Photo: Bhazzard at English Wikipedia · Public domainCorunna’s household incomes are higher than in 84% of Canadian towns
Unemployment in Corunna stood at 8.7% on census day 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. From Corunna, the drive or ride to work averages 21.7 minutes, with 2.8% going an hour or longer. With 73% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, Corunna matches the middle of Canadian towns.
Corunna at work: what stands out
Work near the middle
With 73% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 53% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 21.7 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.8% 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 Corunna: graded A−
Better than 75% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #117 of 866 in Ontario.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Commuting times in Corunna
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19.6 minutes. In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 33%, more than the 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More workers leave Corunna each day than arrive
4,610 residents of Corunna had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 4,315 people had theirs in Corunna, wherever they lived.
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 Corunna’s residents in work leave it to work; Sarnia takes the most
- Sarnia1,750
- Chatham350
- Plympton-Wyoming160
- Petrolia115
- Enniskillen65
- Brooke-Alvinston40
- Dawn-Euphemia30
- Point Edward30
- Forest25
- Watford25
- Sarnia1,880
- Chatham520
- Petrolia180
- Sarnia 4590
- Point Edward85
- Forest45
- London40
- Kincardine40
- Enniskillen30
- Windsor20
Coming the other way, Sarnia sends the most (1,750).
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 Corunna work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
How many in Corunna were working in 2021
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Lambton census division, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 53%. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 57% in October 2026. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 58% of residents 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 Corunna had $98,500 in 2020
Set beside Ontario’s towns, where the median is $91,600, Corunna sits 8% above. Of the 7 other places of 2,500 or more in the Lambton census division, 2 have a higher median. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 3.8% of Corunna’s commuters
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 95% of commuters. Only 15% 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
In the Lambton census division, 20% more people receive EI than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4.6 are on EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 8%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 7,680 people, 2.9 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Not measured by town: EI beneficiaries (the Lambton 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).
On getting around on foot, Corunna grades B−
Better than 46% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #700 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Corunna is 112th of 547 Canadian towns of 11,100 to 21,400 people for jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 110 | Les Golfs Quebec | 15,842 | 78% | 7.6% | $122K | A− |
| 111 | Orleans Village - Chateauneuf Ontario | 12,399 | 74% | 9.2% | $126K | A− |
| 112 | St. Clair Ontario | 15,872 | 73% | 8.7% | $99K | A− |
| 113 | Guelph/Eramosa Ontario | 14,870 | 80% | 7.7% | $130K | B+ |
| 114 | Nelson British Columbia | 12,126 | 78% | 9.5% | $73K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 547 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Corunna, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Neighbouring places to Corunna, compared
The nearest places to Corunna with figures are 19–26 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Corunna | 73% | 8.7% | $99K | 21.7 min | A− | B− |
| Point Edward 19.1 km | 73% | 13% | $85K | 15.3 min | A− | B− |
| Sarnia 19.8 km | 66% | 13% | $78K | 17.2 min | B− | A− |
| Enniskillen 24.6 km | 82% | 5.2% | $105K | 23.5 min | A+ | C+ |
| Petrolia 25.6 km | 71% | 9.1% | $86K | 20.6 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 Corunna, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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 2020 income of the household at the midpoint, all sources and before tax. Inside a city we rebuild it from the dissemination areas’ income bands, so there it is an estimate.
- Trip times. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed 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. 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. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- 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.
- The municipality’s figures. Statistics Canada counts Corunna as part of St. Clair, so every census figure on this page is the whole municipality’s.
Questions about work in Corunna
What is the unemployment rate in Corunna?
The census put unemployment at 8.7% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Windsor-Sarnia economic region at 7.9%.
What is the average household income in Corunna?
The median household in Corunna had $98,500 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Corunna get to work?
By car: 95% of commuters, 3.2% walk and 0.6% cycle; on census day 15% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Corunna?
21.7 minutes is the average trip, with 33% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 2.8% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Corunna work?
34% work in Corunna itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Sarnia (1,880), then Chatham (520).
How many jobs are there in Corunna?
The 2021 census counted about 4,315 people working in Corunna: 0.9 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 310 businesses with employees in June 2026.
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).