Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.4 jobs for each resident in work, most of Ripon commutes out
The median household in Ripon had $70,700 before tax in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. Joblessness at the 2021 census: 8.2% of Ripon’s labour force, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work from Ripon takes 31 minutes on average, an hour or more for 15%.
Jobs and income in Ripon: what the figures say
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $70,700 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 31 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 15% 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.
On jobs and income, Ripon grades D
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 Ripon’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 65% of Canadian towns.
The middle of Quebec’s towns is $74,100, and Ripon is 5% below it. Because 2020 was the first year of the pandemic, emergency benefits make up 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).
31 minutes from Ripon to work, over the middle of Canadian towns
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 29%, fewer than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 30.3 minutes (Statistics Canada).
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.
Ripon is quieter on a working day than at night
Each person commuting in is matched by about 4 residents going out. 20% 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.
80% of Ripon’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-André-Avellin takes the most
- Saint-André-Avellin30
- Papineauville15
- Montpellier15
- Saint-Sixte10
- Chénéville10
- Gatineau10
- Saint-André-Avellin110
- Gatineau110
- Papineauville45
- Montebello30
- Chénéville25
- Thurso20
- Montpellier15
- Montréal10
- Saint-Sixte10
- L'Ange-Gardien10
In the other direction the biggest source is Saint-André-Avellin, with 30.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
73% of working-age people in Ripon have jobs
A smaller share in work than in 59% of Canadian towns.
Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 49%. In October 2026, 58% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. 54% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. 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.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 6.5% of Ripon’s commuters
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 92% of commuters go by car, truck or van.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
40% more people are on EI in the Papineau census division than in 2019
At its peak, in January 2021, 1,600 people were on EI, 3 times the 2019 average. That is about 4.2 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose 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 Papineau 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).
Ripon on foot: a B grade
Better than 57% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How the places next to Ripon compare on work
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ripon | 73% | 8.2% | $71K | 31 min | D | B |
| Saint-André-Avellin 7.2 km | 69% | 12% | $63K | 26.8 min | D | B |
| Montpellier 10 km | 60% | 19% | $54K | 36.3 min | D− | D− |
| Lac-Simon 14.1 km | 61% | 11% | $72K | 36.8 min | D− | D− |
| Plaisance 18 km | 73% | 9.9% | $69K | 32.5 min | D | C |
| Papineauville 18.4 km | 77% | 9.3% | $65K | 26.2 min | C | B |
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 Ripon, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Monthly, and only for metro areas and economic regions. It is the up-to-date rate we set beside the census’s 2021 snapshot.
- 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. It counts only people who wanted work and had none in May 2021, as a share of those working or searching; students and retirees who weren’t looking stay out of both sides.
- Household income. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- Trip times. Our average assumes everyone in, say, the 15-to-29-minute band takes 22 minutes. Across all the bands that runs a shade above Statistics Canada’s measured 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.
- 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 Ripon
How many jobs are there in Ripon?
About 195 people had their usual place of work in Ripon at the 2021 census, 0.4 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 46 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Ripon?
At the 2021 census 8.2% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Outaouais economic region, gives 6.4% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Ripon?
The census puts Ripon at $70,700 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Ripon get to work?
92% of commuters go by car, 6.5% walk. On census day 15% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Ripon?
On average 31 minutes; 29% take under 15 minutes and 15% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Ripon work?
20% work in Ripon itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saint-André-Avellin (110), then Gatineau (110).
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).