Photo: Hans-Jürgen Hübner · CC BY 3.0Assiginack has lower household incomes than 61% of Canadian towns
At the 2021 census, 75% of Assiginack’s 15-to-64s were in work, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Of everyone in Assiginack working or looking for work in May 2021, 5.3% were unemployed; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. The census counted 235 people working in Assiginack and 265 residents commuting to a fixed workplace.
What stands out about work in Assiginack
Less unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 5.3% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 6% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $72,100 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Assiginack earns C for jobs and income
Better than 31% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
Who in Assiginack has a job
A smaller share in work than in 52% of Canadian towns.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 52% 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. Counting those looking for work too, 55% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
Household income in Assiginack: $72,100 at the median
The middle of Ontario’s towns is $91,600, and Assiginack is 21% below it. In 2020 emergency benefits topped up many low incomes, and the census counts them here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
The daily tide in Assiginack runs outward
41% 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.
59% of Assiginack’s residents in work leave it to work; Little Current takes the most
- Tehkummah35
- Little Current25
- Wikwemikong Unceded25
- Central Manitoulin15
- Billings10
- Greater Sudbury / Grand Sudbury10
Of those coming in, Tehkummah supplies the most: 35.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Walk, cycle or ride transit: the choice of 6.9% of Assiginack’s commuters
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. 89% drive to work, more than the 88% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Only 19% worked at home on census day, against 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).
A commute like the middle of Canadian towns: 26.4 minutes from Assiginack
In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. Only 28% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. An hour or more: 6.9% of commuters, under the 7.9% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 21.6 minutes.
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.
10% fewer people are on EI in the Manitoulin census division than in 2019
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 21%. March 2021 was the busiest month, with 940 people on EI, 2.1 times 2019’s average. Roughly 4.4 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: one figure for all of the Manitoulin 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).
The Walkability grade for Assiginack: C+
Better than 39% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The places around Assiginack, side by side
The nearest places to Assiginack with figures are 9–29 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assiginack | 75% | 5.3% | $72K | 26.4 min | C | C+ |
| Wikwemikong Unceded 8.8 km | 47% | 14% | $49K | 13.7 min | C− | B+ |
| Little Current 26.2 km | 78% | 10% | $76K | 25 min | B− | A− |
| Central Manitoulin 29.1 km | 70% | 8.3% | $71K | 23.7 min | C | C |
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 Assiginack, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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.
- The Labour Force Survey. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around the town.
- In work. Why 15 to 64? Otherwise retirees would pull the rate down in older towns. The census can’t say how old a neighbourhood’s workers are, so the count of people in work takes every age.
- 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. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- 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.
- 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 Assiginack
What is the average household income in Assiginack?
The median household in Assiginack had $72,100 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Assiginack get to work?
By car: 89% of commuters, 6.9% walk; on census day 19% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Assiginack?
26.4 minutes is the average trip, with 28% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 6.9% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Assiginack work?
41% work in Assiginack itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Little Current (75), then Wikwemikong Unceded (35).
How many jobs are there in Assiginack?
The 2021 census counted about 235 people working in Assiginack: 0.9 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 41 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Assiginack?
The census put unemployment at 5.3% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Northeast economic region at 6%.
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).