Balmoral has lower household incomes than 70% of Canadian towns
Balmoral is the usual workplace of 300 people, and 455 of its own residents commute to a job. With 73% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, Balmoral matches the middle of Canadian towns. When the 2021 census was taken, 9.4% of people in Balmoral who wanted a job had none, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What stands out about work in Balmoral
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $68,500 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 22.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 3.9% 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 Balmoral: graded C
Better than 35% 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.
Balmoral households: $68,500 a year at the median
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Balmoral is 6% below it. No other place of 2,500 or more in the Restigouche census division has a higher median. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Shorter than the middle of Canadian towns: commutes from Balmoral average 22.3 minutes
In the middle of New Brunswick’s towns, the average commute is 20.8 minutes. Only 29% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. An hour or more: 3.9% of commuters, above the 2.7% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 20.2 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.
Each working day, more people leave Balmoral for work than come in
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out. The job is inside the municipality for 23% of its commuters.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
77% of Balmoral’s residents in work leave it to work; Campbellton takes the most
Eel River Crossing sends the largest group the other way, 80 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
How many in Balmoral were working in 2021
All 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Restigouche census division have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting retirees, 53% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. In October 2026, 48% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. Working or looking, 58% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
0% of commuters from Balmoral go without a car
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 95% of commuters. Home was the workplace for 11%, under the 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).
EI claims in the Restigouche census division are back near their 2019 level
That is about 11.4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 7%. The highest month was March 2021: 4,190 people, 1.6 times the 2019 level.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Data for EI beneficiaries covers the Restigouche census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Balmoral grades D− for walkability
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Balmoral
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balmoral | 73% | 9.4% | $69K | 22.3 min | C | D− |
| Eel River Crossing 3.5 km | 69% | 12% | $61K | 19.8 min | C | C− |
| Dalhousie 8.7 km | 75% | 5.6% | $72K | 17.7 min | B | D− |
| Charlo 8.8 km | 76% | 8.8% | $74K | 20.3 min | B | C |
| Dalhousie 11.2 km | 55% | 12% | $54K | 16.8 min | C− | A− |
| Campbellton 17.2 km | 62% | 13% | $49K | 12.8 min | C− | A |
| Pointe-à-la-Croix 18.4 km | 65% | 15% | $53K | 14.2 min | C− | D |
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 Balmoral, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- 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. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- 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.
- 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 Balmoral
How do people in Balmoral get to work?
Driving takes 95% of commuters to work, and on census day 11% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Balmoral?
About 22.3 minutes on average, with 29% under a quarter-hour and 3.9% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Balmoral work?
Only 23% work in Balmoral itself; the rest go first to Campbellton (150) and Dalhousie (95).
How many jobs are there in Balmoral?
Some 300 people worked in Balmoral at the 2021 census: 0.7 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 45 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Balmoral?
The census put unemployment at 9.4% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Campbellton-Miramichi economic region at 9.6%.
What is the average household income in Balmoral?
At $68,500 before tax in 2020, the median household in Balmoral compares with $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, 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).