Photo: Quintin Soloviev · CC BY 4.0There are 1.8 jobs in Rexton for every resident in work
The median household in Rexton had $65,000 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. In May 2021, unemployment in Rexton reached 17%, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%. Most commutes from Rexton take well under an hour: the average is 21.2 minutes, and 9.1% take 60 minutes or longer.
The short version on work in Rexton
More people in work than most towns
Counting everyone 15 and over, 51% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 82%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 7.1% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 17%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $65,000 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
A local job centre
525 people work in Rexton and 295 residents commute to a fixed workplace; the middle of Canadian towns has 0.8 jobs per working resident. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 21.2 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 9.1% take an hour or more. 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.
Rexton grades B+ for jobs and income
Better than 66% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Rexton: 82%
All 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Kent census division have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 51% were working. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 59% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 61% of residents that age. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
Household income in Rexton
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Rexton is 11% below it. Of the 4 other places of 2,500 or more in the Kent census division, 3 have a higher median. 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).
Workers pour into Rexton: 69% more on a working day
295 residents of Rexton had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 525 people had theirs in Rexton, wherever they lived.
Rexton takes in some 2 workers for every resident it sends out. The job is inside the municipality for 30% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
Commuting times in Rexton
Trips under 15 minutes: 57%, more than the 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 18.9 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
438 people come into Rexton to work, most from Richibucto and Weldford
- Richibucto110
- Weldford95
- Saint-Charles55
- Richibucto45
- Carleton20
- Miramichi20
- Dundas15
- Wellington10
- Bouctouche10
- Richibucto 1510
- Richibucto120
- Richibucto 1525
- Weldford15
- Bouctouche10
- Richibucto10
- Carleton10
Of everyone working in Rexton, 83% come in from elsewhere; 110 make the 7 km trip from Richibucto. Outbound, Richibucto takes the most: 120 people.
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 Rexton work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 3.9% of Rexton’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Only 9.4% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% 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 Kent census division run 7% below their 2019 level
Roughly 10.4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. In February 2021 it reached 5,570, the most in the series and 1.6 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Data for EI beneficiaries covers the Kent 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).
Getting around Rexton on foot earns B
Better than 62% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Rexton
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rexton | 82% | 17% | $65K | 21.2 min | B+ | B |
| Richibucto 4.4 km | 62% | 13% | $47K | 18.1 min | C− | A− |
| Richibucto 7.4 km | 73% | 11% | $68K | 22.5 min | C | D |
| Saint-Charles 8.3 km | 68% | 18% | $68K | 22.7 min | C− | D |
| Richibucto 15 10.9 km | 34% | 22% | $55K | 20 min | D | C+ |
| Saint-Louis de Kent 11.9 km | 64% | 15% | $50K | 19.9 min | D | A− |
| Saint-Louis 14.4 km | 72% | 17% | $71K | 25.8 min | C− | 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 Rexton, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. 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.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
Questions about work in Rexton
What is the unemployment rate in Rexton?
The 2021 census found 17% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Moncton-Richibucto economic region, is 7.1% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Rexton?
Before tax, half the households in Rexton had more than $65,000 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Rexton get to work?
94% of commuters go by car, 3.9% walk. On census day 9.4% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Rexton?
On average 21.2 minutes; 57% take under 15 minutes and 9.1% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Rexton work?
Only 30% work in Rexton itself; the rest go first to Richibucto (120) and Richibucto 15 (25).
How many jobs are there in Rexton?
About 525 people had their usual place of work in Rexton at the 2021 census, 1.8 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 50 businesses with employees in June 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).