Photo: Nichole Ouellette · CC BY-SA 4.0Batiscan has 0.5 jobs for every resident in work, so most leave town for work
Out of work in May 2021: 6% of Batiscan’s labour force, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. An hour or more each way is the commute for 11% of workers in Batiscan; the average is 28.7 minutes. In 2020, a household at the middle of Batiscan had $65,000 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
Batiscan at work: what stands out
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 6% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 4.3% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $65,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Batiscan grades D for jobs and income
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 for 71% of 15-to-64s in Batiscan
None of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Francheville census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting retirees, 47% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 55% in October 2026. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 49%. 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.
What households in Batiscan earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
The middle of Quebec’s towns is $74,100, and Batiscan is 12% below it. 2 of the 3 other places of 2,500+ in the Francheville census division have a higher median. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
Batiscan is quieter on a working day than at night
235 residents of Batiscan had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 120 people had theirs in Batiscan, wherever they lived.
For every person who comes in to work, about 2 residents travel out. 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 Batiscan’s residents in work leave it to work; Trois-Rivières takes the most
Coming the other way, Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade sends the most (30).
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 Batiscan work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Walk, cycle or ride transit: the choice of 3.2% of Batiscan’s commuters
20% worked at home on census day, about the same as in the middle of Canadian towns. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 92% 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.
Time on the road to work from Batiscan
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 25.8 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Only 29% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
In the Francheville census division, 21% more people receive EI than in 2019
January 2021 was the busiest month, with 9,960 people on EI, 3.5 times 2019’s average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.9 receive EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell 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). Batiscan shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of the Francheville census division.
Walking in Batiscan earns C+
Better than 45% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Batiscan, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Batiscan | 71% | 6% | $65K | 28.7 min | D | C+ |
| Saint-Pierre-les-Becquets 3.3 km | 77% | 5.9% | $64K | 21.3 min | B− | B |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade 10.3 km | 72% | 5.4% | $56K | 27 min | D | B+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Batiscan 11.4 km | 84% | 6.7% | $63K | 29.1 min | C | C− |
| Champlain 11.9 km | 79% | 4.1% | $72K | 26.1 min | B− | C |
| Saint-Stanislas 16.9 km | 83% | 6.2% | $56K | 28.7 min | C | A |
| Saint-Narcisse 19.1 km | 78% | 6.6% | $61K | 26.8 min | C− | 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 Batiscan, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Jobs count everyone whose usual workplace lies in the municipality, residents or commuters from elsewhere, from Statistics Canada’s home-by-workplace table.
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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.
- 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 Batiscan
How long is the commute from Batiscan?
28.7 minutes is the average trip, with 29% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 11% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Batiscan work?
14% work in Batiscan itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Trois-Rivières (120), then Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade (45).
How many jobs are there in Batiscan?
In June 2026, 33 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Batiscan?
Two figures answer it: 6% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.3% for the Mauricie economic region in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Batiscan?
The median household in Batiscan had $65,000 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Batiscan get to work?
By car: 92% of commuters, 3.2% walk; on census day 20% of those in work worked from home.
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).