Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMost of Beresford works elsewhere: the town has 0.6 jobs for each resident in work
Jobs were held by 69% of people aged 15 to 64 in Beresford in 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Workers in Beresford spend 18.8 minutes on the way to work on average, and 4.7% need an hour or more. Median household income in Beresford was $66,800 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
What stands out about work in Beresford
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $66,800 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 18.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.7% 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 Beresford earn C+
Better than 35% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #41 of 60 in New Brunswick.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, the share of 15-to-64s in work.
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.
Earnings at home in Beresford: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 or more in the Gloucester census division, 2 have a higher median. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Beresford is 9% below it. 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).
Time on the road to work from Beresford
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 16 minutes. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 49%, more than the 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’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.
On a working day, Beresford loses more workers than it gains
1,235 residents of Beresford had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 675 people had theirs in Beresford, wherever they lived.
It sends out some 2 workers for every one it takes in. The job is inside the municipality for 20% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
80% of Beresford’s residents in work leave it to work; Bathurst takes the most
- Beresford (New Brunswick part)205
- Bathurst110
- Nigadoo40
- Bathurst35
- Petit-Rocher25
- Pointe-Verte15
In the other direction the biggest source is Beresford (New Brunswick part), with 205.
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 Beresford work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
In and out of work in Beresford
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Gloucester census division, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 48% in October 2026. Working or looking, 53% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. Counting retirees, 47% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. 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.
Leaving the car at home: 1.7% of commuters in Beresford
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 96% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 15%, 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
EI claims in the Gloucester census division run 8% below their 2019 level
That works out to around 16.1 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 7%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 15,370 people, 1.6 times the 2019 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). Beresford doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Gloucester census division.
Beresford grades B− for walkability
Better than 46% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #23 of 60 in New Brunswick.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Ranked on jobs and income, Beresford is 466th among 719 Canadian towns of 3,100 to 5,900
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornwallis Manitoba | 4,705 | 85% | 2.1% | $99K | A+ |
| 2 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 4,455 | 81% | 6.5% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | Hay River Northwest Territories | 3,317 | 78% | 6.5% | $129K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 28 | Hanwell New Brunswick | 5,108 | 78% | 7.2% | $107K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 50 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 3,198 | 79% | 4.9% | $105K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 464 | Espanola Ontario | 5,504 | 67% | 9.4% | $77K | C+ |
| 465 | Kirkness Alberta | 5,279 | 69% | 11% | $89K | C+ |
| 466 | Beresford New Brunswick | 4,389 | 69% | 12% | $67K | C+ |
| 467 | Saint-Côme--Linière Quebec | 3,435 | 78% | 6.4% | $64K | C+ |
| 468 | Richmond Quebec | 3,419 | 78% | 4.8% | $52K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 719 | Saint-Alexis-des-Monts Quebec | 3,190 | 61% | 11% | $50K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Beresford, and others among New Brunswick’s towns.
Work in the places around Beresford
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beresford | 69% | 12% | $67K | 18.8 min | C+ | B− |
| Nigadoo 4.6 km | 63% | 14% | $69K | 20.1 min | C | C |
| Beresford 7.9 km | 67% | 12% | $70K | 21.7 min | C | D |
| Bathurst 8.7 km | 65% | 12% | $55K | 15.6 min | C− | B+ |
| Petit-Rocher 9.5 km | 66% | 11% | $59K | 21.5 min | C− | B |
| Bathurst 10.2 km | 71% | 11% | $73K | 18.8 min | B− | 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 Beresford, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- Trip times. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed 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. 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. 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. 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.
- 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 Beresford
Where do people in Beresford work?
20% work in Beresford itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Bathurst (680), then Petit-Rocher (65).
How many jobs are there in Beresford?
Statistics Canada counted 147 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Beresford?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 9.6% for the Campbellton-Miramichi economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Beresford?
The census puts Beresford at $66,800 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Beresford get to work?
By car: 96% of commuters, 1.7% walk; on census day 15% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Beresford?
18.8 minutes is the average trip, with 49% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 4.7% taking an hour or more.
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).