Photo: Roncanada · CC BY-SA 4.0Maskinongé has lower household incomes than 90% of Canadian towns
Of Maskinongé’s residents aged 15 to 64, 78% were employed when the 2021 census was taken, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Jobs located in Maskinongé: 295, for 725 residents with a usual workplace. When the 2021 census was taken, 5.8% of people in Maskinongé who wanted a job had none; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What Maskinongé’s work numbers say
Less unemployment than most towns
On census day in 2021 5.8% were unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; by October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the area at 4.3%. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half the households here had more than $59,000 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Maskinongé grades C for jobs and income
Better than 31% 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.
In Maskinongé, 78% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Maskinongé census division, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting retirees, 55% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. In October 2026, 55% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 58% of residents that age. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
Household income in Maskinongé: $59,000 at the median
3 of the 5 other places of 2,500+ in the Maskinongé census division have a higher median. Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Maskinongé’s median is 20% below. Pandemic support paid in 2020, CERB first among it, is part of these before-tax incomes.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
More workers leave Maskinongé each day than arrive
It sends out some 3 workers for every one it takes in. The job is inside the municipality for 16% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
84% of Maskinongé’s residents in work leave it to work; Louiseville takes the most
- Louiseville85
- Sainte-Ursule30
- Trois-Rivières20
- Saint-Justin20
- Yamachiche10
- Berthierville10
- Louiseville315
- Trois-Rivières125
- Berthierville50
- Yamachiche20
- Shawinigan15
- Saint-Justin15
- Montréal15
- Saint-Édouard-de-Maskinongé10
- Saint-Barthélemy10
- Saint-Gabriel10
Of those coming in, Louiseville supplies the most: 85.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Without a car, 1.1% of Maskinongé’s commuters get to work
Nearly everyone drives: 97% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 14%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. 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).
24.3 minutes from Maskinongé to work, about the middle of Canadian towns
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 42% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Long trips, an hour or more, are about as common as in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 6%. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 23.7 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.
35% more people are on EI in the Maskinongé census division than in 2019
At its peak, in January 2021, 2,690 people were on EI, 2.9 times the 2019 average. Roughly 4.3 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw 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). Figures for EI beneficiaries are published for the Maskinongé census division as a whole, not for Maskinongé alone.
Walking in Maskinongé earns C
Better than 31% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Maskinongé
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maskinongé | 78% | 5.8% | $59K | 24.3 min | C | C |
| Louiseville 6.4 km | 74% | 7.6% | $48K | 20.1 min | C | A− |
| Sainte-Ursule 9.6 km | 86% | 4.2% | $52K | 21.8 min | B | B− |
| Saint-Barthélemy 10.3 km | 78% | 6.7% | $61K | 31.2 min | D | C+ |
| Yamachiche 15.3 km | 77% | 7% | $68K | 21.3 min | B− | B |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel 18.8 km | 80% | 4.8% | $80K | 19.9 min | A | C− |
| Saint-Cuthbert 19.2 km | 76% | 6% | $62K | 29 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 Maskinongé, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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.
- 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. A monthly count of Employment Insurance beneficiaries for the whole census division. It tracks the local job market, but it is not an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- 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. 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 Maskinongé
How long is the commute from Maskinongé?
24.3 minutes is the average trip, with 42% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 6% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Maskinongé work?
16% work in Maskinongé itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Louiseville (315), then Trois-Rivières (125).
How many jobs are there in Maskinongé?
The 2021 census counted about 295 people working in Maskinongé: 0.4 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 77 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Maskinongé?
The 2021 census found 5.8% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Mauricie economic region, is 4.3% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Maskinongé?
The median household in Maskinongé had $59,000 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Maskinongé get to work?
By car: 97% of commuters, 1.1% walk; on census day 14% of those in work worked from home.
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).