Photo: SimonP at en.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Working-age people in Arnprior are less likely to have a job than in 64% of Canadian towns
9.4% of the labour force in Arnprior was out of work at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. An hour or more each way is the commute for 8% of workers in Arnprior; the average is 28.8 minutes. The median household in Arnprior had $75,700 before tax in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
What stands out about work in Arnprior
Work near the middle
Counting everyone 15 and over, 50% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 72%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
A local job centre
With 3,090 jobs based in Arnprior and 2,460 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
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 Arnprior: graded C−
Better than 22% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #630 of 866 in Ontario.
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.
Each working day, Arnprior’s workforce swells by 19%
Each resident commuting out of Arnprior is matched by about 2 coming in. Of those who commute, 50% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
1,867 people come into Arnprior to work, most from McNab/Braeside and Ottawa
60% of the people who work in Arnprior live outside it, 785 of them in McNab/Braeside, 7 km away. Of residents who leave for work, most head to Ottawa (915).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In Arnprior, 72% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Renfrew census division, 10 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 50% were working. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 61% in October 2026. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 55% of residents that age. 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.
What households in Arnprior earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 53% of Canadian towns.
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 or more in the Renfrew census division, 10 have a higher median. Set beside Ontario’s towns, where the median is $91,600, Arnprior sits 17% below. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
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 10% of Arnprior’s commuters
Few ride transit: 0.3%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. On foot: 9% of commuters, well above the 3.2% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. By car, truck or van: 88% of commuters, much as in the middle of Ontario’s towns. 21% worked at home on census day, about the same as 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).
Commuting times in Arnprior
Timed exactly, the average is 25.6 minutes (Statistics Canada). A quarter-hour or less for 39% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Ontario’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.
13% more people are on EI in the Renfrew census division than in 2019
That is about 4.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 1%. The count topped out in April 2021 at 5,690 people, 2.4 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). Arnprior doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Renfrew census division.
Getting around Arnprior on foot earns A
Better than 91% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #374 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Out of 658 Canadian towns of 8,000 to 15,500, Arnprior comes 549th on jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| 2 | North Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 85% | 5.9% | $121K | A+ |
| 3 | Sillery Quebec | 13,950 | 81% | 6.2% | $120K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Glebe-Dows Lake Ontario | 13,436 | 80% | 9.4% | $113K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Wellesley Ontario | 12,413 | 84% | 3.9% | $119K | A+ |
| 11 | Perth East Ontario | 13,423 | 86% | 3.9% | $96K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 547 | Dupéré Quebec | 15,036 | 74% | 8.7% | $80K | C− |
| 548 | Semiahmoo Town Centre British Columbia | 13,381 | 71% | 8.2% | $79K | C− |
| 549 | Arnprior Ontario | 11,459 | 72% | 9.4% | $76K | C− |
| 550 | Tay Ontario | 11,968 | 69% | 11% | $82K | C− |
| 551 | South Bruce Peninsula Ontario | 9,799 | 73% | 9.3% | $72K | C− |
| … | ||||||
| 658 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Arnprior, and others among Ontario’s towns.
The places around Arnprior, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arnprior | 72% | 9.4% | $76K | 28.8 min | C− | A |
| McNab/Braeside 7.5 km | 77% | 9.5% | $99K | 32 min | B− | C− |
| Bristol 10.3 km | 68% | 6.9% | $67K | 45.8 min | D− | C+ |
| Kinburn 14.2 km | 84% | 6.4% | $125K | 29.1 min | A | C |
| Fitzroy 17.7 km | 77% | 9.8% | $113K | 38.8 min | B− | C− |
| Horton 18.7 km | 75% | 8% | $91K | 25.8 min | B | 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 Arnprior, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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.
- 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.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- 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 Arnprior
How many jobs are there in Arnprior?
About 3,090 people had their usual place of work in Arnprior at the 2021 census, 1.3 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 340 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Arnprior?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 9.4% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario part metro area at 7.3% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Arnprior?
The median household in Arnprior had $75,700 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Arnprior get to work?
88% of commuters go by car, 0.3% take public transit, 9% walk and 1.1% cycle. On census day 21% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Arnprior?
On average 28.8 minutes; 39% take under 15 minutes and 8% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Arnprior work?
50% work in Arnprior itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Ottawa (915), then Renfrew (110).
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).