Photo: K Danko · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Gananoque are lower than in 74% of Canadian towns
Most commutes from Gananoque take well under an hour: the average is 22.8 minutes, and 1.7% take 60 minutes or longer. Jobs located in Gananoque: 1,945, for 1,440 residents with a usual workplace. Gananoque counted 72% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%.
What stands out about work in Gananoque
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $66,700 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 1,945 jobs based in Gananoque and 1,440 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 22.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 1.7% 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 and income in Gananoque earn C
Better than 29% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #558 of 866 in Ontario.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, household income.
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 Gananoque had $66,700
9 of the 11 other places of 2,500+ in the Leeds and Grenville census division have a higher median. Gananoque’s median is 27% below the middle of Ontario’s towns ($91,600). Pandemic benefits paid in 2020 lifted the incomes at the bottom, and they are counted here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Workers pour into Gananoque: 27% more on a working day
For every resident who leaves Gananoque for work, about 2 people come in. 50% 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.
Time on the road to work from Gananoque
The middle of Ontario’s towns averages 28.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 41%, more than the 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19.6 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.
1,228 people come into Gananoque to work, most from Leeds and the Thousand Islands and Kingston
63% of the people who work in Gananoque live outside it, 625 of them in Leeds and the Thousand Islands, 12 km away. The main destination the other way is Kingston, with 525.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Gananoque has a job
Of the 11 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Leeds and Grenville census division, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 56%. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 49% of residents 15 and over were in work. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 59% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
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.
Leaving the car at home: 12% of commuters in Gananoque
The middle of Ontario’s towns has 3.2% walking; here, 11% do. 86% drive to work, fewer than the 88% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 20% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, 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).
EI claims in the Leeds and Grenville census division run 20% above their 2019 level
Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 1%. In February 2021 it reached 5,400, the most in the series and 2.7 times the 2019 average. Roughly 3.9 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 counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Leeds and Grenville census division, Gananoque included.
Everyday places on foot in Gananoque: A+
Better than 96% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #295 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Gananoque is 510th of 700 Canadian towns of 3,900 to 7,500 people for jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cornwallis Manitoba | 4,705 | 85% | 2.1% | $99K | A+ |
| 2 | New Maryland New Brunswick | 4,455 | 81% | 6.5% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | North River Heights Manitoba | 7,228 | 82% | 8.4% | $143K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Sioux Lookout Ontario | 6,122 | 79% | 5.7% | $103K | A+ |
| 6 | Red Lake Ontario | 4,285 | 77% | 5.1% | $111K | A+ |
| 7 | Perth South Ontario | 4,055 | 87% | 7.3% | $102K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 508 | Downtown Saskatchewan | 4,282 | 71% | 12% | $43K | C |
| 509 | Cumberland County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 6,040 | 69% | 12% | $69K | C |
| 510 | Gananoque Ontario | 5,568 | 72% | 12% | $67K | C |
| 511 | Normand Park Manitoba | 5,299 | 71% | 9% | $78K | C |
| 512 | Creditview Ontario | 5,598 | 69% | 12% | $121K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 700 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Gananoque, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Gananoque and its neighbours: work and income
Gananoque has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 12–34 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gananoque | 72% | 12% | $67K | 22.8 min | C | A+ |
| Leeds and the Thousand Islands 11.8 km | 75% | 11% | $91K | 30.8 min | C+ | C− |
| Frontenac Islands 20.3 km | 77% | 9.9% | $90K | 37.3 min | C+ | B |
| Kingston 30.2 km | 68% | 13% | $79K | 19.8 min | B− | A+ |
| Front of Yonge 32.6 km | 73% | 8.8% | $85K | 30.9 min | C | D |
| South Frontenac 33.5 km | 76% | 9% | $104K | 30.1 min | B | 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 Gananoque, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- 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. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s average.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- 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 Gananoque
How do people in Gananoque get to work?
Driving takes 86% of commuters to work, 11% walk and 1.1% cycle, and on census day 20% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Gananoque?
About 22.8 minutes on average, with 41% under a quarter-hour and 1.7% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Gananoque work?
50% work in Gananoque itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Kingston (525), then Leeds and the Thousand Islands (70).
How many jobs are there in Gananoque?
Some 1,945 people worked in Gananoque at the 2021 census: 1.4 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 207 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Gananoque?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 8% for the Ottawa economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Gananoque?
The census puts Gananoque at $66,700 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).