Photo: Andrew Filer from Seattle (ex-Minneapolis) · CC BY-SA 2.0Household incomes in Stuartburn are lower than in 91% of Canadian towns
Stuartburn had an unemployment rate of 8.3% at the 2021 census, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%. Most commutes from Stuartburn take well under an hour: the average is 34.5 minutes, and 17% take 60 minutes or longer. Of Stuartburn’s residents aged 15 to 64, 71% were employed when the 2021 census was taken; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%.
The work numbers behind Stuartburn
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $58,800 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 34.5 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 17% 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 Stuartburn earn D−
Better than 4% 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.
Stuartburn households: $58,800 a year at the median
Stuartburn’s median is 30% 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).
Commuting times in Stuartburn
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 34.7 minutes. The middle of Manitoba’s towns averages 23.6 minutes. Only 29% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 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.
Stuartburn empties a little on a working day
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out. The job is inside the municipality for 36% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
64% of Stuartburn’s residents in work leave it to work; Steinbach takes the most
Coming the other way, Emerson-Franklin sends the most (35).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Stuartburn at work: 71% of people aged 15 to 64
A smaller share in work than in 67% of Canadian towns.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 54% were working. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 66% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 58%. 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.
Walking, cycling or transit: 3.6% of Stuartburn’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 90% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 22%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 21%. 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).
7% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 1 than in 2019
Figures for EI beneficiaries are published for Census Division No. 1 as a whole, not for Stuartburn alone.
The highest month was January 2021: 1,310 people, 1.9 times the 2019 level. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 5.3 are on EI.
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).
Walking in Stuartburn earns C−
Better than 18% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Jobs and income in the places around Stuartburn
Distances here run 37–42 km: that is how far the nearest places with figures are from Stuartburn.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stuartburn | 71% | 8.3% | $59K | 34.5 min | D− | C− |
| La Broquerie 36.8 km | 74% | 5.8% | $84K | 30.5 min | C | D |
| De Salaberry 37.6 km | 70% | 6.5% | $86K | 31.6 min | C− | B− |
| Emerson-Franklin 38.8 km | 77% | 5.3% | $67K | 31.4 min | C− | B− |
| Steinbach 41.3 km | 78% | 5.7% | $72K | 20.4 min | B+ | A− |
| Mitchell 41.8 km | 75% | 5.1% | $88K | 25.7 min | B | 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 Stuartburn, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Counts of workers with a fixed workplace, by where they live and where they work, both taken as whole municipalities; the jobs figure takes everyone who works here, wherever home is.
- Employment Insurance. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- 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. The census-week jobless rate for residents 15 and over. Its base is the labour force, those employed plus those actively looking.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- 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. 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.
Questions about work in Stuartburn
What is the unemployment rate in Stuartburn?
Two figures answer it: 8.3% 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 Stuartburn?
The median household in Stuartburn had $58,800 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Stuartburn get to work?
By car: 90% of commuters, 3.6% walk; on census day 22% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Stuartburn?
34.5 minutes is the average trip, with 29% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 17% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Stuartburn work?
36% work in Stuartburn itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Steinbach (75), then Mitchell (60).
How many jobs are there in Stuartburn?
The 2021 census counted about 275 people working in Stuartburn: 0.7 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 57 businesses with employees in June 2026.
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).