Photo: Timepages · CC0Household incomes put Minto near the very bottom of Canadian towns
Census day 2021 found 16% of Minto’s labour force without a job; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Workers in Minto spend 30.5 minutes on the way to work on average, and 9.2% need an hour or more. At the 2021 census, 64% of Minto’s 15-to-64s were in work, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
What Minto’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
With 64% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 42% of all adults employed. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 16% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 6.6% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $50,200 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 545 jobs based in Minto and 475 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 30.5 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 9.2% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Minto: D−
Better than 2% 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 many in Minto were working in 2021
A smaller share in work than in 88% of Canadian towns.
The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 60% in October 2026. 50% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 42%. 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.
$50,200 a year: the median household in Minto
That puts Minto 31% below the median of New Brunswick’s towns, $73,200. Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for 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).
Before tax, 2020: lower than in almost any Canadian town.
Every working day, Minto’s workforce grows by 12%
Of those who commute, 49% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
The length of the trip to work in Minto
Only 38% 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 28.2 minutes. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 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.
312 people come into Minto to work, most from Canning and Northfield
- Canning75
- Northfield55
- Sheffield50
- Chipman35
- Fredericton30
- Chipman20
- Maugerville15
- Saint Marys10
- Fredericton130
- Chipman80
- Oromocto10
57% of the people who work in Minto live outside it, 75 of them in Canning, 14 km away. Fredericton is where the largest group of commuters out goes, 130 of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
4.2% of commuters from Minto go without a car
Home was the workplace for 11%, 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: 94% 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 Queens census division, 4% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
At its peak, in March 2021, 1,010 people were on EI, 1.8 times the 2019 average. Roughly 7.4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 6%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: the Queens 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).
Walking in Minto earns B
Better than 56% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Minto, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minto | 64% | 16% | $50K | 30.5 min | D− | B |
| Canning 13.8 km | 71% | 12% | $70K | 34.4 min | D | C− |
| Chipman 18.3 km | 70% | 11% | $51K | 23.6 min | D | 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 Minto, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Minto
What is the average household income in Minto?
Minto’s middle household had $50,200 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Minto get to work?
By car: 94% of commuters, 4.2% walk; on census day 11% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Minto?
30.5 minutes is the average trip, with 38% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 9.2% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Minto work?
49% work in Minto itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Fredericton (130), then Chipman (80).
How many jobs are there in Minto?
The 2021 census counted about 545 people working in Minto: 1.2 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 65 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Minto?
At the 2021 census 16% 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-Oromocto economic region, gives 6.6% in 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).