Photo: Erj1211 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for each resident in work, most of Eel River Crossing commutes out
Before tax, the typical household in Eel River Crossing brought in $61,200 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. Getting to work from Eel River Crossing takes 19.8 minutes on average, an hour or more for 4.1%. At the 2021 census, 69% of Eel River Crossing’s 15-to-64s were in work, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns.
The short version on work in Eel River Crossing
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $61,200 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 19.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.1% 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 & income in Eel River Crossing: graded C
Better than 26% 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.
Earnings at home in Eel River Crossing: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 86% of Canadian towns.
Against the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($73,200), Eel River Crossing’s median is 16% below. One of the 3 other places of 2,500+ 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).
The length of the trip to work in Eel River Crossing
Trips under 15 minutes: 43%, fewer than the 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19.1 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 workers leave Eel River Crossing each day than arrive
It sends out some 6 workers for every one it takes in. The job is inside the municipality for 11% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
89% of Eel River Crossing’s residents in work leave it to work; Campbellton takes the most
- Campbellton180
- Dalhousie140
- Balmoral80
- Atholville50
- Charlo15
- Devon 3010
- Balmoral10
- Belledune10
- Pointe-à-la-Croix10
Coming the other way, Dalhousie sends the most (20).
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 Eel River Crossing
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.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 48% in work in October 2026. Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 57%. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 50% of residents 15 and over were in work. The census was taken on 11 May 2021, mid-pandemic, when lockdowns had pushed unemployment up and sent many to work from home.
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, 1.4% of Eel River Crossing’s commuters get to work
Home was the workplace for 10%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 97% 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).
In the Restigouche census division, the count on EI is close to where it was in 2019
Roughly 11.4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 7%. March 2021 was the busiest month, with 4,190 people on EI, 1.6 times 2019’s 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). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Restigouche census division, Eel River Crossing included.
The Walkability grade for Eel River Crossing: C−
Better than 16% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How the places next to Eel River Crossing compare on work
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eel River Crossing | 69% | 12% | $61K | 19.8 min | C | C− |
| Balmoral 3.5 km | 73% | 9.4% | $69K | 22.3 min | C | D− |
| Dalhousie 7.2 km | 75% | 5.6% | $72K | 17.7 min | B | D− |
| Charlo 7.3 km | 76% | 8.8% | $74K | 20.3 min | B | C |
| Dalhousie 7.7 km | 55% | 12% | $54K | 16.8 min | C− | A− |
| Nouvelle 17.4 km | 74% | 10% | $65K | 19.9 min | C+ | C |
| Campbellton 18.3 km | 62% | 13% | $49K | 12.8 min | C− | A |
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 Eel River Crossing, 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. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- Employment Insurance. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- 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.
- 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 Eel River Crossing
How do people in Eel River Crossing get to work?
Driving takes 97% of commuters to work, 1.4% walk, and on census day 10% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Eel River Crossing?
About 19.8 minutes on average, with 43% under a quarter-hour and 4.1% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Eel River Crossing work?
11% work in Eel River Crossing itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Campbellton (180), then Dalhousie (140).
How many jobs are there in Eel River Crossing?
Statistics Canada counted 41 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Eel River Crossing?
The 2021 census found 12% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Campbellton-Miramichi economic region, is 9.6% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Eel River Crossing?
Before tax, half the households in Eel River Crossing had more than $61,200 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
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).