Photo: Dr Wilson · CC BY-SA 3.0Making a living in Charlo
8.8% of the labour force in Charlo was out of work at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Jobs located in Charlo: 260, for 425 residents with a usual workplace. Most commutes from Charlo take well under an hour: the average is 20.3 minutes, and 2.8% take 60 minutes or longer.
The work numbers behind Charlo
Work near the middle
The 2021 census found 76% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 47%. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 20.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.8% 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 Charlo earn B
Better than 60% 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.
Commuting times in Charlo
Only 39% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 18.7 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.
More go out than come in: the working day in Charlo
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out. 23% 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.
77% of Charlo’s residents in work leave it to work; Campbellton takes the most
- Dalhousie50
- Campbellton35
- Balmoral20
- Eel River Crossing15
- Durham10
- Atholville10
- Allardville10
- Bathurst10
In the other direction the biggest source is Dalhousie, with 50.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In Charlo, 76% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
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.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 47% of residents 15 and over were in work. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 48% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. 51% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. 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.
What households earned in Charlo: $73,500 in 2020
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 58% of Canadian towns.
No other place of 2,500 or more in the Restigouche census division has a higher median. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
4.7% of commuters from Charlo go without a car
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 7% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 93% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
About as many people are on EI in the Restigouche census division as in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 7%. The highest month was March 2021: 4,190 people, 1.6 times the 2019 level. That works out to around 11.4 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Not measured by town: EI beneficiaries (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).
Walkability in Charlo: graded C
Better than 26% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Charlo
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Charlo | 76% | 8.8% | $74K | 20.3 min | B | C |
| Eel River Crossing 7.3 km | 69% | 12% | $61K | 19.8 min | C | C− |
| Dalhousie 8.2 km | 55% | 12% | $54K | 16.8 min | C− | A− |
| Balmoral 8.8 km | 73% | 9.4% | $69K | 22.3 min | C | D− |
| Dalhousie 14.1 km | 75% | 5.6% | $72K | 17.7 min | B | D− |
| Nouvelle 16.4 km | 74% | 10% | $65K | 19.9 min | C+ | 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 Charlo, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t 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.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
Questions about work in Charlo
How many jobs are there in Charlo?
Some 260 people worked in Charlo at the 2021 census: 0.6 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 38 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Charlo?
Two figures answer it: 8.8% 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 Charlo?
The median household in Charlo had $73,500 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Charlo get to work?
Driving takes 93% of commuters to work, 4.7% walk, and on census day 7% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Charlo?
About 20.3 minutes on average, with 39% under a quarter-hour and 2.8% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Charlo work?
23% work in Charlo itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Campbellton (125), then Dalhousie (90).
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).