Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0A smaller share of people aged 15 to 64 are in work in Brown's Corners than in 88% of Canadian towns
On average, people in Brown's Corners spend 28.6 minutes getting to work, next to 26 for the middle of Canadian towns. 40% of its workers worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Half the households in Brown's Corners had more than $65,800 in 2020, before tax, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Brown's Corners’ work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 64% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 48%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 16% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 7.1% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $65,800 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Many work from home
40% 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 & income in Brown's Corners: graded D
Better than 6% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #798 of 866 in Ontario.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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.
In Brown's Corners, 64% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 52 other places of 2,500 people or more in the York census division, 7 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
In October 2026, 62% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 58% of residents that age. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 48% of residents 15 and over were in work. 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.
Earnings at home in Brown's Corners: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 76% of Canadian towns.
Set beside Ontario’s towns, where the median is $91,600, Brown's Corners sits 28% below. Every other place of 2,500 or more in the York census division has a higher median. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Without a car, 11% of Brown's Corners’ commuters get to work
By bus, train or subway: 6.4%, 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
EI claims in the York census division run 39% above their 2019 level
That works out to around 3.5 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 2%. The count topped out in April 2021 at 58,380 people, 3.7 times the 2019 average.
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). Brown's Corners doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the York census division.
The walkability of Brown's Corners: A
Better than 95% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #316 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Canadian towns of 5,100 to 9,800, and where Brown's Corners sits
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 79% | 5.5% | $146K | A+ |
| 2 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | North River Heights Manitoba | 7,228 | 82% | 8.4% | $143K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Sioux Lookout Ontario | 6,122 | 79% | 5.7% | $103K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 8 | Island Park-Wellington Village Ontario | 5,486 | 81% | 7% | $161K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 20 | Alta Vista Ontario | 8,387 | 78% | 8.3% | $138K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 664 | Annapolis County, Subdivision A Nova Scotia | 6,719 | 65% | 17% | $53K | D |
| 665 | Saint-Vincent-de-Paul Quebec | 8,352 | 73% | 9.2% | $57K | D |
| 666 | Brown's Corners Ontario | 7,228 | 64% | 16% | $66K | D |
| 667 | Tweed Ontario | 6,504 | 68% | 10% | $69K | D |
| 668 | Downtown Commercial Core Alberta | 9,286 | 69% | 15% | $51K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 694 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Brown's Corners, and others among Ontario’s towns.
The places around Brown's Corners, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brown's Corners | 64% | 16% | $66K | 28.6 min | D | A |
| Buttonville 1.8 km | 67% | 11% | $134K | 29.8 min | C+ | B+ |
| Unionville 2.4 km | 66% | 13% | $113K | 31.3 min | C | A |
| Cachet 3.4 km | 67% | 11% | $145K | 30.2 min | C+ | B− |
| Underwood 3.9 km | 57% | 19% | $86K | 30.7 min | D | A |
| Hagerman's Corners 4.2 km | 61% | 17% | $88K | 31.6 min | C− | A |
| Milliken 4.2 km | 57% | 20% | $81K | 32.5 min | D | 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 Brown's Corners, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- 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. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- 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. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. The census reaches a neighbourhood only through its dissemination areas, and Brown's Corners’ figures add those up. Markham’s page has the commuting flows, which exist only for the whole municipality.
Questions about work in Brown's Corners
How do people in Brown's Corners get to work?
Driving takes 86% of commuters to work, 6.4% take public transit and 4.2% walk, and on census day 40% of those in work were at home.
How many jobs are there in Brown's Corners?
The census places jobs by municipality, so the answer is in Markham’s figures, with the flows of its commuters.
What is the unemployment rate in Brown's Corners?
Two figures answer it: 16% 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 Brown's Corners?
Before tax, half the households in Brown's Corners had more than $65,800 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
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).