Photo: Fishonleash · CC BY 4.0Households in King earn more than in almost any other Canadian town
Commutes from King average 34.4 minutes, and 11% take an hour or more. 34% of its workers worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Jobs were held by 74% of people aged 15 to 64 in King in 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
Work in King, in a few figures
Higher incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $141,100 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 34.4 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 11% take an hour or more. The trip to work ↓
Many work from home
34% of workers worked at home on census day, against 21% 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.
Jobs and income in King earn C+
Better than 44% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #364 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.
$141,100 a year: the median household in King
The middle of Ontario’s towns is $91,600, and King is 54% above it. Of the 52 other places of 2,500 or more in the York census division, 9 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.
How long the commute from King takes
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 30.5 minutes. The middle of Ontario’s towns averages 28.6 minutes. Only 15% 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.
4.3% of commuters from King go without a car
Transit takes 1.4% of commuters, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 94% 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.
On a working day, King loses more workers than it gains
6,720 residents of King had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 4,565 people had theirs in King, wherever they lived.
For every person who comes in to work, about 2 residents travel out. 19% 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.
81% of King’s residents in work leave it to work; Vaughan takes the most
Of those coming in, Vaughan supplies the most: 420.
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 King work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Who in King has a job
Of the 52 other places of 2,500 people or more in the York census division, 45 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting those looking for work too, 67% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 59%: many residents are past working age. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 62% of the wider area’s adults in work. 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.
In the York census division, 39% more people receive EI than in 2019
That is about 3.5 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Over the year to August 2026, the count rose by 2%. April 2021 was the busiest month, with 58,380 people on EI, 3.7 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: the York 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).
King grades B− for walkability
Better than 49% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #688 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Out of 285 Canadian towns of 20,400 to 39,300, King comes 135th on jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 80% | 5.8% | $148K | A+ |
| 2 | Whitehorse Yukon | 34,129 | 82% | 5.6% | $112K | A+ |
| 3 | Arcola East Saskatchewan | 33,823 | 79% | 7.7% | $123K | A+ |
| 4 | Woolwich Ontario | 31,382 | 82% | 6.2% | $115K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 9 | Wilmot Ontario | 22,890 | 81% | 6.8% | $115K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Middlesex Centre Ontario | 21,689 | 79% | 7.7% | $125K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 133 | Orangeville Ontario | 33,070 | 75% | 11% | $104K | C+ |
| 134 | Sheldon Ontario | 25,488 | 70% | 12% | $104K | C+ |
| 135 | King Ontario | 29,077 | 74% | 11% | $141K | C+ |
| 136 | Bois-Francs Quebec | 35,858 | 73% | 9.3% | $92K | C+ |
| 137 | Essa Ontario | 26,036 | 73% | 11% | $108K | C+ |
| … | ||||||
| 285 | Parc-Extension Quebec | 29,066 | 61% | 16% | $48K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of King, and others among Ontario’s towns.
The work picture around King
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| King | 74% | 11% | $141K | 34.4 min | C+ | B− |
| Hope 8.9 km | 72% | 12% | $139K | 31.3 min | C+ | C+ |
| Teston 9.4 km | 69% | 12% | $150K | 32 min | C+ | B+ |
| Peace Village 9.8 km | 63% | 15% | $127K | 31.3 min | C | A− |
| Purpleville 10.4 km | 71% | 12% | $148K | 31.6 min | C+ | B+ |
| Aurora 11 km | 72% | 12% | $119K | 32.6 min | C+ | A− |
| Upper Thornhill Estates 11.5 km | 71% | 9.8% | $154K | 33.8 min | C+ | 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 King, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Commuters picked a band for their usual trip (under 15 minutes, 15 to 29, and so on). We place each person at the middle of their band, which lands a little above Statistics Canada’s own timed average.
- Where people commute. Counts of workers with a fixed workplace, by where they live and where they work, both taken as whole municipalities; the jobs figure takes everyone who works here, wherever home is.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t 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.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about work in King
What is the unemployment rate in King?
Two figures answer it: 11% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 7.1% for the Toronto metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in King?
At $141,100 before tax in 2020, the median household in King compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in King get to work?
Driving takes 94% of commuters to work, 1.4% take public transit, 2.8% walk and 0.1% cycle, and on census day 34% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from King?
About 34.4 minutes on average, with 15% under a quarter-hour and 11% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in King work?
Only 19% work in King itself; the rest go first to Vaughan (1,695) and Toronto (1,410).
How many jobs are there in King?
Some 4,565 people worked in King at the 2021 census: 0.7 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 1,547 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).