Photo: Not specified · Public domainPeel has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.3 for each
Median household income in Peel was $66,900 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. 64% of people aged 15 to 64 in Peel had a job at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. Most commutes from Peel take well under an hour: the average is 21.9 minutes, and 5.7% take 60 minutes or longer.
What Peel’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 64% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 53%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $66,900 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 21.9 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 5.7% 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.
Peel grades C− for jobs and income
Better than 20% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Peel: 64%
A smaller share in work than in 88% of Canadian towns.
Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 57% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 56% in October 2026. The figures are a snapshot of 11 May 2021, when pandemic rules still kept many people out of work or at home.
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.
Earnings at home in Peel: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Peel’s median is 9% below the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($73,200). In 2020 emergency benefits topped up many low incomes, and the census counts them here.
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 Peel
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 20.1 minutes. In the middle of New Brunswick’s towns, the average commute is 20.8 minutes. Only 37% 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.
A commuter town: Peel sends out more workers than it takes in
It sends out some 8 workers for every one it takes in. Of those who commute, 14% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
86% of Peel’s residents in work leave it to work; Florenceville-Bristol takes the most
Brighton sends the largest group the other way, 10 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Without a car, 2.3% of Peel’s commuters get to work
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 97% of commuters. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 12% against 21%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
EI claims in the Carleton census division run 12% above their 2019 level
That is about 6.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. In the twelve months to August 2026 the number rose by 3%. In March 2021 it reached 2,150, the most in the series and 2.2 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Carleton 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).
How walkable Peel is: D
Better than 9% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Peel, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Peel | 64% | 8.3% | $67K | 21.9 min | C− | D |
| Florenceville-Bristol 8.8 km | 77% | 6.7% | $71K | 19.2 min | B+ | B |
| Brighton 11 km | 74% | 9.8% | $62K | 24.9 min | C− | D |
| Hartland 11.5 km | 78% | 3.4% | $68K | 21.4 min | B | B− |
| Wilmot 13.8 km | 72% | 16% | $67K | 21.8 min | C | D |
| Wicklow 14.8 km | 81% | 5.4% | $71K | 22.1 min | B+ | C |
| Wakefield 17 km | 81% | 7.3% | $71K | 18.8 min | A− | 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 Peel, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed average.
- Where people commute. Who travels where, from the census: workers with a regular workplace, sorted by the municipality they live in and the one they work in.
- 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. 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. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- 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.
- 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 Peel
Where do people in Peel work?
14% work in Peel itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Florenceville-Bristol (85), then Hartland (70).
How many jobs are there in Peel?
In June 2026, 31 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Peel?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Edmundston-Woodstock economic region at 6.1%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 8.3%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Peel?
Peel’s middle household had $66,900 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Peel get to work?
Driving takes 97% of commuters to work, 2.3% walk, and on census day 12% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Peel?
About 21.9 minutes on average, with 37% under a quarter-hour and 5.7% at an hour or longer.
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).