Photo: Haydn Blackey · CC BY-SA 2.0Pouch Cove has 0.1 jobs for every resident in work, so most leave town for work
Before tax, the typical household in Pouch Cove brought in $84,200 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. In Pouch Cove, 66% of residents aged 15 to 64 were working in May 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. An hour or more each way is the commute for 3.2% of workers in Pouch Cove; the average is 31.6 minutes.
Work in Pouch Cove: the figures worth knowing
Fewer people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 66% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 53%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 31.6 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 3.2% 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.
Jobs & income in Pouch Cove: graded D
Better than 15% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, trip times.
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.
Work and the working-age population of Pouch Cove
Of the 14 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 1, 6 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 53%: many residents are past working age. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 62% of the wider area’s adults in work. Working or looking, 58% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. The census caught the labour market on 11 May 2021, deep in the pandemic, so unemployment and working from home both ran above normal.
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.
The length of the trip to work in Pouch Cove
Timed exactly, the average is 28.6 minutes (Statistics Canada). In the middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, the average commute is 19 minutes. Only 9.6% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 56% in the middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
Pouch Cove empties a little on a working day
660 residents of Pouch Cove had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 85 people had theirs in Pouch Cove, wherever they lived.
It sends out some 19 workers for every one it takes in. Of those who commute, 8.1% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
92% of Pouch Cove’s residents in work leave it to work; St. John's takes the most
Inbound, the leader is St. John's (20).
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 Pouch Cove work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
How Pouch Cove’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 64% of Canadian towns.
Of the 14 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 1, 6 have a higher median. That puts Pouch Cove 32% above the median of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns, $63,700. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Walk, cycle or ride transit: the choice of 1.3% of Pouch Cove’s commuters
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 95% of commuters. Home was the workplace for 13%, under the 21% 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.
In Census Division No. 1, 4% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 7.3 are on EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 11%. February 2021 was the busiest month, with 31,470 people on EI, 2.2 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Not measured by town: EI beneficiaries (Census Division No. 1). 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 Pouch Cove: C
Better than 27% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Pouch Cove, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pouch Cove | 66% | 9.1% | $84K | 31.6 min | D | C |
| Flatrock 6.4 km | 75% | 9.4% | $117K | 28.1 min | B | D |
| Torbay 11.6 km | 73% | 9.7% | $108K | 21.3 min | A− | C |
| Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove 15 km | 78% | 9.5% | $130K | 18.6 min | A+ | C− |
| Portugal Cove-St. Philip's 18.3 km | 76% | 7.9% | $114K | 22.9 min | A | C |
| Wabana 19.2 km | 38% | 12% | $37K | 33.2 min | D− | B+ |
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 Pouch Cove, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- 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. Statistics Canada surveys households every month; the results come out for metro areas and economic regions, never for single towns, and keep the rate current after 2021.
- In work. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- Unemployment. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- 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.
- 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 Pouch Cove
What is the average household income in Pouch Cove?
At $84,200 before tax in 2020, the median household in Pouch Cove compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Pouch Cove get to work?
95% of commuters drive, 1.3% walk; 13% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Pouch Cove?
The average commute is 31.6 minutes; 9.6% of trips take under 15 minutes and 3.2% an hour or more.
Where do people in Pouch Cove work?
8.1% work in Pouch Cove itself. Of those who leave, the most go to St. John's (440), then Mount Pearl (70).
How many jobs are there in Pouch Cove?
The 2021 census found about 85 people with their usual workplace in Pouch Cove, or 0.1 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 44 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Pouch Cove?
The census put unemployment at 9.1% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the St. John's metro area at 6.5%.
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).