Photo: Ross Dunn · CC BY-SA 2.0Households in Fitzroy earn more than those in 94% of Canadian towns
Fitzroy counted 77% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. Residents of Fitzroy take 38.8 minutes to reach work on average; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. On census day, 36% of workers here were at home, next to 21% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Work in Fitzroy: the figures worth knowing
Higher incomes than most towns
The median household had $112,500 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 38.8 minutes; the middle of Canadian towns is 26. Getting to work ↓
Many work from home
On census day, 36% 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 Fitzroy: B−
Better than 49% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #310 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.
Household income in Fitzroy: $112,500 at the median
Against the middle of Ontario’s towns ($91,600), Fitzroy’s median is 23% above. Of the 102 other places of 2,500 or more in the Ottawa census division, 47 have 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).
Fitzroy gets to work without a car for 0.5% of commuters
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 95% of commuters.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
How many in Fitzroy were working in 2021
Of the 102 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Ottawa census division, 73 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 65% of residents 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 59%. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 61% in work in October 2026. 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.
In the Ottawa census division, 55% more people receive EI than in 2019
That is about 3.7 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 rose by 6%. In April 2021 it reached 42,900, the most in the series and 3.3 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). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Ottawa census division, Fitzroy included.
Walkability in Fitzroy: graded C−
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Fitzroy is 363rd of 700 Canadian towns of 4,500 to 8,600 people for 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 | Cornwallis Manitoba | 4,705 | 85% | 2.1% | $99K | A+ |
| 3 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 6 | Sioux Lookout Ontario | 6,122 | 79% | 5.7% | $103K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 8 | Island Park-Wellington Village Ontario | 5,486 | 81% | 7% | $161K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 23 | Alta Vista Ontario | 8,387 | 78% | 8.3% | $138K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 361 | McNab/Braeside Ontario | 8,340 | 77% | 9.5% | $99K | B− |
| 362 | Barrington Nova Scotia | 6,720 | 74% | 12% | $68K | B− |
| 363 | Fitzroy Ontario | 6,400 | 77% | 9.8% | $113K | B− |
| 364 | The Ravines of Rainbow Creek Ontario | 5,333 | 73% | 10% | $118K | B− |
| 365 | Central Frederick Ontario | 5,895 | 76% | 12% | $71K | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 700 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Fitzroy, and others among Ontario’s towns.
The places around Fitzroy, side by side
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fitzroy | 77% | 9.8% | $113K | 38.8 min | B− | C− |
| Kinburn 10.4 km | 84% | 6.4% | $125K | 29.1 min | A | C |
| Pontiac 11.5 km | 75% | 6.8% | $98K | 37.5 min | C+ | C− |
| Dunrobin 13.3 km | 76% | 7.6% | $168K | 28.4 min | B+ | D |
| Carp 16.8 km | 81% | 7.8% | $158K | 26.9 min | A | C+ |
| Arnprior 17.7 km | 72% | 9.4% | $76K | 28.8 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 Fitzroy, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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. 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.
- Employment Insurance. A monthly count of Employment Insurance beneficiaries for the whole census division. It tracks the local job market, but it is not an unemployment rate.
- 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.
- 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. Everything here sums the dissemination areas inside Fitzroy’s lines, since the census has no neighbourhood profile; where people commute is on Ottawa’s page.
Questions about work in Fitzroy
What is the average household income in Fitzroy?
Fitzroy’s middle household had $112,500 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Fitzroy get to work?
95% of commuters drive, 0.5% walk; 36% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How many jobs are there in Fitzroy?
The census places jobs by municipality, so the answer is in Ottawa’s figures, with the flows of its commuters.
What is the unemployment rate in Fitzroy?
The census put unemployment at 9.8% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Ottawa-Gatineau, Ontario part metro area at 7.3%.
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).