Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0McNab/Braeside has fewer jobs than residents in work: 0.2 for each
The median household in McNab/Braeside had $99,100 before tax in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. From McNab/Braeside, the drive or ride to work averages 32 minutes, with 12% going an hour or longer. Jobs were held by 77% of people aged 15 to 64 in McNab/Braeside in 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
What McNab/Braeside’s work numbers say
Higher incomes than most towns
At $99,100 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 32 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 12% 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.
On jobs and income, McNab/Braeside grades B−
Better than 49% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #306 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 McNab/Braeside’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 85% of Canadian towns.
That puts McNab/Braeside 8% above the median of Ontario’s towns, $91,600. One of the 15 other places of 2,500+ in the Renfrew 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).
A longer commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 32 minutes from McNab/Braeside
Timed exactly, the average is 28.9 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Ontario’s towns averages 28.6 minutes. Only 28% 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 McNab/Braeside
2,340 residents of McNab/Braeside had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 445 people had theirs in McNab/Braeside, wherever they lived.
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 13 to 1.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
88% of McNab/Braeside’s residents in work leave it to work; Arnprior takes the most
Of those coming in, Ottawa supplies the most: 45.
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 McNab/Braeside work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
In and out of work in McNab/Braeside
Of the 15 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Renfrew census division, 14 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting retirees, 57% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 61% in work in October 2026. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 63%. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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: 2.1% of McNab/Braeside’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 96% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 16%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
13% more people are on EI in the Renfrew census division than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4.2 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 1%. At its peak, in April 2021, 5,690 people were on EI, 2.4 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). McNab/Braeside shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of the Renfrew census division.
On getting around on foot, McNab/Braeside grades C−
Better than 17% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #824 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Out of 688 Canadian towns of 5,800 to 11,300, McNab/Braeside comes 359th on jobs and income
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Alta Vista Ontario | 8,387 | 78% | 8.3% | $138K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 25 | West Perth Ontario | 10,080 | 88% | 5% | $92K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 357 | Otonabee-South Monaghan Ontario | 8,084 | 74% | 9.2% | $96K | B− |
| 358 | Roberval Quebec | 9,828 | 73% | 6% | $63K | B− |
| 359 | McNab/Braeside Ontario | 8,340 | 77% | 9.5% | $99K | B− |
| 360 | Barrington Nova Scotia | 6,720 | 74% | 12% | $68K | B− |
| 361 | Rosenberg Ontario | 9,831 | 70% | 9.4% | $112K | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 688 | Beasley Ontario | 6,338 | 49% | 17% | $47K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of McNab/Braeside, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Neighbouring places to McNab/Braeside, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| McNab/Braeside | 77% | 9.5% | $99K | 32 min | B− | C− |
| Arnprior 7.5 km | 72% | 9.4% | $76K | 28.8 min | C− | A |
| Bristol 13 km | 68% | 6.9% | $67K | 45.8 min | D− | C+ |
| Horton 14.5 km | 75% | 8% | $91K | 25.8 min | B | D− |
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 McNab/Braeside, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- In work. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- 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. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- 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.
- 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. Monthly, and only for metro areas and economic regions. It is the up-to-date rate we set beside the census’s 2021 snapshot.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
Questions about work in McNab/Braeside
What is the average household income in McNab/Braeside?
The census puts McNab/Braeside at $99,100 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in McNab/Braeside get to work?
96% of commuters go by car, 2.1% walk. On census day 16% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from McNab/Braeside?
On average 32 minutes; 28% take under 15 minutes and 12% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in McNab/Braeside work?
12% work in McNab/Braeside itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Arnprior (785), then Ottawa (775).
How many jobs are there in McNab/Braeside?
About 445 people had their usual place of work in McNab/Braeside at the 2021 census, 0.2 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 157 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in McNab/Braeside?
The 2021 census found 9.5% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario part metro area, is 7.3% (October 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).