Photo: Christopherdunlap · Public domainHouseholds in Perth-Andover earn less than in almost any other Canadian town
855 people have their usual place of work in Perth-Andover, against 420 residents who travel to a job. In Perth-Andover, 68% of residents aged 15 to 64 were working in May 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Perth-Andover had an unemployment rate of 10% at the 2021 census, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Perth-Andover and work: the main findings
Fewer people in work than most towns
With 68% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 45% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $48,900 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 855 jobs based in Perth-Andover and 420 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 16.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 3.7% 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.
Perth-Andover grades C− for jobs and income
Better than 23% 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 Perth-Andover were working in 2021
A smaller share in work than in 79% of Canadian towns.
Counting those looking for work too, 50% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 45%. In October 2026, 56% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. 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.
What households earned in Perth-Andover: $48,900 in 2020
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Perth-Andover is 33% below it. 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.
On a working day Perth-Andover gains 95% in workers
About 4 people arrive to work in Perth-Andover for each resident who goes out. The job is inside the municipality for 61% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
At 16.8 minutes, commutes from Perth-Andover are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 65%, more than the 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. 3.7% spend an hour or longer getting to work; the middle of New Brunswick’s towns has 2.7%. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 16.2 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.
600 people come into Perth-Andover to work, most from Perth and Andover
- Perth125
- Andover80
- Gordon75
- Denmark60
- Grand Falls / Grand-Sault50
- Aroostook40
- Tobique 2030
- Wicklow25
- Grand Falls25
- Kent20
- Tobique 2040
- Grand Falls / Grand-Sault25
- Andover20
- Saint-André15
- Fredericton10
- Woodstock10
- Hartland10
- Simonds10
- Florenceville-Bristol10
70% of the people who work in Perth-Andover live outside it, 125 of them in Perth, 6 km away. The main destination the other way is Tobique 20, with 40.
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, 1.8% of Perth-Andover’s commuters get to work
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 6.8% 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 Victoria census division are back near their 2019 level
Roughly 7.2 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. In February 2021 it reached 2,300, the most in the series and 2.1 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 Victoria 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).
On getting around on foot, Perth-Andover grades C+
Better than 43% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Perth-Andover
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Perth-Andover | 68% | 10% | $49K | 16.8 min | C− | C+ |
| Tobique 20 3.6 km | 52% | 21% | $53K | 14.2 min | C− | C |
| Perth 5.9 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 Perth-Andover, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Employment Insurance. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- 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. 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. 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. Counts of workers with a fixed workplace, by where they live and where they work, both taken as whole municipalities; the jobs figure takes everyone who works here, wherever home is.
- 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 Perth-Andover
Where do people in Perth-Andover work?
Most stay: 61% work in Perth-Andover. The rest go first to Tobique 20 (40) and Grand Falls / Grand-Sault (25).
How many jobs are there in Perth-Andover?
The 2021 census counted about 855 people working in Perth-Andover: 2 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 87 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Perth-Andover?
Two figures answer it: 10% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.1% for the Edmundston-Woodstock economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Perth-Andover?
Before tax, half the households in Perth-Andover had more than $48,900 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Perth-Andover get to work?
By car: 95% of commuters, 1.8% walk; on census day 6.8% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Perth-Andover?
16.8 minutes is the average trip, with 65% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 3.7% taking 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).