Photo: Original uploader was Chris-13 at fr.wikipedia · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Clermont are lower than in 75% of Canadian towns
Most commutes from Clermont take well under an hour: the average is 17.2 minutes, and 4% take 60 minutes or longer. Of Clermont’s residents aged 15 to 64, 78% were employed when the 2021 census was taken; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Jobs located in Clermont: 1,080, for 1,020 residents with a usual workplace.
What the numbers say about work in Clermont
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $66,600 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
More jobs than the typical town
With 1,080 jobs based in Clermont and 1,020 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 17.2 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4% 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.
On jobs and income, Clermont grades B+
Better than 68% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #173 of 507 in Quebec.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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.
Household income in Clermont: $66,600 at the median
Set beside Quebec’s towns, where the median is $74,100, Clermont sits 10% below. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Every working day, Clermont’s workforce grows by 5%
Of those who commute, 43% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
The length of the trip to work in Clermont
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 15.6 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 63%, more 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.
640 people come into Clermont to work, most from La Malbaie and Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs
- La Malbaie410
- Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs75
- Notre-Dame-des-Monts45
- Baie-Saint-Paul35
- Saint-Irénée15
- Saint-Urbain15
- Québec15
- Les Éboulements10
- Saint-Hilarion10
- La Malbaie420
- Baie-Saint-Paul75
- Québec20
- Saint-Urbain15
- Notre-Dame-des-Monts10
- Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs10
- L'Isle-aux-Coudres10
- Les Éboulements10
59% of the people who work in Clermont live outside it, 410 of them in La Malbaie, 7 km away. La Malbaie is where the largest group of commuters out goes, 420 of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In Clermont, 78% of the working-age population has a job
A larger share in work than in 67% of Canadian towns.
Counting retirees, 53% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 62% in October 2026. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 59% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. 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.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 4.7% of Clermont’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 7% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
About as many people are on EI in the Charlevoix-Est census division as in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 3%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 1,960 people on EI, 2.8 times 2019’s average. That works out to around 4.4 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division.
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 Charlevoix-Est census division, Clermont included.
Walking in Clermont earns B
Better than 56% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #352 of 507 in Quebec.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Out of 639 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 4,200, Clermont comes 209th on jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 78% | 4.2% | $112K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 89% | 4.1% | $103K | A+ |
| 11 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska Quebec | 3,307 | 85% | 4.8% | $91K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 207 | Downtown West End Alberta | 2,796 | 77% | 10% | $80K | B+ |
| 208 | East Garafraxa Ontario | 2,976 | 81% | 8.7% | $134K | B+ |
| 209 | Clermont Quebec | 3,117 | 78% | 9.9% | $67K | B+ |
| 210 | Electoral Area A, Columbia-Shuswap British Columbia | 3,672 | 76% | 12% | $85K | B+ |
| 211 | Cardston Alberta | 3,863 | 75% | 7.3% | $76K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 639 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Clermont, and others among Quebec’s towns.
How Clermont compares with the places nearby
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Clermont | 78% | 9.9% | $67K | 17.2 min | B+ | B |
| Saint-Aimé-des-Lacs 6.9 km | 76% | 9.4% | $74K | 26.2 min | C+ | C+ |
| La Malbaie 7.2 km | 76% | 9.1% | $64K | 18.3 min | B− | B− |
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 Clermont, 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. 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Trip times. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s 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 Clermont
Where do people in Clermont work?
43% work in Clermont itself. Of those who leave, the most go to La Malbaie (420), then Baie-Saint-Paul (75).
How many jobs are there in Clermont?
The 2021 census counted about 1,080 people working in Clermont: 1.1 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 105 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Clermont?
At the 2021 census 9.9% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Capitale-Nationale economic region, gives 4.7% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Clermont?
The median household in Clermont had $66,600 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Clermont get to work?
By car: 94% of commuters, 4.7% walk; on census day 7% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Clermont?
17.2 minutes is the average trip, with 63% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 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).