Photo: Stéphane Duquesne · CC BY-SA 3.0La Conception has 0.3 jobs for every resident in work, so most leave town for work
Out of work in May 2021: 16% of La Conception’s labour force; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Getting to work from La Conception takes 29.3 minutes on average, an hour or more for 13%. The median household in La Conception had $72,700 before tax in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
Work in La Conception, in a few figures
More unemployment than most towns
Census day in 2021 put 16% out of work (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and the area’s monthly survey gave 4.5% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
At $72,700 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 29.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 13% 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.
On jobs and income, La Conception grades C−
Its strongest measure is household income; 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.
La Conception at work: 71% of people aged 15 to 64
None of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Les Laurentides census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting those looking for work too, 61% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 52% were working. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 60% in work in October 2026. 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 La Conception earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 59% of Canadian towns.
No other place of 2,500 or more in the Les Laurentides census division has a higher median. Set beside Quebec’s towns, where the median is $74,100, La Conception sits 2% below. These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes 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 La Conception
Trips under 15 minutes: 28%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 26.7 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More go out than come in: the working day in La Conception
385 residents of La Conception had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 120 people had theirs in La Conception, wherever they lived.
About 4 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. 11% 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.
89% of La Conception’s residents in work leave it to work; Mont-Tremblant takes the most
In the other direction the biggest source is Sainte-Agathe-des-Monts, with 15.
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 La Conception work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 0% of La Conception’s commuters
Home was the workplace for 25%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 21%. 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.
29% more people are on EI in the Les Laurentides census division than in 2019
Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 2%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 4,300 people on EI, 3.3 times 2019’s average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 4 receive EI.
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). La Conception shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of the Les Laurentides census division.
The Walkability grade for La Conception: C−
Better than 21% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to La Conception
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| La Conception | 71% | 16% | $73K | 29.3 min | C− | C− |
| Brébeuf 8.2 km | 78% | 8.9% | $64K | 25.5 min | C | C− |
| Mont-Tremblant 10.3 km | 72% | 13% | $67K | 20.5 min | C+ | B+ |
| Amherst 11.7 km | 64% | 15% | $58K | 31.5 min | D− | D |
| Labelle 13.5 km | 76% | 8.5% | $62K | 26.3 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 La Conception, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- Trip times. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- 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. 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. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- Which towns we compare. The comparison pool is places of 2,500 people or more, towns or neighbourhoods inside cities, without whole cities or reserves, and we compare with its median.
Questions about work in La Conception
What is the average household income in La Conception?
Before tax, half the households in La Conception had more than $72,700 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in La Conception get to work?
92% of commuters go by car. On census day 25% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from La Conception?
On average 29.3 minutes; 28% take under 15 minutes and 13% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in La Conception work?
Only 11% work in La Conception itself; the rest go first to Mont-Tremblant (205) and Montréal (30).
How many jobs are there in La Conception?
About 120 people had their usual place of work in La Conception at the 2021 census, 0.3 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 72 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in La Conception?
The 2021 census found 16% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Laurentides economic region, is 4.5% (October 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).