Photo: https://www.flickr.com/people/naturallight/ Leslie Philipp · CC BY 2.0Naujaat’s household incomes are higher than in 91% of Canadian towns
At the 2021 census, 37% of Naujaat’s 15-to-64s were in work, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work from Naujaat takes 8.4 minutes on average, an hour or more for 0%. Of everyone in Naujaat working or looking for work in May 2021, 29% were unemployed, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
Work in Naujaat, in a few figures
Fewer people in work than most towns
At the 2021 census 37% of the 15-to-64s were in work (73% in the middle of Canadian towns); across all ages 15 and over, 36%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The census counted 29% unemployed in 2021, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Unemployment ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $107,500 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
More jobs than the typical town
With 240 jobs based in Naujaat and 220 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 8.4 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 0% 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 Naujaat: graded A−
Better than 77% 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 Naujaat were working in 2021
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 51% of residents that age. These are census figures from May 2021, during COVID’s third wave; jobs have recovered since, which the Labour Force Survey shows.
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.
A smaller share in work than in almost any Canadian town.
Half the households in Naujaat had more than $107,500 in 2020
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).
Naujaat fills up on a working day: 9% more workers
For every resident who leaves Naujaat for work, about 2 people come in. 89% 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.
The length of the trip to work in Naujaat
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 5.4 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 94% of commuters, against 36% in the middle of Canadian 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.
44 people come into Naujaat to work, most from East Angus and Chesterfield Inlet
- East Angus10
- Chesterfield Inlet10
- Kugaaruk10
- Gjoa Haven10
18% of the people who work in Naujaat live outside it, 10 of them in East Angus, 2,495 km away. Outbound, Coral Harbour takes the most: 10 people.
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, 52% of Naujaat’s commuters get to work
23% drive to work, fewer than the 89% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
In the Kivalliq census division, 4% fewer people receive EI than in 2019
In the twelve months to August 2026 the number fell by 12%. The highest month was June 2021: 510 people, 2.1 times the 2019 level. Roughly 3.4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: the Kivalliq 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).
Naujaat earns A+ for walkability
Better than 96% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for Naujaat, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- 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. 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. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
Questions about work in Naujaat
Where do people in Naujaat work?
89% work in Naujaat itself; of those who leave, the most go to Coral Harbour (10), then Kugaaruk (10).
How many jobs are there in Naujaat?
The 2021 census counted about 240 people working in Naujaat: 1.1 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace.
What is the unemployment rate in Naujaat?
29% of the labour force was unemployed on census day in May 2021, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Naujaat?
The census puts Naujaat at $107,500 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Naujaat get to work?
By car: 23% of commuters, 52% walk; on census day 0% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Naujaat?
8.4 minutes is the average trip, with 94% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 0% taking an hour or more.
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) · 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).