Photo: Earth Science and Remote Sensing Unit , Lyndon B. Johnson Space Center · Public domainMost of Crossroads works elsewhere: the town has 0.3 jobs for each resident in work
Of Crossroads’ residents aged 15 to 64, 82% were employed when the 2021 census was taken, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. In 2020, a household at the middle of Crossroads had $98,000 before tax, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. When the 2021 census was taken, 7.8% of people in Crossroads who wanted a job had none; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What Crossroads’ work numbers say
More people in work than most towns
Counting everyone 15 and over, 66% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 82%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
The census counted 7.8% unemployed in 2021, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Unemployment ↓
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, Crossroads grades A
Better than 94% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
82% of working-age people in Crossroads have jobs
Of the 8 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Queens census division, 6 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 66%. 71% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. The census caught the labour market on 11 May 2021, deep in the pandemic, so unemployment and working from home both ran above normal.
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.
More go out than come in: the working day in Crossroads
For every person who comes in to work, about 4 residents travel out. Of those who commute, 5.4% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
95% of Crossroads’ residents in work leave it to work; Charlottetown takes the most
In the other direction the biggest source is Charlottetown, with 80.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Household income in Crossroads
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 84% of Canadian towns.
That puts Crossroads 20% above the median of Prince Edward Island’s towns, $82,000. One of the 8 other places of 2,500+ in the Queens census division has 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).
Crossroads gets to work without a car for 2.4% of commuters
The car is the way to work for 95% of commuters. Home was the workplace for 17%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
23.4 minutes from Crossroads to work, under the middle of Canadian towns
Timed exactly, the average is 20.3 minutes (Statistics Canada). Only 29% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 40% in the middle of Prince Edward Island’s towns. 4.8% spend an hour or longer getting to work; the middle of Prince Edward Island’s towns has 2.7%.
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 Queens census division, 12% more people receive EI than in 2019
Roughly 5.4 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%. The count topped out in March 2021 at 7,760 people, 2.1 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: the Queens census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Crossroads on foot: a D grade
Better than 10% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Crossroads
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Crossroads | 82% | 7.8% | $98K | 23.4 min | A | D |
| Stratford 5.9 km | 79% | 8% | $91K | 19.5 min | A+ | C |
| Charlottetown 9 km | 75% | 9.7% | $66K | 15.6 min | B | A |
| North Shore 10 km | 80% | 6.5% | $97K | 22 min | A | D− |
| East River, Part 1 11.2 km | 86% | 8.2% | $82K | 26.2 min | A− | D |
| Vernon River 11.4 km | 70% | 11% | $82K | 28.8 min | C− | C− |
| Cornwall 13.5 km | 80% | 7.8% | $86K | 19.7 min | A | C |
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 Crossroads, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. Of everyone 15 or older who was working or job-hunting in the census week, the part still looking. Someone not seeking work isn’t in it at all.
- 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. 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.
- 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.
- Employment Insurance. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- In work. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- 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 Crossroads
What is the unemployment rate in Crossroads?
On census day in May 2021 unemployment stood at 7.8%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%.
What is the average household income in Crossroads?
Crossroads’s middle household had $98,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Crossroads get to work?
95% of commuters go by car, 2.4% walk. On census day 17% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Crossroads?
On average 23.4 minutes; 29% take under 15 minutes and 4.8% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Crossroads work?
5.4% work in Crossroads itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Charlottetown (470), then Stratford (90).
How many jobs are there in Crossroads?
About 195 people had their usual place of work in Crossroads at the 2021 census, 0.3 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 59 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, 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).