Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Prince are higher than in 95% of Canadian towns
With 73% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, Prince matches the middle of Canadian towns. Prince is the usual workplace of 25 people, and 305 of its own residents commute to a job. The 2021 census put unemployment in Prince at 12%, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
What the numbers say about work in Prince
Work near the middle
At the 2021 census 73% of the 15-to-64s were in work (73% in the middle of Canadian towns); across all ages 15 and over, 51%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $115,900 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
On jobs and income, Prince grades A−
Better than 77% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
Prince households: $115,900 a year at the median
Set beside Ontario’s towns, where the median is $91,600, Prince sits 27% above. No other place of 2,500 or more in the Algoma census division has a higher median. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Each working day, more people leave Prince for work than come in
It sends out some 12 workers for every one it takes in. The job is inside the municipality for 0% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
100% of Prince’s residents in work leave it to work; Sault Ste. Marie takes the most
In the other direction the biggest source is Sault Ste. Marie, with 25.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Prince has a job
Of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Algoma census division, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
A more recent figure, for the wider area: 56% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 57% 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 51%. 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.
Leaving the car at home: 0% of commuters in Prince
Home was the workplace for 13%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 100% of commuters.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
A shorter commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 23.7 minutes from Prince
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19.5 minutes. In the middle of Ontario’s towns, the average commute is 28.6 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 18%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Long trips are rarer than in the middle of Ontario’s towns: 0% take an hour or more, against 7.9%.
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.
In the Algoma census division, 4% more people receive EI than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 5 receive EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 6%. The highest month was April 2021: 7,740 people, 2.4 times the 2019 level.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Algoma census division, not by town. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Prince earns D− for walkability
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How the places next to Prince compare on work
Prince has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 14–37 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Prince | 73% | 12% | $116K | 23.7 min | A− | D− |
| Sault Ste. Marie 13.8 km | 66% | 13% | $73K | 14.5 min | B− | A− |
| Garden River 14 27.1 km | 53% | 14% | $54K | 20.1 min | D | C+ |
| Laird 35.7 km | 72% | 9.8% | $99K | 32.4 min | C | D− |
| Macdonald, Meredith and Aberdeen Additional 36.4 km | 73% | 8.7% | $96K | 33.8 min | C | D− |
| Algoma, Unorganized, North Part 36.5 km | 62% | 16% | $76K | 31.2 min | D | D |
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 Prince, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- 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. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- Household income. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- 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.
- 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.
Questions about work in Prince
What is the average household income in Prince?
At $115,900 before tax in 2020, the median household in Prince compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Prince get to work?
By car: 100% of commuters; on census day 13% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Prince?
23.7 minutes is the average trip, with 18% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 0% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Prince work?
0% work in Prince itself; of those who leave, the most go to Sault Ste. Marie (305).
How many jobs are there in Prince?
The 2021 census counted about 25 people working in Prince: 0.1 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 12 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Prince?
The census put unemployment at 12% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Northeast economic region at 6%.
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).