Photo: Canadian Postcard Company · Public domainFallingbrook has higher household incomes than 99% of Canadian towns
Working at home: 44% of its workers, where the middle of Canadian towns has 21%. Residents of Fallingbrook take 27.7 minutes to reach work on average; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. The 2021 census found 76% of working-age people in Fallingbrook employed; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%.
Where Fallingbrook stands out on work
Higher incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $133,400 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Many work from home
On census day, 44% of those in work were working at home; the middle of Canadian towns is 21%. 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Fallingbrook: B+
Better than 70% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #149 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 earned in Fallingbrook: $133,400 in 2020
That puts Fallingbrook 46% above the median of Ontario’s towns, $91,600. Of the 102 other places of 2,500 or more in the Ottawa census division, 21 have a higher median. Pandemic benefits paid in 2020 lifted the incomes at the bottom, and they are counted here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Fallingbrook gets to work without a car for 12% of commuters
More people take transit to work here than in the middle of Ontario’s towns: 10% against 5.6%. 83% drive to work, fewer than 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).
Work and the working-age population of Fallingbrook
Of the 102 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Ottawa census division, 67 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
In October 2026, 61% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. Counting those looking for work too, 66% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 61%. 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.
55% more people are on EI in the Ottawa census division than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.7 receive EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 6%. The highest month was April 2021: 42,900 people, 3.3 times the 2019 level.
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). Fallingbrook doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Ottawa census division.
On getting around on foot, Fallingbrook grades A
Better than 94% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #338 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
For jobs and income, Fallingbrook is 123rd of 517 Canadian towns of 12,500 to 24,100
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Yellowknife Northwest Territories | 22,858 | 80% | 5.8% | $148K | A+ |
| 2 | North Saanich British Columbia | 12,986 | 85% | 5.9% | $121K | A+ |
| 3 | Sillery Quebec | 13,950 | 81% | 6.2% | $120K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Glebe-Dows Lake Ontario | 13,436 | 80% | 9.4% | $113K | A+ |
| 7 | Perth East Ontario | 13,423 | 86% | 3.9% | $96K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 24 | Wilmot Ontario | 22,890 | 81% | 6.8% | $115K | A |
| … | ||||||
| 121 | Loretteville Quebec | 15,653 | 81% | 7.3% | $74K | B+ |
| 122 | Esquimalt British Columbia | 19,512 | 78% | 7.9% | $76K | B+ |
| 123 | Fallingbrook Ontario | 17,836 | 76% | 7.8% | $133K | B+ |
| 124 | Vieux-Bourg Quebec | 14,774 | 82% | 7.6% | $67K | B+ |
| 125 | Old Barrhaven West Ontario | 22,012 | 74% | 10% | $128K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 517 | Oakridge Ontario | 13,913 | 51% | 21% | $60K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Fallingbrook, and others among Ontario’s towns.
The work picture around Fallingbrook
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fallingbrook | 76% | 7.8% | $133K | 27.7 min | B+ | A |
| Queenswood Heights 1.4 km | 73% | 8.1% | $110K | 25.3 min | B+ | A |
| Cardinal Creek 1.8 km | 78% | 8.6% | $137K | 28.2 min | A− | A |
| Queenswood - Chatelaine 1.9 km | 73% | 9.8% | $102K | 24.9 min | B | A− |
| Portobello South 2.8 km | 75% | 8.5% | $129K | 28.8 min | B | A |
| Orleans Village - Chateauneuf 3 km | 74% | 9.2% | $126K | 25.2 min | A− | A |
| Convent Glen - Orleans Woods 4 km | 74% | 11% | $110K | 24.7 min | B+ | 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 Fallingbrook, 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. 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. 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. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s average.
- 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. 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. Everything here sums the dissemination areas inside Fallingbrook’s lines, since the census has no neighbourhood profile; where people commute is on Ottawa’s page.
Questions about work in Fallingbrook
How do people in Fallingbrook get to work?
83% of commuters drive, 10% take public transit and 2% walk; 44% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How many jobs are there in Fallingbrook?
Jobs are counted by municipality, not neighbourhood: the page for Ottawa has the jobs based there and where its commuters go.
What is the unemployment rate in Fallingbrook?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 7.8% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario part metro area at 7.3% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Fallingbrook?
At $133,400 before tax in 2020, the median household in Fallingbrook compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).