many in Reynolds were working in 2021
A more recent figure, for the wider area: 66% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Counting those looking for work too, 62% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 56%. May 2021, when the census was taken, was a pandemic spring; unemployment has come down since, as the Labour Force Survey records.
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 Reynolds
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 71% of Canadian towns.
The middle of Manitoba’s towns is $83,900, and Reynolds is 19% below it. Pandemic support paid in 2020, CERB first among it, is 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).
How long the commute from Reynolds takes
Only 15% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 46% in the middle of Manitoba’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 35.3 minutes. The middle of Manitoba’s towns averages 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.
Reynolds is quieter on a working day than at night
380 residents of Reynolds had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 205 people had theirs in Reynolds, wherever they lived.
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 3 to 1. 25% 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.
75% of Reynolds’ residents in work leave it to work; Winnipeg takes the most
Coming the other way, Whitemouth sends the most (40).
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 Reynolds work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Walking, cycling or transit: 0% of Reynolds’ commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 97% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Only 13% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% 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.
EI claims in Census Division No. 1 run 7% above their 2019 level
For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of Census Division No. 1, Reynolds included.
That is about 5.3 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. The highest month was January 2021: 1,310 people, 1.9 times the 2019 level.
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).
Reynolds earns D− for walkability
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Jobs near Reynolds: the places around it
Distances here run 32–49 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Reynolds.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Reynolds | 82% | 11% | $68K | 39.5 min | C− | D− |
| Whitemouth 31.7 km | 68% | 9.7% | $73K | 27.2 min | C− | C+ |
| Ste. Anne 37.9 km | 76% | 7.1% | $84K | 33.7 min | C | D− |
| Ste. Anne 42.1 km | 74% | 9.1% | $74K | 31.1 min | C− | B+ |
| La Broquerie 42.2 km | 74% | 5.8% | $84K | 30.5 min | C | D |
| Steinbach 48.6 km | 78% | 5.7% | $72K | 20.4 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 Reynolds, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around the town.
- In work. Why 15 to 64? Otherwise retirees would pull the rate down in older towns. The census can’t say how old a neighbourhood’s workers are, so the count of people in work takes every age.
- 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. 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.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
Questions about work in Reynolds
Where do people in Reynolds work?
Only 25% work in Reynolds itself; the rest go first to Winnipeg (95) and Beausejour (50).
How many jobs are there in Reynolds?
In June 2026, 40 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Reynolds?
Two figures answer it: 11% 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 Reynolds?
Before tax, half the households in Reynolds had more than $68,200 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Reynolds get to work?
Driving takes 97% of commuters to work, and on census day 13% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Reynolds?
About 39.5 minutes on average, with 15% under a quarter-hour and 18% at an hour or longer.
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).