Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Innisfil works elsewhere: the town has 0.5 jobs for each resident in work
Jobs were held by 72% of people aged 15 to 64 in Innisfil in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. The median household in Innisfil had $101,400 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Workers in Innisfil spend 40.3 minutes on the way to work on average, and 26% need an hour or more.
What sets Innisfil apart on jobs and income
Higher incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $101,400 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 40.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 26% 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.
Innisfil grades C for jobs and income
Better than 29% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #568 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.
How Innisfil’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 87% of Canadian towns.
6 of the 17 other places of 2,500+ in the Simcoe census division have a higher median. Against the middle of Ontario’s towns ($91,600), Innisfil’s median is 11% above. These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes 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).
How long the commute from Innisfil takes
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 36.8 minutes. The middle of Ontario’s towns averages 28.6 minutes. Only 17% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 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 go out than come in: the working day in Innisfil
12,210 residents of Innisfil had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 5,915 people had theirs in Innisfil, wherever they lived.
Each person commuting in is matched by about 3 residents going out. 25% 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.
75% of Innisfil’s residents in work leave it to work; Barrie takes the most
- Barrie1,230
- Angus325
- Alliston240
- Springwater140
- Bradford135
- Oro-Medonte90
- Collingwood80
- Toronto65
- Vaughan55
- Stayner55
- Barrie2,750
- Toronto1,135
- Vaughan945
- Newmarket775
- Bradford650
- Alliston510
- Mississauga400
- Brampton265
- Aurora235
- Richmond Hill230
Coming the other way, Barrie sends the most (1,230).
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 Innisfil work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Work and the working-age population of Innisfil
Of the 17 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Simcoe census division, 8 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 65%. Counting retirees, 58% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 62% in work in October 2026. May 2021, when the census was taken, was a pandemic spring; unemployment has come down since, as the Labour Force Survey records.
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.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 3.1% of Innisfil’s commuters
21% worked at home on census day, about the same as in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit takes 0.8% of commuters, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
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.
38% more people are on EI in the Simcoe census division than in 2019
The count topped out in February 2021 at 31,440 people, 3.2 times the 2019 average. That is about 4.4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 5%.
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 Simcoe census division, Innisfil included.
On getting around on foot, Innisfil grades C+
Better than 43% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #712 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How Innisfil ranks: 76th of 95 Canadian towns of 35,500 to 68,400
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dieppe New Brunswick | 35,986 | 79% | 6.7% | $87K | A |
| 2 | Neufchatel Est—Lebourgneuf Quebec | 37,164 | 83% | 6.2% | $83K | A |
| 3 | Boucherville Quebec | 41,910 | 82% | 5.2% | $111K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | LaSalle Ontario | 36,452 | 69% | 13% | $119K | A− |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Stratford Ontario | 36,097 | 76% | 11% | $77K | B+ |
| 17 | Brant Ontario | 45,565 | 78% | 8.8% | $107K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 74 | Churchill Meadows Ontario | 48,872 | 65% | 14% | $128K | C |
| 75 | Newton British Columbia | 51,222 | 72% | 8.6% | $94K | C |
| 76 | Innisfil Ontario | 50,686 | 72% | 12% | $101K | C |
| 77 | Georgina Ontario | 53,630 | 72% | 11% | $98K | C |
| 78 | Strawberry Hill British Columbia | 37,037 | 72% | 9.4% | $92K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 95 | Metrotown British Columbia | 36,594 | 71% | 11% | $64K | D |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Innisfil, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Work next door to Innisfil
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Innisfil | 72% | 12% | $101K | 40.3 min | C | C+ |
| Keswick 11.8 km | 72% | 11% | $98K | 37.2 min | C | B |
| Barrie 12.5 km | 70% | 13% | $93K | 30 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 Innisfil, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- Household income. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- 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.
- Employment Insurance. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- 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 Innisfil
How many jobs are there in Innisfil?
In June 2026, 1,195 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Innisfil?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 6.5% for the Barrie metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Innisfil?
Before tax, half the households in Innisfil had more than $101,400 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Innisfil get to work?
Driving takes 95% of commuters to work, 0.8% take public transit, 2.1% walk and 0.2% cycle, and on census day 21% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Innisfil?
About 40.3 minutes on average, with 17% under a quarter-hour and 26% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Innisfil work?
25% work in Innisfil itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Barrie (2,750), then Toronto (1,135).
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).