Photo: Veillg1 · CC BY-SA 4.0More of Rigaud’s 15-to-64s are in work than in 64% of Canadian towns
7.5% of the labour force in Rigaud was out of work at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. For 9.6% of commuters in Rigaud, the trip to work lasts an hour or more; the average is 32.2 minutes. Half the households in Rigaud had more than $79,800 in 2020, before tax, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
Work in Rigaud: the figures worth knowing
Work near the middle
Counting everyone 15 and over, 60% were in work at the 2021 census; among those aged 15 to 64 it was 78%, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 32.2 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 9.6% 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.
Rigaud earns C for jobs and income
Better than 33% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #346 of 507 in Quebec.
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.
How long the commute from Rigaud takes
Trips under 15 minutes: 23%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 29.2 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.
The daily tide in Rigaud runs outward
About 2 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. Of those who commute, 29% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
71% of Rigaud’s residents in work leave it to work; Vaudreuil-Dorion takes the most
Saint-Lazare sends the largest group the other way, 225 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
In Rigaud, 78% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
None of the 12 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges census division has 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. Counting those looking for work too, 65% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 60% were working. 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.
How Rigaud’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 55% of Canadian towns.
Set beside Quebec’s towns, where the median is $74,100, Rigaud sits 8% above. 10 of the 12 other places of 2,500+ in the Vaudreuil-Soulanges census division have a higher median. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Without a car, 4.5% of Rigaud’s commuters get to work
Few ride transit: 0.7%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Home was the workplace for 19%, under the 21% 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 Vaudreuil-Soulanges census division, 40% more people receive EI than in 2019
The highest month was January 2021: 7,880 people, 4.1 times the 2019 level. Roughly 2.8 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 5%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: one figure for all of the Vaudreuil-Soulanges census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Everyday places on foot in Rigaud: B−
Better than 51% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #370 of 507 in Quebec.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Rigaud is 506th of 695 Canadian towns of 5,700 to 11,100 people for 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 14 | Boischatel Quebec | 9,250 | 85% | 4.8% | $118K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 16 | Chibougamau Quebec | 7,273 | 82% | 3.7% | $85K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 19 | Shannon Quebec | 7,088 | 81% | 3.7% | $113K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 504 | Woodbine-Lumsden Ontario | 7,928 | 73% | 12% | $99K | C |
| 505 | Kings County, Subdivision C Nova Scotia | 8,994 | 70% | 10% | $65K | C |
| 506 | Rigaud Quebec | 8,187 | 78% | 7.5% | $80K | C |
| 507 | Lakelands Village Ontario | 9,636 | 68% | 12% | $119K | C |
| 508 | La Sarre Quebec | 7,199 | 75% | 6% | $60K | C |
| … | ||||||
| 695 | Beasley Ontario | 6,338 | 49% | 17% | $47K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Rigaud, and others among Quebec’s towns.
Work in the places around Rigaud
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Rigaud | 78% | 7.5% | $80K | 32.2 min | C | B− |
| Très-Saint-Rédempteur 6.4 km | 83% | 4.4% | $87K | 37.1 min | B− | D− |
| Saint-Placide 8.8 km | 72% | 7.9% | $74K | 36 min | D | B |
| Sainte-Marthe 9.2 km | 95% | 4.6% | $85K | 29.2 min | B+ | D |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil 10.5 km | 81% | 5.5% | $70K | 29.6 min | C+ | C |
| Hudson 12.1 km | 84% | 7.7% | $101K | 31.1 min | A− | B+ |
| Kanesatake 14.5 km | — | — | — | — | — | — |
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 Rigaud, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- 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. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- 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. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- Household income. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- 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 Rigaud
How long is the commute from Rigaud?
On average 32.2 minutes; 23% take under 15 minutes and 9.6% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Rigaud work?
Only 29% work in Rigaud itself; the rest go first to Vaudreuil-Dorion (385) and Montréal (275).
How many jobs are there in Rigaud?
About 1,820 people had their usual place of work in Rigaud at the 2021 census, 0.7 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 244 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Rigaud?
At the 2021 census 7.5% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Montérégie economic region, gives 4.3% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Rigaud?
The median household in Rigaud had $79,800 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Rigaud get to work?
94% of commuters go by car, 0.7% take public transit, 3.1% walk and 0.7% cycle. On census day 19% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
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).