Photo: James Cullin · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Twillingate trail those of 95% of Canadian towns
At the 2021 census, 49% of Twillingate’s 15-to-64s were in work; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Most commutes from Twillingate take well under an hour: the average is 16.7 minutes, and 6.7% take 60 minutes or longer. Joblessness at the 2021 census: 23% of Twillingate’s labour force, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
What Twillingate’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
In work at the 2021 census: 49% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 30% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 10% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 23%, 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 $55,900 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 395 jobs based in Twillingate and 300 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 16.7 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.7% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Twillingate: C−
Better than 17% 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 Twillingate were working in 2021
Of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 8, one has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
A more recent figure, for the wider area: 43% 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 40% of residents that age. Counting retirees, 30% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. 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.
What households earned in Twillingate: $55,900 in 2020
Of the 3 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 8, 2 have a higher median. Against the middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns ($63,700), Twillingate’s median is 12% below. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Every working day, Twillingate’s workforce grows by 28%
Each resident commuting out of Twillingate is matched by about 2 coming in. Of those who commute, 77% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
How long the commute from Twillingate takes
The middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns averages 19 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 75% of commuters, against 56% in the middle of Newfoundland and Labrador’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 17.1 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.
165 people come into Twillingate to work, most from Division No. 8, Subdivision H and Division No. 8, Subd. I
- Division No. 8, Subdivision H60
- Division No. 8, Subd. I20
- Crow Head15
- Gander10
- Cottlesville10
- Summerford10
- Cow Head10
- St. John's10
- Division No. 8, Subd. G10
- Comfort Cove-Newstead10
- Lewisporte10
42% of the people who work in Twillingate live outside it, 60 of them in Division No. 8, Subdivision H, 10 km away. Going the other way, St. John's is the biggest single destination (10).
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, 1.9% of Twillingate’s commuters get to work
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 7.1% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 91% 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 Census Division No. 8, 23% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
Twillingate shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of Census Division No. 8.
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 16.1 are on EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 16%. In February 2021 it reached 8,360, 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. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Twillingate on foot: a C grade
Better than 25% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Twillingate
The nearest places to Twillingate with figures are 10–41 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Twillingate | 49% | 23% | $56K | 16.7 min | C− | C |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision H 9.7 km | 40% | 39% | $49K | 30.2 min | D− | B− |
| Division No. 8, Subdivision L 40.8 km | 43% | 30% | $51K | 38 min | D− | C− |
| Fogo Island 41.1 km | 62% | 25% | $64K | 21.9 min | C− | 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 Twillingate, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- Trip times. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s average.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- Employment Insurance. A monthly count of Employment Insurance beneficiaries for the whole census division. It tracks the local job market, but it is not an unemployment rate.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
Questions about work in Twillingate
What is the average household income in Twillingate?
Twillingate’s middle household had $55,900 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Twillingate get to work?
91% of commuters drive, 1.9% walk; 7.1% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Twillingate?
The average commute is 16.7 minutes; 75% of trips take under 15 minutes and 6.7% an hour or more.
Where do people in Twillingate work?
Most stay: 77% work in Twillingate. The rest go first to St. John's (10) and Division No. 8, Subd. G (10).
How many jobs are there in Twillingate?
The 2021 census found about 395 people with their usual workplace in Twillingate, or 1.3 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 88 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Twillingate?
At the 2021 census 23% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the South Coast-Burin Peninsula and Notre Dame-Central-Bonavista Bay economic region, gives 10% in October 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).