Photo: Community Archives · CC0Tweed has 0.6 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Median household income in Tweed was $69,200 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Jobs were held by 68% of people aged 15 to 64 in Tweed in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Most commutes from Tweed take well under an hour: the average is 32.2 minutes, and 11% take 60 minutes or longer.
Where Tweed stands out on work
Fewer people in work than most towns
With 68% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 47% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $69,200 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 32.2 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 11% last an hour or longer. 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 Tweed: D
Better than 6% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #800 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.
Work and the working-age population of Tweed
Of the 8 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Hastings census division, 4 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 47% of residents 15 and over were in work. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 55% of the wider area’s adults in work. 52% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Pandemic rules were in force on census day, 11 May 2021; the Labour Force Survey shows how jobs have moved since.
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 Tweed: households
5 of the 8 other places of 2,500+ in the Hastings census division have a higher median. Tweed’s median is 24% below the middle 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).
Time on the road to work from Tweed
Trips under 15 minutes: 26%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Ontario’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 29.9 minutes. The middle of Ontario’s towns averages 28.6 minutes.
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.
More go out than come in: the working day in Tweed
1,520 residents of Tweed had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 830 people had theirs in Tweed, wherever they lived.
Each person commuting in is matched by about 3 residents going out. 35% 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.
65% of Tweed’s residents in work leave it to work; Belleville takes the most
Of those coming in, Centre Hastings supplies the most: 95.
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 Tweed work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
4.8% of commuters from Tweed go without a car
Home was the workplace for 17%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
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.
26% more people are on EI in the Hastings census division than in 2019
April 2021 was the busiest month, with 7,740 people on EI, 2.9 times 2019’s average. That works out to around 4.2 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Over the year to August 2026, the count rose by 1%.
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). Tweed doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Hastings census division.
Tweed grades C+ for walkability
Better than 41% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #723 of 866 in Ontario.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Tweed and other Canadian towns of 4,600 to 8,800
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 22 | Alta Vista Ontario | 8,387 | 78% | 8.3% | $138K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 663 | Brown's Corners Ontario | 7,228 | 64% | 16% | $66K | D |
| 664 | Guysborough Nova Scotia | 4,721 | 63% | 18% | $54K | D |
| 665 | Tweed Ontario | 6,504 | 68% | 10% | $69K | D |
| 666 | Lowertown East Ontario | 6,996 | 62% | 14% | $55K | D |
| 667 | Belvedere Alberta | 5,337 | 55% | 19% | $62K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 691 | Chertsey Quebec | 5,678 | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Tweed, and others among Ontario’s towns.
Jobs and income in the places around Tweed
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Tweed | 68% | 10% | $69K | 32.2 min | D | C+ |
| Centre Hastings 12 km | 69% | 10% | $77K | 30.3 min | C− | B− |
| Madoc 14.1 km | 68% | 11% | $80K | 32.9 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 Tweed, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Counts of workers with a fixed workplace, by where they live and where they work, both taken as whole municipalities; the jobs figure takes everyone who works here, wherever home is.
- 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. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around the town.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed average.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
Questions about work in Tweed
What is the unemployment rate in Tweed?
The 2021 census found 10% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Kingston-Pembroke economic region, is 6.8% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Tweed?
Tweed’s middle household had $69,200 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Tweed get to work?
By car: 95% of commuters, 4.3% walk and 0.5% cycle; on census day 17% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Tweed?
32.2 minutes is the average trip, with 26% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 11% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Tweed work?
35% work in Tweed itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Belleville (450), then Centre Hastings (140).
How many jobs are there in Tweed?
In June 2026, 136 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
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).