Photo: 40rev · CC BY-SA 3.0Moosonee has a smaller share of its working-age people in jobs than 81% of Canadian towns
An hour or more each way is the commute for 3.4% of workers in Moosonee; the average is 12.8 minutes. Half the households in Moosonee had more than $93,300 in 2020, before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. 8.5% of the labour force in Moosonee was out of work at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What Moosonee’s work numbers say
Fewer people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 67% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 62%. In work ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 12.8 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 3.4% take an hour or more. 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Moosonee: A−
Better than 80% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Moosonee: 67%
Of the 7 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Cochrane census division, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 68% of residents that age. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 56% of the wider area’s adults in work. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
Commuting times in Moosonee
In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 79% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 10.7 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.
More workers leave Moosonee each day than arrive
For every person who comes in to work, about 3 residents travel out. 74% 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.
26% of Moosonee’s residents in work leave it to work; Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part takes the most
Inbound, the leader is Factory Island 1 (15).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
What households in Moosonee earn
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 79% of Canadian towns.
Against the middle of Ontario’s towns ($91,600), Moosonee’s median is 2% above. One of the 7 other places of 2,500+ in the Cochrane census division has a higher median. Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for 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).
Walking, cycling or transit: 23% of Moosonee’s commuters
Only 9.2% worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car takes 66% of commuters here, under the 88% in the middle of Ontario’s towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
EI claims in the Cochrane census division run 12% below their 2019 level
In July 2021 it reached 4,270, the most in the series and 2 times the 2019 average. That is about 4.7 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 3%.
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). Moosonee doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Cochrane census division.
How walkable Moosonee is: A
Better than 95% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Moosonee
No closer places have figures: these lie 3–134 km from Moosonee.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Moosonee | 67% | 8.5% | $93K | 12.8 min | A− | A |
| Factory Island 1 3.2 km | 50% | 16% | $76K | 12.5 min | C+ | A+ |
| Waskaganish 133.6 km | 53% | 11% | $115K | 9.9 min | A− | 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 Moosonee, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Household income. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- Where people commute. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- Employment Insurance. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- 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 Moosonee
How many jobs are there in Moosonee?
The 2021 census found about 425 people with their usual workplace in Moosonee, or 0.8 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 43 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Moosonee?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 8.5% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Northeast economic region at 6% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Moosonee?
The census puts Moosonee at $93,300 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Moosonee get to work?
66% of commuters drive, 23% walk; 9.2% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Moosonee?
The average commute is 12.8 minutes; 79% of trips take under 15 minutes and 3.4% an hour or more.
Where do people in Moosonee work?
Most stay: 74% work in Moosonee. The rest go first to Cochrane, Unorganized, North Part (80) and Iroquois Falls (15).
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).