Photo: Gorob · CC BY-SA 3.0Canning has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.1 for each
Before tax, the typical household in Canning brought in $70,000 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. The 2021 census found 71% of working-age people in Canning employed, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Workers in Canning spend 34.4 minutes on the way to work on average, and 6.9% need an hour or more.
The work figures that set Canning apart
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $70,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 34.4 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 6.9% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Canning: D
Better than 8% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Earnings at home in Canning: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 66% of Canadian towns.
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Canning is 4% below it. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up 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 Canning takes
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 31.6 minutes. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 26%, fewer 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.
On a working day, Canning loses more workers than it gains
It sends out some 50 workers for every one it takes in. The job is inside the municipality for 9.6% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
90% of Canning’s residents in work leave it to work; Fredericton takes the most
No other place sends enough people to work in Canning to be counted.
- Fredericton90
- Minto75
- Oromocto30
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Work and the working-age population of Canning
A smaller share in work than in 69% of Canadian towns.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 60% in work in October 2026. Working or looking, 52% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 46%. 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.
Without a car, 4.2% of Canning’s commuters get to work
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Only 12% worked at home on census day, against 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).
4% fewer people are on EI in the Queens census division than in 2019
At its peak, in March 2021, 1,010 people were on EI, 1.8 times the 2019 average. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 7.4 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 6%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Queens census division, not by town. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Getting around Canning on foot earns C−
Better than 23% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Canning, compared
No closer places have figures: these lie 14–36 km from Canning.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Canning | 71% | 12% | $70K | 34.4 min | D | C− |
| Minto 13.8 km | 64% | 16% | $50K | 30.5 min | D− | B |
| Chipman 28.3 km | 70% | 11% | $51K | 23.6 min | D | B− |
| Maugerville 33.8 km | 81% | 7.1% | $87K | 23.2 min | A | D |
| Oromocto 35.5 km | 77% | 4.6% | $91K | 13.7 min | A+ | B− |
| Springfield 35.7 km | 76% | 11% | $71K | 36.3 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 Canning, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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.
- Which towns we compare. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
Questions about work in Canning
Where do people in Canning work?
Only 9.6% work in Canning itself; the rest go first to Fredericton (90) and Minto (75).
How many jobs are there in Canning?
In June 2026, 21 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Canning?
At the 2021 census 12% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Fredericton-Oromocto economic region, gives 6.6% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Canning?
Canning’s middle household had $70,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Canning get to work?
By car: 94% of commuters, 4.2% walk; on census day 12% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Canning?
34.4 minutes is the average trip, with 26% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 6.9% 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).