Photo: Louise Montgrain · CC BY 3.0Households in Lorraine earn more than those in 98% of Canadian towns
In Lorraine, 79% of residents aged 15 to 64 were working in May 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Lorraine is the usual workplace of 605 people, and 2,860 of its own residents commute to a job. 30% of its workers worked at home on census day, against 21% in the middle of Canadian towns.
The work numbers behind Lorraine
More people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 79% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 62%. In work ↓
Higher incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $129,600 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 31.7 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 8.3% 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.
Lorraine earns B+ for jobs and income
Better than 70% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #167 of 507 in Quebec.
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.
Who in Lorraine has a job
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Thérèse-De Blainville census division, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 62% in October 2026. Working or looking, 67% of everyone 15 and over was in the labour force. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 62% of residents 15 and over were in work. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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 earned in Lorraine: $129,600 in 2020
No other place of 2,500 or more in the Thérèse-De Blainville census division has a higher median. Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Lorraine’s median is 75% above. In 2020 emergency benefits topped up many low incomes, and the census counts them here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Lorraine has a slower trip to work than the middle of Canadian towns: 31.7 minutes
Trips under 15 minutes: 16%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. 8.3% spend an hour or longer getting to work; the middle of Quebec’s towns has 5.3%. Timed exactly, the average is 28.1 minutes (Statistics Canada). 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
A commuter town: Lorraine sends out more workers than it takes in
It sends out some 7 workers for every one it takes in. 7.7% 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.
92% of Lorraine’s residents in work leave it to work; Laval takes the most
- Laval660
- Montréal635
- Terrebonne210
- Rosemère210
- Sainte-Thérèse140
- Blainville120
- Mirabel95
- Bois-des-Filion90
- Boisbriand85
- Saint-Jérôme75
Terrebonne sends the largest group the other way, 85 people.
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 Lorraine work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Lorraine gets to work without a car for 5% of commuters
The car is the way to work for 93% of commuters. More people take transit to work here than in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 3.5% against 1.5%.
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.
In the Thérèse-De Blainville census division, 27% more people receive EI than in 2019
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 2.9 are on EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 5%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 8,850 people on EI, 4.1 times 2019’s average.
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). Behind EI beneficiaries sits data gathered across the Thérèse-De Blainville census division, with Lorraine one part of it.
On getting around on foot, Lorraine grades B+
Better than 71% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #278 of 507 in Quebec.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Lorraine next to Canadian towns of 6,800 to 13,100: 197th of 648 on jobs and income
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Labrador City Newfoundland and Labrador | 7,965 | 79% | 5.5% | $146K | A+ |
| 2 | Silverwood Heights Saskatchewan | 8,153 | 81% | 5.8% | $118K | A+ |
| 3 | North River Heights Manitoba | 7,228 | 82% | 8.4% | $143K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 11 | Boischatel Quebec | 9,250 | 85% | 4.8% | $118K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 15 | Chibougamau Quebec | 7,273 | 82% | 3.7% | $85K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 18 | Shannon Quebec | 7,088 | 81% | 3.7% | $113K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 195 | Summerland British Columbia | 12,343 | 76% | 8.2% | $82K | B+ |
| 196 | Georgian Bluffs Ontario | 12,061 | 76% | 8.7% | $95K | B+ |
| 197 | Lorraine Quebec | 9,721 | 79% | 7.5% | $130K | B+ |
| 198 | Drummond/North Elmsley Ontario | 8,817 | 78% | 7.2% | $97K | B+ |
| 199 | South Huron Ontario | 10,781 | 79% | 7.9% | $77K | B+ |
| … | ||||||
| 648 | René-Goupil Quebec | 11,663 | 58% | 15% | $54K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Lorraine, and others among Quebec’s towns.
How the places next to Lorraine compare on work
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lorraine | 79% | 7.5% | $130K | 31.7 min | B+ | B+ |
| Bois-des-Filion 1.7 km | 82% | 6.3% | $83K | 31.6 min | B− | A− |
| Rosemère 3.4 km | 80% | 6.5% | $120K | 31.2 min | B+ | A |
| Auteuil 4.8 km | 78% | 6.8% | $108K | 32.6 min | B | A |
| Sainte-Thérèse 5.4 km | 80% | 7.8% | $65K | 26.7 min | C+ | A+ |
| Blainville 6.4 km | 80% | 5.6% | $105K | 29.3 min | B+ | A− |
| Sainte-Rose 7.3 km | 80% | 6.4% | $111K | 29.3 min | A− | A |
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 Lorraine, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. Commuters picked a band for their usual trip (under 15 minutes, 15 to 29, and so on). We place each person at the middle of their band, which lands a little above Statistics Canada’s own timed average.
- Where people commute. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- 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. Statistics Canada surveys households every month; the results come out for metro areas and economic regions, never for single towns, and keep the rate current after 2021.
- In work. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- 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 Lorraine
How long is the commute from Lorraine?
The average commute is 31.7 minutes; 16% of trips take under 15 minutes and 8.3% an hour or more.
Where do people in Lorraine work?
Only 7.7% work in Lorraine itself; the rest go first to Laval (660) and Montréal (635).
How many jobs are there in Lorraine?
The 2021 census found about 605 people with their usual workplace in Lorraine, or 0.2 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 297 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Lorraine?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 7.5% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Montréal metro area at 6.9% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Lorraine?
At $129,600 before tax in 2020, the median household in Lorraine compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Lorraine get to work?
93% of commuters drive, 3.5% take public transit, 1.2% walk and 0.3% cycle; 30% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
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).