Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Melancthon works elsewhere: the town has 0.4 jobs for each resident in work
Median household income in Melancthon was $99,600 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. Most commutes from Melancthon take well under an hour: the average is 35 minutes, and 20% take 60 minutes or longer. In Melancthon, 78% of residents aged 15 to 64 were working in May 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
The work figures that set Melancthon apart
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household had $99,600 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 35 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 20% 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.
Melancthon earns B− for jobs and income
Better than 52% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #291 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.
What households in Melancthon earn
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 85% of Canadian towns.
The middle of Ontario’s towns is $91,600, and Melancthon is 9% above it. Of the 7 other places of 2,500 or more in the Dufferin census division, 6 have a higher median. 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).
A longer commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 35 minutes from Melancthon
In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 28%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 32.5 minutes (Statistics Canada).
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.
Melancthon is quieter on a working day than at night
935 residents of Melancthon had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 335 people had theirs in Melancthon, wherever they lived.
About 6 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. 23% 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.
77% of Melancthon’s residents in work leave it to work; Shelburne takes the most
- Shelburne170
- Orangeville135
- Brampton55
- Alliston55
- Mono50
- Mississauga40
- Bolton35
- Dundalk35
- Mulmur30
- Toronto20
Inbound, the leader is Grey Highlands (25).
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 Melancthon work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Who in Melancthon has a job
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Dufferin census division, 5 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 65% of residents 15 and over were in work. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 64% of the wider area’s adults in work. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 70%. The figures are a snapshot of 11 May 2021, when pandemic rules still kept many people out of work or at home.
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.
Walk, cycle or ride transit: the choice of 5.1% of Melancthon’s commuters
Working at home: 21%, close to the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 93% of commuters.
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 Dufferin census division run 25% above their 2019 level
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4.4 are on EI. In the twelve months to August 2026 the number fell by 5%. The count topped out in April 2021 at 3,740 people, 3 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: the Dufferin 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).
Melancthon on foot: a C+ grade
Better than 44% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #709 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Melancthon is 380th of 778 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 4,800 people for jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 13 | Red Lake Ontario | 4,285 | 77% | 5.1% | $111K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 15 | Perth South Ontario | 4,055 | 87% | 7.3% | $102K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 32 | McDougall Ontario | 3,002 | 82% | 9.6% | $93K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 378 | Baturyn Alberta | 4,796 | 70% | 15% | $96K | B− |
| 379 | Oka Quebec | 4,312 | 80% | 6.7% | $86K | B− |
| 380 | Melancthon Ontario | 3,581 | 78% | 7.8% | $100K | B− |
| 381 | North Cypress-Langford Manitoba | 3,234 | 66% | 5.6% | $93K | B− |
| 382 | Sainte-Mélanie Quebec | 3,417 | 81% | 3.9% | $75K | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 778 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Melancthon, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Jobs and income in the places around Melancthon
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melancthon | 78% | 7.8% | $100K | 35 min | B− | C+ |
| Shelburne 10.2 km | 75% | 10% | $99K | 39.6 min | C+ | B+ |
| Dundalk 17 km | 73% | 7.8% | $86K | 34.8 min | C− | B |
| Mulmur 18.8 km | 76% | 9.9% | $117K | 44.5 min | B− | C− |
| Amaranth 19 km | 78% | 9% | $128K | 38.8 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 Melancthon, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- 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. Who travels where, from the census: workers with a regular workplace, sorted by the municipality they live in and the one they work in.
- 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.
- 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 Melancthon
How long is the commute from Melancthon?
On average 35 minutes; 28% take under 15 minutes and 20% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Melancthon work?
23% work in Melancthon itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Shelburne (170), then Orangeville (135).
How many jobs are there in Melancthon?
About 335 people had their usual place of work in Melancthon at the 2021 census, 0.4 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 108 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Melancthon?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Kitchener-Waterloo-Barrie economic region at 6.5%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 7.8%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Melancthon?
Before tax, half the households in Melancthon had more than $99,600 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Melancthon get to work?
93% of commuters go by car, 5.1% walk. On census day 21% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
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).