Photo: DomLemLali · CC BY-SA 4.0Most of Laurierville works elsewhere: the town has 0.5 jobs for each resident in work
83% of people aged 15 to 64 in Laurierville had a job at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. In 2020, a household at the middle of Laurierville had $65,000 before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Most commutes from Laurierville take well under an hour: the average is 23 minutes, and 2.7% take 60 minutes or longer.
What stands out about work in Laurierville
More people in work than most towns
With 83% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 63% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 5% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 3.4% 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 ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 23 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 2.7% 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.
Jobs & income in Laurierville: graded B
Better than 59% 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.
How many in Laurierville were working in 2021
None of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the L'Érable census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 66%. Counting retirees, 63% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 60% in October 2026. 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.
What households in Laurierville earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
One of the 3 other places of 2,500+ in the L'Érable census division has a higher median. Set beside Quebec’s towns, where the median is $74,100, Laurierville sits 12% below. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
23 minutes from Laurierville to work, under the middle of Canadian towns
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 41%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 19.8 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.
More workers leave Laurierville each day than arrive
Outbound commuters outnumber inbound ones about 3 to 1. Of those who commute, 24% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
77% of Laurierville’s residents in work leave it to work; Plessisville takes the most
- Plessisville25
- Plessisville15
- Lyster15
- Notre-Dame-de-Lourdes15
- Saint-Rosaire15
- Victoriaville10
- Plessisville130
- Victoriaville60
- Plessisville35
- Lyster25
- Princeville20
- Thetford Mines15
- Inverness10
- Laurier-Station10
- Warwick10
Inbound, the leader is Plessisville (25).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Laurierville gets to work without a car for 9.9% of commuters
The middle of Quebec’s towns has 4.2% walking; here, 8.1% do. Fewer drive than in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 89% against 90%. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 17% 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).
In the L'Érable census division, 23% more people receive EI than in 2019
At its peak, in January 2021, 1,330 people were on EI, 3 times the 2019 average. That works out to around 4.2 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, 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 L'Érable census division, Laurierville included.
Laurierville grades B for walkability
Better than 63% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Laurierville and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Laurierville | 83% | 5% | $65K | 23 min | B | B |
| Plessisville 9.4 km | 90% | 2.4% | $78K | 19 min | A+ | C+ |
| Lyster 10.7 km | 86% | 5.6% | $58K | 25.9 min | C+ | C− |
| Plessisville 11.5 km | 83% | 3.4% | $54K | 16.6 min | B+ | A+ |
| Val-Alain 14.7 km | 78% | 4.9% | $64K | 29.7 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 Laurierville, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. Of everyone 15 or older who was working or job-hunting in the census week, the part still looking. Someone not seeking work isn’t in it at all.
- 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. 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. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- 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.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Towns and city neighbourhoods of 2,500 people or more, never a whole city and never a First Nations reserve. Middles are medians.
Questions about work in Laurierville
What is the average household income in Laurierville?
At $65,000 before tax in 2020, the median household in Laurierville compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Laurierville get to work?
By car: 89% of commuters, 8.1% walk and 1.8% cycle; on census day 17% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Laurierville?
23 minutes is the average trip, with 41% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 2.7% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Laurierville work?
Only 24% work in Laurierville itself; the rest go first to Plessisville (130) and Victoriaville (60).
How many jobs are there in Laurierville?
Statistics Canada counted 69 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Laurierville?
The 2021 census found 5% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Centre-du-Québec economic region, is 3.4% (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).