Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit, NASA Johnson Space Center · Public domainHavelock has 0.4 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Before tax, the typical household in Havelock brought in $65,800 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. At the 2021 census, 66% of Havelock’s 15-to-64s were in work, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. From Havelock, the drive or ride to work averages 30.3 minutes, with 8.3% going an hour or longer.
What stands out about work in Havelock
Fewer people in work than most towns
The 2021 census found 66% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 53%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $65,800 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 30.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 8.3% 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.
On jobs and income, Havelock grades D
Better than 5% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Who in Havelock has a job
None of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Kings census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 60% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 53%: many residents are past working age. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 59% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. 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 in Havelock earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 76% of Canadian towns.
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 or more in the Kings census division, 8 have a higher median. That puts Havelock 10% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns, $73,200. These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes 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 Havelock
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. Only 28% 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 26.6 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.
Havelock is quieter on a working day than at night
About 8 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. 27% 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.
73% of Havelock’s residents in work leave it to work; Moncton takes the most
Of those coming in, Salisbury supplies the most: 25.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 5.6% of Havelock’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 93% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Only 19% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% 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).
3% more people are on EI in the Kings census division than in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. At its peak, in February 2021, 4,910 people were on EI, 2.4 times the 2019 average. That is about 5 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Kings 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 Havelock on foot earns C
Better than 32% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to Havelock
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Havelock | 66% | 10% | $66K | 30.3 min | D | C |
| Salisbury 15.3 km | 71% | 8.5% | $71K | 25.5 min | C− | D |
| Petitcodiac 17 km | 74% | 11% | $68K | 27.2 min | C− | B+ |
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 Havelock, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around the town.
- 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 census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- 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 Havelock
How many jobs are there in Havelock?
Statistics Canada counted 31 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Havelock?
The 2021 census found 10% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Saint John-St. Stephen economic region, is 6% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Havelock?
Havelock’s middle household had $65,800 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Havelock get to work?
Driving takes 93% of commuters to work, 5.6% walk, and on census day 19% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Havelock?
About 30.3 minutes on average, with 28% under a quarter-hour and 8.3% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Havelock work?
27% work in Havelock itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Moncton (65), then Petitcodiac (55).
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).