Photo: Pierre Bona · CC BY-SA 3.0Noyan has 0.2 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Half the households in Noyan had more than $65,000 in 2020, before tax, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. In May 2021, unemployment in Noyan reached 6.5%; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Getting to work from Noyan takes 34.1 minutes on average, an hour or more for 14%.
What sets Noyan apart on jobs and income
Less unemployment than most towns
The Labour Force Survey had the area at 4.3% in October 2026; on census day in 2021 the town’s own rate was 6.5%, where the middle of Canadian towns had 9.9%. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $65,000 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 34.1 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 14% 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.
Noyan earns D for jobs and income
Better than 8% 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.
In Noyan, 74% of the working-age population has a job
None of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Le Haut-Richelieu census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
In October 2026, 62% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 57%. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 53%: many residents are past working age. 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 Noyan earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Le Haut-Richelieu census division has a higher median. Noyan’s median is 12% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). The year is 2020: emergency benefits like CERB count in these incomes, and they raised the bottom of the range.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Time on the road to work from Noyan
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 31.4 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Only 24% 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
Each working day, more people leave Noyan for work than come in
395 residents of Noyan had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 70 people had theirs in Noyan, wherever they lived.
For every person who comes in to work, about 13 residents travel out. The job is inside the municipality for 11% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
89% of Noyan’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu takes the most
Henryville sends the largest group the other way, 10 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 Noyan work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Without a car, 0% of Noyan’s commuters get to work
Nearly everyone drives: 96% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 9.3%, 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
29% more people are on EI in the Le Haut-Richelieu census division than in 2019
January 2021 was the busiest month, with 7,220 people on EI, 3.8 times 2019’s average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.4 receive EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 5%.
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 Le Haut-Richelieu census division, Noyan included.
Noyan earns D− for walkability
Better than 2% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Noyan and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Noyan | 74% | 6.5% | $65K | 34.1 min | D | D− |
| Lacolle 5.9 km | 80% | 5.3% | $72K | 30.6 min | C | B+ |
| Saint-Paul-de-l'Île-aux-Noix 6.2 km | 79% | 4.7% | $74K | 29.2 min | C+ | D |
| Saint-Georges-de-Clarenceville 10.3 km | 65% | 12% | $65K | 38.8 min | D− | C− |
| Venise-en-Québec 13.3 km | 74% | 9.5% | $68K | 34.8 min | D | C+ |
| Saint-Bernard-de-Lacolle 14 km | 81% | 3% | $80K | 31 min | B− | D |
| Henryville 14.9 km | 76% | 3.4% | $72K | 29.6 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 Noyan, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- Unemployment. The census-week jobless rate for residents 15 and over. Its base is the labour force, those employed plus those actively looking.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- 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. Jobs count everyone whose usual workplace lies in the municipality, residents or commuters from elsewhere, from Statistics Canada’s home-by-workplace table.
- 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 Noyan
What is the average household income in Noyan?
The census puts Noyan at $65,000 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Noyan get to work?
By car: 96% of commuters; on census day 9.3% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Noyan?
34.1 minutes is the average trip, with 24% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 14% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Noyan work?
11% work in Noyan itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu (70), then Lacolle (65).
How many jobs are there in Noyan?
Statistics Canada counted 40 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Noyan?
The 2021 census found 6.5% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Montérégie economic region, is 4.3% (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).