Photo: Loozrboy from Toronto, Canada · CC BY-SA 2.0There are 2.4 jobs in Point Edward for every resident in work
Workers in Point Edward spend 15.3 minutes on the way to work on average, and 3% need an hour or more. Unemployment in Point Edward stood at 13% on census day 2021, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. In 2020, a household at the middle of Point Edward had $85,000 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
The work figures that set Point Edward apart
A local job centre
1,375 people work in Point Edward and 565 residents commute to a fixed workplace; the middle of Canadian towns has 0.8 jobs per working resident. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 15.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 3% 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 Point Edward: A−
Better than 81% 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.
On a working day, 1,490 people work in Point Edward, 2.2 times its working residents
565 residents of Point Edward had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 1,375 people had theirs in Point Edward, wherever they lived.
Each resident commuting out of Point Edward is matched by about 3 coming in.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
How long the commute from Point Edward takes
Timed exactly, the average is 12.7 minutes (Statistics Canada). In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 66% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns.
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.
1,304 people come into Point Edward to work, most from Sarnia and Plympton-Wyoming
Of everyone working in Point Edward, 95% come in from elsewhere; 1,005 make the 4 km trip from Sarnia. Sarnia is where the largest group of commuters out goes, 430 of them.
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 Point Edward work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
The share of 15-to-64s in work in Point Edward: 73%
Of the 8 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Lambton census division, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 57% in October 2026. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 53%. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 46%: many residents are past working age. 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.
Earnings at home in Point Edward: households
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 66% of Canadian towns.
Of the 8 other places of 2,500 or more in the Lambton census division, 5 have a higher median. That puts Point Edward 7% below the median of Ontario’s towns, $91,600. 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).
Leaving the car at home: 2.2% of commuters in Point Edward
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 15% against 21%. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 94% 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 Lambton census division run 20% above their 2019 level
In February 2021 it reached 7,680, the most in the series and 2.9 times the 2019 average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 4.6 receive EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 8%.
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). Point Edward doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Lambton census division.
Point Edward grades B− for walkability
Better than 53% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to Point Edward
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Point Edward | 73% | 13% | $85K | 15.3 min | A− | B− |
| Sarnia 3.6 km | 66% | 13% | $78K | 17.2 min | B− | A− |
| Corunna 19.1 km | 73% | 8.7% | $99K | 21.7 min | A− | B− |
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 Point Edward, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- 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. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- Which towns we compare. The comparison pool is places of 2,500 people or more, towns or neighbourhoods inside cities, without whole cities or reserves, and we compare with its median.
Questions about work in Point Edward
What is the unemployment rate in Point Edward?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Windsor-Sarnia economic region at 7.9%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 13%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Point Edward?
Point Edward’s middle household had $85,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Point Edward get to work?
94% of commuters go by car, 2.2% walk. On census day 15% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Point Edward?
On average 15.3 minutes; 66% take under 15 minutes and 3% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Point Edward work?
Only 13% work in Point Edward itself; the rest go first to Sarnia (430) and Corunna (30).
How many jobs are there in Point Edward?
About 1,375 people had their usual place of work in Point Edward at the 2021 census, 2.4 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 122 businesses with employees in June 2026.
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).