Most of Saint-Charles works elsewhere: the town has 0.1 jobs for each resident in work
The 2021 census found 68% of working-age people in Saint-Charles employed, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Saint-Charles had an unemployment rate of 18% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. In 2020, a household at the middle of Saint-Charles had $67,500 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
What the numbers say about work in Saint-Charles
Fewer people in work than most towns
Counting everyone 15 and over, 47% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 68%, 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 18%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
At $67,500 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 22.7 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Saint-Charles: C−
Better than 23% 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.
How many in Saint-Charles were working in 2021
None of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Kent census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 57% of residents that age. Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 47% were working. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 59% of the wider area’s adults in work. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
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 Saint-Charles
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 72% of Canadian towns.
3 of the 4 other places of 2,500+ in the Kent census division have a higher median. The middle of New Brunswick’s towns is $73,200, and Saint-Charles is 8% below it. 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).
A shorter commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 22.7 minutes from Saint-Charles
The middle of New Brunswick’s towns averages 20.8 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 48% of commuters, against 44% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. An hour or more: 9.1% of commuters, above the 2.7% in the middle of New Brunswick’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 20.8 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 Saint-Charles each day than arrive
Each person commuting in is matched by about 27 residents going out. 6.8% 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.
93% of Saint-Charles’ residents in work leave it to work; Richibucto takes the most
Of those coming in, Beaubassin East / Beaubassin-est supplies the most: 10.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 1.3% of Saint-Charles’ commuters
Home was the workplace for 8.3%, 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: 99% 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 Kent census division, 7% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 10.4 are on EI. February 2021 was the busiest month, with 5,570 people on EI, 1.6 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: 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).
Walkability in Saint-Charles: graded D
Better than 6% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Saint-Charles, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Charles | 68% | 18% | $68K | 22.7 min | C− | D |
| Saint-Louis de Kent 3.9 km | 64% | 15% | $50K | 19.9 min | D | A− |
| Saint-Louis 6.2 km | 72% | 17% | $71K | 25.8 min | C− | D− |
| Richibucto 6.5 km | 62% | 13% | $47K | 18.1 min | C− | A− |
| Rexton 8.3 km | 82% | 17% | $65K | 21.2 min | B+ | B |
| Richibucto 15 12.6 km | 34% | 22% | $55K | 20 min | D | C+ |
| Richibucto 15.4 km | 73% | 11% | $68K | 22.5 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 Saint-Charles, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Of everyone 15 or older who was working or job-hunting in the census week, the part still looking. Someone not seeking work isn’t in it at all.
- Household income. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- Trip times. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- 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.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
Questions about work in Saint-Charles
Where do people in Saint-Charles work?
Only 6.8% work in Saint-Charles itself; the rest go first to Richibucto (260) and Rexton (55).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Charles?
About 65 people had their usual place of work in Saint-Charles at the 2021 census, 0.1 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 78 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Charles?
Two figures answer it: 18% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 7.1% for the Moncton-Richibucto economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Saint-Charles?
The census puts Saint-Charles at $67,500 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Saint-Charles get to work?
99% of commuters go by car, 1.3% walk. On census day 8.3% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Saint-Charles?
On average 22.7 minutes; 48% take under 15 minutes and 9.1% take 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).