Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainKent has 0.2 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Half the households in Kent had more than $64,700 in 2020, before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. In Kent, 70% of residents aged 15 to 64 were working in May 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Kent had an unemployment rate of 13% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What Kent’s work numbers say
Work near the middle
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 70% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 51%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $64,700 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
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, Kent grades C−
Better than 21% 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.
How Kent’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
That puts Kent 12% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns, $73,200. 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 daily tide in Kent runs outward
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 96 to 1.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
82% of Kent’s residents in work leave it to work; Florenceville-Bristol takes the most
No other place sends enough people to work in Kent to be counted.
- Florenceville-Bristol205
- Bath65
- Hartland55
- Woodstock40
- Aberdeen30
- Wakefield25
- Perth-Andover20
- Centreville15
- Wilmot10
- Peel10
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Kent has a job
A smaller share in work than in 71% of Canadian towns.
Working or looking, 58% 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 51%. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 56% 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.
0% of commuters from Kent go without a car
Home was the workplace for 12%, 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).
At 23.6 minutes, commutes from Kent are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
An hour or more: 4.5% of commuters, above the 2.7% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 23.1 minutes. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 39%, 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.
In the Carleton census division, 12% more people receive EI than in 2019
At its peak, in March 2021, 2,150 people were on EI, 2.2 times the 2019 average. That is about 6.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%.
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). Kent doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Carleton census division.
The Walkability grade for Kent: D−
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Kent, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kent | 70% | 13% | $65K | 23.6 min | C− | D− |
| Wicklow 8.6 km | 81% | 5.4% | $71K | 22.1 min | B+ | C |
| Florenceville-Bristol 11.7 km | 77% | 6.7% | $71K | 19.2 min | B+ | B |
| Peel 17.4 km | 64% | 8.3% | $67K | 21.9 min | C− | D |
| Perth 17.6 km | 76% | 4.3% | $61K | 24.4 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 Kent, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. The comparison pool is places of 2,500 people or more, towns or neighbourhoods inside cities, without whole cities or reserves, and we compare with its median.
Questions about work in Kent
What is the average household income in Kent?
The median household in Kent had $64,700 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Kent get to work?
Driving takes 97% of commuters to work, and on census day 12% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Kent?
About 23.6 minutes on average, with 39% under a quarter-hour and 4.5% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Kent work?
Only 18% work in Kent itself; the rest go first to Florenceville-Bristol (205) and Bath (65).
How many jobs are there in Kent?
In June 2026, 50 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Kent?
The 2021 census found 13% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Edmundston-Woodstock economic region, is 6.1% (October 2026).
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).