Photo: Verne Equinox · CC BY 3.0Norton has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.4 for each
Getting to work from Norton takes 29.4 minutes on average, an hour or more for 6.3%. Before tax, the typical household in Norton brought in $70,800 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Of Norton’s residents aged 15 to 64, 76% were employed when the 2021 census was taken, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns.
The short version on work in Norton
Lower incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $70,800 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 29.4 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.3% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Norton: C−
Better than 23% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; its weakest, trip times.
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.
Household income in Norton
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 64% of Canadian towns.
8 of the 9 other places of 2,500+ in the Kings census division have a higher median. Against the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($73,200), Norton’s median is 3% below. 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 Norton
In the middle of New Brunswick’s towns, the average commute is 20.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 20%, fewer than the 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 25.9 minutes (Statistics Canada).
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 Norton each day than arrive
About 3 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. 10% 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.
90% of Norton’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint John takes the most
- Saint John135
- Sussex100
- Studholm40
- Sussex35
- Hampton30
- Springfield15
- Hampton10
- Cardwell10
- Rothesay10
- Quispamsis10
Of those coming in, Springfield supplies the most: 50.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In Norton, 76% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Kings census division, 5 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
65% 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 59%. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 59% in October 2026. The census caught the labour market on 11 May 2021, deep in the pandemic, so unemployment and working from home both ran above normal.
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.
Leaving the car at home: 0% of commuters in Norton
The car is the way to work for 99% of commuters. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 17% against 21%. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
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
February 2021 was the busiest month, with 4,910 people on EI, 2.4 times 2019’s average. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 5 are on EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: the Kings 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).
On getting around on foot, Norton grades C−
Better than 16% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to Norton
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Norton | 76% | 9.5% | $71K | 29.4 min | C− | C− |
| Springfield 10.4 km | 76% | 11% | $71K | 36.3 min | C− | D− |
| Norton 11.8 km | 71% | 9.5% | $78K | 30.2 min | C− | D |
| Sussex 15.7 km | 74% | 11% | $73K | 25.8 min | C | C− |
| Upham 16.9 km | 67% | 11% | $72K | 37 min | D | D− |
| Sussex 17.2 km | 68% | 11% | $55K | 18.3 min | C− | A |
| Hampton 17.5 km | 76% | 9.6% | $86K | 26.9 min | B− | 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 Norton, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- 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. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- Unemployment. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Household income. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- 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 Norton
Where do people in Norton work?
10% work in Norton itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saint John (135), then Sussex (100).
How many jobs are there in Norton?
The 2021 census found about 185 people with their usual workplace in Norton, or 0.4 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 42 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Norton?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Saint John-St. Stephen economic region at 6%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 9.5%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Norton?
At $70,800 before tax in 2020, the median household in Norton compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Norton get to work?
99% of commuters drive; 17% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Norton?
The average commute is 29.4 minutes; 20% of trips take under 15 minutes and 6.3% an hour or more.
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).