Photo: Iramuse · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Entrelacs have lower incomes than those in 92% of Canadian towns
Workers in Entrelacs spend 38.3 minutes on the way to work on average, and 27% need an hour or more. Entrelacs counted 78% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. Census day 2021 found 9.3% of Entrelacs’ labour force without a job, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns.
Jobs and income in Entrelacs: what the figures say
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $57,900 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 38.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 27% 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.
Jobs & income in Entrelacs: graded D
Better than 9% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
Median household income in Entrelacs: $57,900 in 2020
7 of the 9 other places of 2,500+ in the Matawinie census division have a higher median. Entrelacs’ median is 22% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). 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 length of the trip to work in Entrelacs
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 33.9 minutes. In the middle of Quebec’s towns, the average commute is 26.5 minutes. Only 28% 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.
The daily tide in Entrelacs runs outward
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 10 to 1. The job is inside the municipality for 20% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
80% of Entrelacs’ residents in work leave it to work; Montréal takes the most
- Montréal10
Inbound, the leader is Montréal (10).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
How many in Entrelacs were working in 2021
Of the 9 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Matawinie census division, 8 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 49% were working. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 60% of the wider area’s adults in work. Counting those looking for work too, 54% 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.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 0% of Entrelacs’ commuters
Home was the workplace for 24%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 21%. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. The car is the way to work for 97% of commuters.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
42% more people are on EI in the Matawinie census division than in 2019
Roughly 4.5 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. The count topped out in January 2021 at 3,880 people, 3 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: one figure for all of the Matawinie 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).
Entrelacs on foot: a D− grade
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in and around Entrelacs
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Entrelacs | 78% | 9.3% | $58K | 38.3 min | D | D− |
| Chertsey 9 km | 64% | 8.6% | $58K | 42.1 min | D− | C |
| Sainte-Marguerite-du-Lac-Masson 10.1 km | 68% | 7.5% | $67K | 32.4 min | D | C |
| Sainte-Lucie-des-Laurentides 13.7 km | 74% | 11% | $62K | 34.9 min | D | D |
| Val-David 19 km | 73% | 12% | $64K | 27.3 min | C− | 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 Entrelacs, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- Household income. The 2020 income of the household at the midpoint, all sources and before tax. Inside a city we rebuild it from the dissemination areas’ income bands, so there it is an estimate.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured average.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- Employment Insurance. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
Questions about work in Entrelacs
How many jobs are there in Entrelacs?
The 2021 census counted about 70 people working in Entrelacs: 0.3 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 38 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Entrelacs?
The census put unemployment at 9.3% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Lanaudière economic region at 2.9%.
What is the average household income in Entrelacs?
At $57,900 before tax in 2020, the median household in Entrelacs compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Entrelacs get to work?
By car: 97% of commuters; on census day 24% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Entrelacs?
38.3 minutes is the average trip, with 28% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 27% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Entrelacs work?
20% work in Entrelacs itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Montréal (65), then Chertsey (40).
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).