Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Léonard’s household incomes are lower than in 84% of Canadian towns
Getting to work from Saint-Léonard takes 20.7 minutes on average, an hour or more for 4.8%. Saint-Léonard counted 70% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. The 2021 census put unemployment in Saint-Léonard at 11%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Jobs and income in Saint-Léonard: what the figures say
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $62,500 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 20.7 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 4.8% 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.
Jobs and income in Saint-Léonard earn C
Better than 27% 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.
What households earned in Saint-Léonard: $62,500 in 2020
Against the middle of New Brunswick’s towns ($73,200), Saint-Léonard’s median is 15% below. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Commuting times in Saint-Léonard
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 17 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 48%, more than the 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.
On a working day, Saint-Léonard loses more workers than it gains
The job is inside the municipality for 32% of its commuters.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
68% of Saint-Léonard’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Léonard takes the most
- Saint-Léonard55
- Grand Falls / Grand-Sault35
- Edmundston20
- Drummond15
- Sainte-Anne15
- Saint-André10
- Sainte-Anne-de-Madawaska10
- Rivière-Verte10
- Saint-Léonard100
- Grand Falls / Grand-Sault95
- Saint-André30
- Edmundston30
Inbound, the leader is Saint-Léonard (55).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In and out of work in Saint-Léonard
A smaller share in work than in 71% of Canadian towns.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 59% of residents that age. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 53% of residents 15 and over were in work. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 56% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. 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.
Without a car, 5.7% of Saint-Léonard’s commuters get to work
Home was the workplace for 4.5%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 91% of commuters.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
In the Madawaska census division, 4% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 6.9 receive EI. In February 2021 it reached 3,590, 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: the Madawaska 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).
Everyday places on foot in Saint-Léonard: C
Better than 33% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Saint-Léonard
The nearest places to Saint-Léonard with figures are 14–29 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Léonard | 70% | 11% | $63K | 20.7 min | C | C |
| Saint-André 14.3 km | 70% | 9.6% | $69K | 17.5 min | C+ | C− |
| Grand Falls / Grand-Sault 19.3 km | 70% | 9.8% | $59K | 15.2 min | C | A− |
| Drummond 24.9 km | 78% | 12% | $77K | 17.1 min | A− | D− |
| Grand Falls 28.9 km | 70% | 3.9% | $75K | 20.9 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-Léonard, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment 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. 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.
- 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 Saint-Léonard
How long is the commute from Saint-Léonard?
About 20.7 minutes on average, with 48% under a quarter-hour and 4.8% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Saint-Léonard work?
Only 32% work in Saint-Léonard itself; the rest go first to Saint-Léonard (100) and Grand Falls / Grand-Sault (95).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Léonard?
Some 300 people worked in Saint-Léonard at the 2021 census: 0.8 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 34 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Léonard?
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 11%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Saint-Léonard?
Before tax, half the households in Saint-Léonard had more than $62,500 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Saint-Léonard get to work?
Driving takes 91% of commuters to work, 5.7% walk, and on census day 4.5% of those in work were at home.
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).