Photo: Ptaff · CC0Most of Brébeuf works elsewhere: the town has 0.2 jobs for each resident in work
Jobs were held by 78% of people aged 15 to 64 in Brébeuf in 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Before tax, the typical household in Brébeuf brought in $64,000 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. The 2021 census put unemployment in Brébeuf at 8.9%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What the numbers say about work in Brébeuf
Work near the middle
At the 2021 census 78% of the 15-to-64s were in work (73% in the middle of Canadian towns); across all ages 15 and over, 54%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $64,000 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.
Brébeuf earns C for jobs and income
Better than 33% 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.
Earnings at home in Brébeuf: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 80% of Canadian towns.
Brébeuf’s median is 14% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). Of the 6 other places of 2,500 or more in the Les Laurentides census division, 4 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).
The daily tide in Brébeuf runs outward
For every person who comes in to work, about 17 residents travel out. The job is inside the municipality for 12% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
88% of Brébeuf’s residents in work leave it to work; Mont-Tremblant takes the most
- Amherst10
Of those coming in, Amherst supplies the most: 10.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Brébeuf has a job
All 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Les Laurentides census division have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 54% were working. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 60% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Counting those looking for work too, 60% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. 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.
Walking, cycling or transit: 3.3% of Brébeuf’s commuters
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 96% of commuters.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
A commute like the middle of Canadian towns: 25.5 minutes from Brébeuf
A quarter-hour or less for 38% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. 7.6% 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 23.1 minutes. In the middle of Quebec’s towns, the average commute is 26.5 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.
EI claims in the Les Laurentides census division run 29% above their 2019 level
January 2021 was the busiest month, with 4,300 people on EI, 3.3 times 2019’s average. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4 are on EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 2%.
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). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Les Laurentides census division, Brébeuf included.
Getting around Brébeuf on foot earns C−
Better than 15% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Jobs near Brébeuf: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Brébeuf | 78% | 8.9% | $64K | 25.5 min | C | C− |
| La Conception 8.2 km | 71% | 16% | $73K | 29.3 min | C− | C− |
| Mont-Tremblant 8.7 km | 72% | 13% | $67K | 20.5 min | C+ | B+ |
| Amherst 10.5 km | 64% | 15% | $58K | 31.5 min | D− | D |
| Saint-Faustin--Lac-Carré 16.8 km | 77% | 9.8% | $70K | 24.4 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 Brébeuf, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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. Who travels where, from the census: workers with a regular workplace, sorted by the municipality they live in and the one they work in.
- Employment Insurance. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- 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 Brébeuf
What is the unemployment rate in Brébeuf?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Laurentides economic region at 4.5%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 8.9%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Brébeuf?
The median household in Brébeuf had $64,000 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Brébeuf get to work?
By car: 96% of commuters, 3.3% walk; on census day 8.9% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Brébeuf?
25.5 minutes is the average trip, with 38% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 7.6% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Brébeuf work?
Only 12% work in Brébeuf itself; the rest go first to Mont-Tremblant (195) and Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts (25).
How many jobs are there in Brébeuf?
Statistics Canada counted 47 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, 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).