Photo: Cantons-de-l'Est · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Armagh trail those of 95% of Canadian towns
67% of people aged 15 to 64 in Armagh had a job at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Armagh is the usual workplace of 105 people, and 400 of its own residents commute to a job. The 2021 census put unemployment in Armagh at 11%, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Work in Armagh: the figures worth knowing
Fewer people in work than most towns
With 67% 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 $55,800 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 30.6 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 6.4% 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.
Armagh grades D− for jobs and income
Better than 3% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; its weakest, household income.
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 Armagh
None of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Bellechasse census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 61% in October 2026. Working or looking, 53% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 47%. May 2021, when the census was taken, was a pandemic spring; unemployment has come down since, as the Labour Force Survey records.
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.
What households earned in Armagh: $55,800 in 2020
Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Bellechasse census division has a higher median. That puts Armagh 25% below the median of Quebec’s towns, $74,100. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
At 30.6 minutes, commutes from Armagh are longer than in the middle of Canadian towns
6.4% spend an hour or longer getting to work; the middle of Quebec’s towns has 5.3%. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 26.7 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 18%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’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.
More workers leave Armagh each day than arrive
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 7 to 1. 14% 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.
86% of Armagh’s residents in work leave it to work; Lévis takes the most
- Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Rivière-du-Sud15
- Notre-Dame-Auxiliatrice-de-Buckland10
- Saint-Damien-de-Buckland10
- Sainte-Claire10
Coming the other way, Sainte-Euphémie-sur-Rivière-du-Sud sends the most (15).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Leaving the car at home: 2.1% of commuters in Armagh
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 98% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 16% against 21%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
In the Bellechasse census division, 27% more people receive EI than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 3.2 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%. The highest month was January 2021: 1,810 people, 3.2 times the 2019 level.
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). Figures for EI beneficiaries are published for the Bellechasse census division as a whole, not for Armagh alone.
The walkability of Armagh: C
Better than 29% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Jobs near Armagh: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Armagh | 67% | 11% | $56K | 30.6 min | D− | C |
| Saint-Raphaël 14.2 km | 78% | 6.3% | $69K | 30.3 min | C− | C+ |
| Saint-Damien-de-Buckland 14.5 km | 79% | 6.5% | $63K | 22.1 min | B− | B− |
| Saint-François-de-la-Rivière-du-Sud 16.8 km | 84% | 3.7% | $72K | 21.3 min | A− | B− |
| Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse 19.2 km | 88% | 6.3% | $69K | 23.6 min | B+ | 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 Armagh, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- 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.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- In work. Everyone with a job, whatever their age, divided by the residents aged 15 to 64 at the 2021 Census: below the municipality the census doesn’t split work by age, and this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood can be given.
- 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. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
Questions about work in Armagh
Where do people in Armagh work?
Only 14% work in Armagh itself; the rest go first to Lévis (65) and Saint-Damien-de-Buckland (55).
How many jobs are there in Armagh?
The 2021 census counted about 105 people working in Armagh: 0.3 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 33 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Armagh?
Two figures answer it: 11% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.3% for the Chaudière-Appalaches economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Armagh?
The census puts Armagh at $55,800 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Armagh get to work?
By car: 98% of commuters, 2.1% walk; on census day 16% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Armagh?
30.6 minutes is the average trip, with 18% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 6.4% taking an hour or more.
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).