Photo: Canmenwalker · CC BY 4.0Fewer of Dixie’s 15-to-64s are in work than in 94% of Canadian towns
Residents of Dixie take 30.1 minutes to reach work on average; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. In 2020, a household at the middle of Dixie had $64,400 before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Unemployment in Dixie stood at 18% on census day 2021, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Dixie’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
The 2021 census found 59% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 44%. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 7.1% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 18%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $64,400 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 30.1 minutes on average, against 26 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.
Dixie earns D− for jobs and income
Better than 3% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #835 of 866 in Ontario.
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
Dixie at work: 59% of people aged 15 to 64
None of the 86 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Peel census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 44% were working. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 62% of the wider area’s adults in work. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 54% of residents that age. 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.
Household income in Dixie
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 79% of Canadian towns.
Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Peel census division has a higher median. Set beside Ontario’s towns, where the median is $91,600, Dixie sits 30% below. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Walk, cycle or ride transit: the choice of 14% of Dixie’s commuters
The middle of Ontario’s towns has 5.6% on transit; here it is 11%. 83% drive to work, fewer than the 88% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Working at home: 26% here, 21% 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.
51% more people are on EI in the Peel census division than in 2019
That works out to around 4.2 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. April 2021 was the busiest month, with 86,000 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 Peel 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).
Dixie grades A+ for walkability
Better than 98% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #250 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Dixie and other Canadian towns of 2,600 to 5,100
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 12 | Red Lake Ontario | 4,285 | 77% | 5.1% | $111K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 14 | Perth South Ontario | 4,055 | 87% | 7.3% | $102K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 32 | McDougall Ontario | 3,002 | 82% | 9.6% | $93K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 768 | Spaniard's Bay Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,664 | 53% | 20% | $64K | D− |
| 769 | McCauley Alberta | 4,060 | 48% | 21% | $43K | D− |
| 770 | Dixie Ontario | 3,749 | 59% | 18% | $64K | D− |
| 771 | South Common Ontario | 4,867 | 63% | 15% | $67K | D− |
| 772 | Eastwood Alberta | 4,681 | 53% | 21% | $57K | D− |
| … | ||||||
| 794 | 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 Dixie, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Jobs near Dixie: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dixie | 59% | 18% | $64K | 30.1 min | D− | A+ |
| Applewood 1.6 km | 66% | 14% | $86K | 31.1 min | C− | A+ |
| Markland Wood 1.9 km | 73% | 12% | $107K | 29.8 min | B− | A+ |
| Alderwood 2.9 km | 74% | 12% | $111K | 28.4 min | B | A+ |
| Rathwood 3.2 km | 69% | 13% | $103K | 29.2 min | C+ | A+ |
| Etobicoke West Mall 3.4 km | 68% | 14% | $85K | 32.1 min | C− | A+ |
| Mississauga Valleys 3.8 km | 68% | 13% | $95K | 29.8 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 Dixie, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Why 15 to 64? Otherwise retirees would pull the rate down in older towns. The census can’t say how old a neighbourhood’s workers are, so the count of people in work takes every age.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Trip times. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- Employment Insurance. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
- Neighbourhood figures. We add up Dixie’s dissemination areas for its census figures. Flows between places and timed averages exist only for the whole municipality: see Mississauga’s page.
Questions about work in Dixie
What is the unemployment rate in Dixie?
The 2021 census found 18% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Toronto metro area, is 7.1% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Dixie?
At $64,400 before tax in 2020, the median household in Dixie compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Dixie get to work?
Driving takes 83% of commuters to work, 11% take public transit and 3.4% walk, and on census day 26% of those in work were at home.
How many jobs are there in Dixie?
There is no count for a neighbourhood: the jobs figure, and where commuters go, are published for Mississauga as one municipality.
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).