Photo: Dillan Payne · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Beaverton top those of 78% of Canadian towns
Jobs were held by 77% of people aged 15 to 64 in Beaverton in 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Commutes from Beaverton average 38.9 minutes, and 25% take an hour or more. Of everyone in Beaverton working or looking for work in May 2021, 8.6% were unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
The work figures that set Beaverton apart
Work near the middle
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 77% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 58%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 38.9 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 25% take an hour or more. 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 Beaverton: graded C+
Better than 40% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #418 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.
Commuting times in Beaverton
Trips under 15 minutes: 23%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 36.2 minutes. In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More of Beaverton’s workers leave each day than arrive
3,590 residents of Beaverton had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 2,350 people had theirs in Beaverton, wherever they lived.
About 2 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. The job is inside the municipality for 34% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
66% of Beaverton’s residents in work leave it to work; Uxbridge takes the most
Coming the other way, Lindsay sends the most (545).
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 Beaverton work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Work and the working-age population of Beaverton
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Durham census division, 5 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 58% of residents 15 and over were in work. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 62% in October 2026. Counting those looking for work too, 64% of people aged 15 and over were 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 median household in Beaverton had $92,600 in 2020
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 or more in the Durham census division, 6 have a higher median. Beaverton’s median is 1% above the middle of Ontario’s towns ($91,600). CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones that year.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Beaverton gets to work without a car for 5.4% of commuters
The car is the way to work for 93% of commuters. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 19% against 21%. Transit takes 0.5% of commuters, against 3.5% 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 the Durham census division, 44% more people receive EI than in 2019
In February 2021 it reached 38,290, the most in the series and 3.2 times the 2019 average. Roughly 4.6 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%.
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). Beaverton doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Durham census division.
The walkability of Beaverton: B
Better than 63% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #601 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How Beaverton ranks: 329th of 589 Canadian towns of 9,600 to 18,500
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | North Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 85% | 5.9% | $121K | A+ |
| 2 | Sillery Quebec | 13,950 | 81% | 6.2% | $120K | A+ |
| 3 | Central Saanich British Columbia | 18,184 | 85% | 4.9% | $103K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Glebe-Dows Lake Ontario | 13,436 | 80% | 9.4% | $113K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 7 | Wellesley Ontario | 12,413 | 84% | 3.9% | $119K | A+ |
| 8 | Perth East Ontario | 13,423 | 86% | 3.9% | $96K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 327 | Acadia Alberta | 9,950 | 72% | 14% | $74K | C+ |
| 328 | Severn Ontario | 15,716 | 74% | 11% | $94K | C+ |
| 329 | Brock Ontario | 13,710 | 77% | 8.6% | $93K | C+ |
| 330 | Leeds and the Thousand Islands Ontario | 10,185 | 75% | 11% | $91K | C+ |
| 331 | Sheridan Ontario | 15,775 | 68% | 14% | $116K | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 589 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Beaverton, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Next to Beaverton: how nearby places compare
Beaverton has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 26–30 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Beaverton | 77% | 8.6% | $93K | 38.9 min | C+ | B |
| Keswick 26 km | 72% | 11% | $98K | 37.2 min | C | B |
| Ramara 29.7 km | 70% | 14% | $85K | 34.2 min | C− | D |
| Uxbridge 29.9 km | 79% | 8.4% | $117K | 33.9 min | B | 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 Beaverton, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- 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. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- 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. Everyone with a job, whatever their age, divided by the residents aged 15 to 64 at the 2021 Census: below the municipality the census doesn’t split work by age, and this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood can be given.
- 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. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
- The municipality’s figures. Statistics Canada counts Beaverton as part of Brock, so every census figure on this page is the whole municipality’s.
Questions about work in Beaverton
How many jobs are there in Beaverton?
Some 2,350 people worked in Beaverton at the 2021 census: 0.7 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 360 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Beaverton?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Toronto economic region at 7.6%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 8.6%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Beaverton?
The census puts Beaverton at $92,600 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Beaverton get to work?
Driving takes 93% of commuters to work, 0.5% take public transit, 4.6% walk and 0.3% cycle, and on census day 19% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Beaverton?
About 38.9 minutes on average, with 23% under a quarter-hour and 25% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Beaverton work?
Only 34% work in Beaverton itself; the rest go first to Uxbridge (270) and Keswick (235).
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).