Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainLincoln has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.2 for each
Half the households in Lincoln had more than $86,400 in 2020, before tax, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Out of work in May 2021: 6.5% of Lincoln’s labour force, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%. Workers in Lincoln spend 21.3 minutes on the way to work on average, and 2.4% need an hour or more.
Work in Lincoln, in a few figures
Less unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 6.5% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 6.5% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 21.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.4% 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 Lincoln: graded B+
Better than 72% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #15 of 60 in New Brunswick.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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.
How many in Lincoln have a job: 75% of 15-to-64s
A smaller share in work than in 53% of Canadian towns.
In October 2026, 62% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 68% of residents that age. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
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.
The length of the trip to work in Lincoln
Timed exactly, the average is 18.2 minutes (Statistics Canada). Only 26% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More go out than come in: the working day in Lincoln
2,870 residents of Lincoln had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 690 people had theirs in Lincoln, wherever they lived.
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 6 to 1. The job is inside the municipality for 7.9% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
92% of Lincoln’s residents in work leave it to work; Fredericton takes the most
- Fredericton210
- Burton50
- Oromocto45
- Starlight Village40
- New Maryland25
- New Maryland20
- Blissville15
- Tracy15
- Fredericton Junction10
- Maugerville10
- Fredericton1,500
- Oromocto890
- Burton100
- Starlight Village70
- New Maryland30
- Gladstone20
- Fredericton Junction20
- Kingsclear10
Coming the other way, Fredericton sends the most (210).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
2021 Census, people with a usual place of work: where residents of Lincoln work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Household income in Lincoln
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 68% of Canadian towns.
Against the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($73,200), Lincoln’s median is 18% above. Pandemic benefits paid in 2020 lifted the incomes at the bottom, and they are counted here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Leaving the car at home: 1.3% of commuters in Lincoln
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 98% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 12%, under the 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
EI claims in the Sunbury census division run 14% above their 2019 level
The highest month was February 2021: 1,880 people, 2.1 times the 2019 level. That is about 5.4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Over the year to August 2026, the count 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). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Sunbury census division, Lincoln included.
On getting around on foot, Lincoln grades D
Better than 13% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #43 of 60 in New Brunswick.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Ranked on jobs and income, Lincoln is 178th among 678 Canadian towns of 5,700 to 10,900
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 79% | 5.5% | $146K | A+ |
| 2 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | North River Heights Manitoba | 7,228 | 82% | 8.4% | $143K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 28 | Oromocto New Brunswick | 9,451 | 77% | 4.6% | $91K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 169 | Saint Marys New Brunswick | 5,701 | 75% | 7% | $92K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 176 | L'Ange-Gardien Quebec | 7,068 | 79% | 5.8% | $119K | B+ |
| 177 | Beaverbrook Ontario | 6,762 | 73% | 11% | $107K | B+ |
| 178 | Lincoln New Brunswick | 8,093 | 75% | 6.5% | $86K | B+ |
| 179 | Beckwith Ontario | 10,073 | 79% | 6.4% | $126K | B+ |
| 180 | Baie-Saint-Paul Quebec | 7,760 | 79% | 5.2% | $65K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 253 | Douglas New Brunswick | 6,840 | 76% | 8.8% | $87K | B |
| … | ||||||
| 678 | Beasley Ontario | 6,338 | 49% | 17% | $47K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Lincoln, and others among New Brunswick’s towns.
Jobs near Lincoln: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lincoln | 75% | 6.5% | $86K | 21.3 min | B+ | D |
| New Maryland 8.6 km | 81% | 6.5% | $118K | 17.7 min | A+ | C− |
| Oromocto 8.7 km | 77% | 4.6% | $91K | 13.7 min | A+ | B− |
| New Maryland 8.7 km | 79% | 4.9% | $105K | 23.2 min | A | D |
| Burton 12.4 km | 69% | 7.3% | $89K | 21.7 min | B | D |
| Starlight Village 12.5 km | 78% | 7.2% | $107K | 20.1 min | A+ | C− |
| Maugerville 12.6 km | 81% | 7.1% | $87K | 23.2 min | A | 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 Lincoln, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Household income. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- 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.
- 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. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Monthly, and only for metro areas and economic regions. It is the up-to-date rate we set beside the census’s 2021 snapshot.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
Questions about work in Lincoln
How do people in Lincoln get to work?
98% of commuters go by car, 0.9% walk and 0.4% cycle. On census day 12% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Lincoln?
On average 21.3 minutes; 26% take under 15 minutes and 2.4% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Lincoln work?
7.9% work in Lincoln itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Fredericton (1,500), then Oromocto (890).
How many jobs are there in Lincoln?
About 690 people had their usual place of work in Lincoln at the 2021 census, 0.2 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 129 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Lincoln?
At the 2021 census 6.5% 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 metro area, gives 6.5% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Lincoln?
The median household in Lincoln had $86,400 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).