Household incomes put Springbrook near the very top of Canadian towns
Of Springbrook’s residents aged 15 to 64, 69% were employed when the 2021 census was taken; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Residents of Springbrook take 33 minutes to reach work on average; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. When the 2021 census was taken, 13% of people in Springbrook who wanted a job had none, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
What Springbrook’s work numbers say
Higher incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $137,300 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 33 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
On jobs and income, Springbrook grades C
Better than 35% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #481 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.
Before tax, the median household in Springbrook had $137,300
That puts Springbrook 50% above the median of Ontario’s towns, $91,600. 13 of the 86 other places of 2,500+ in the Peel census division have a higher median. The year is 2020: emergency benefits like CERB count in these incomes, and they raised the bottom of the range.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Before tax, 2020: higher than in almost any Canadian town.
Springbrook gets to work without a car for 10% of commuters
87% drive to work, about the same as in the middle of Ontario’s towns. 28% of everyone in work worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. By transit: 9.4% of commuters, well above the 5.6% in the middle of Ontario’s towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
Springbrook at work: 69% of people aged 15 to 64
Of the 86 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Peel census division, 61 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
A more recent figure, for the wider area: 62% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 68% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
In the Peel census division, 51% more people receive EI than in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. April 2021 was the busiest month, with 86,000 people on EI, 3.7 times 2019’s average. That is about 4.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: the Peel 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 of Springbrook: A
Better than 90% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #399 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Ranked on jobs and income, Springbrook is 333rd among 552 Canadian towns of 10,500 to 20,200
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 331 | Credit Valley Ontario | 18,078 | 70% | 13% | $146K | C+ |
| 332 | Centennial Scarborough Ontario | 13,453 | 71% | 12% | $140K | C |
| 333 | Springbrook Ontario | 14,961 | 69% | 13% | $137K | C |
| 334 | Yellowhead County Alberta | 10,966 | 71% | 12% | $90K | C |
| 335 | Wetaskiwin Alberta | 13,703 | 68% | 12% | $70K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 552 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Springbrook, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Neighbouring places to Springbrook, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Springbrook | 69% | 13% | $137K | 33 min | C | A |
| Fletchers West 1.5 km | 67% | 14% | $118K | 34 min | C | A+ |
| Credit Valley 1.9 km | 70% | 13% | $146K | 33.8 min | C+ | A |
| Northwood Park 2.4 km | 65% | 14% | $112K | 34.2 min | C− | A |
| New Springbrook 2.5 km | 72% | 11% | $140K | 32.2 min | C+ | A− |
| Churchville 2.6 km | 71% | 13% | $142K | 29.7 min | B− | A |
| Hickory Woods 3.1 km | 65% | 15% | $93K | 33.9 min | C− | A+ |
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 Springbrook, 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. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- Employment Insurance. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- Which towns we compare. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
- Neighbourhood figures. Everything here sums the dissemination areas inside Springbrook’s lines, since the census has no neighbourhood profile; where people commute is on Brampton’s page.
Questions about work in Springbrook
How many jobs are there in Springbrook?
There is no count for a neighbourhood: the jobs figure, and where commuters go, are published for Brampton as one municipality.
What is the unemployment rate in Springbrook?
The 2021 census found 13% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Toronto metro area, is 7.1% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Springbrook?
Springbrook’s middle household had $137,300 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Springbrook get to work?
87% of commuters go by car, 9.4% take public transit and 1% walk. On census day 28% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · 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).