Photo: P199 · CC BY-SA 4.0Saint-Anicet has 0.4 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
The 2021 census found 75% of working-age people in Saint-Anicet employed, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Before tax, the typical household in Saint-Anicet brought in $66,200 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. Commutes from Saint-Anicet average 33.1 minutes, and 14% take an hour or more.
Work in Saint-Anicet: the figures worth knowing
Lower incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $66,200 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 33.1 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Saint-Anicet: D
Better than 11% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #437 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.
What households in Saint-Anicet earn
No other place of 2,500 or more in the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent census division has a higher median. Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Saint-Anicet’s median is 11% below. Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for that year.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Commuting times in Saint-Anicet
Only 25% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 31 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.
Each working day, more people leave Saint-Anicet for work than come in
For every person who comes in to work, about 5 residents travel out. Of those who commute, 23% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
77% of Saint-Anicet’s residents in work leave it to work; Salaberry-de-Valleyfield takes the most
Inbound, the leader is Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (25).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Work and the working-age population of Saint-Anicet
Of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent census division, one has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Counting those looking for work too, 54% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 49%. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 62% in work in October 2026. 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.
Leaving the car at home: 6% of commuters in Saint-Anicet
The car is the way to work for 94% of commuters. Home was the workplace for 17%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. Few ride transit: 1%, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
EI claims in the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent census division run 33% above their 2019 level
The count topped out in January 2021 at 1,430 people, 3 times the 2019 average. That works out to around 4.8 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 2%.
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). Nobody publishes EI beneficiaries for Saint-Anicet alone, so this card uses the figure for the Le Haut-Saint-Laurent census division.
Saint-Anicet grades B− for walkability
Better than 47% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #384 of 507 in Quebec.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Ranked on jobs and income, Saint-Anicet is 486th among 553 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 3,900
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 78% | 4.2% | $112K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 89% | 4.1% | $103K | A+ |
| 11 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska Quebec | 3,307 | 85% | 4.8% | $91K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 484 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints Quebec | 2,841 | 65% | 9% | $58K | D |
| 485 | Stoney Creek Ontario | 3,828 | 69% | 11% | $63K | D |
| 486 | Saint-Anicet Quebec | 2,854 | 75% | 8.3% | $66K | D |
| 487 | Central Okanagan West British Columbia | 3,298 | 64% | 12% | $85K | D |
| 488 | Overlanders Alberta | 2,879 | 57% | 14% | $74K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 553 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Saint-Anicet, and others among Quebec’s towns.
Jobs near Saint-Anicet: the places around it
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Anicet | 75% | 8.3% | $66K | 33.1 min | D | B− |
| Rivière-Beaudette 11.8 km | 80% | 4.1% | $88K | 31.2 min | B | C− |
| Sainte-Barbe 12 km | 76% | 5.5% | $79K | 31.7 min | C | D |
| Godmanchester 14.1 km | 78% | 7.6% | $64K | 26.6 min | C | C− |
| Saint-Zotique 15.2 km | 83% | 5% | $87K | 28.5 min | B+ | C |
| Huntingdon 16.5 km | 64% | 9.6% | $50K | 25.5 min | D | A+ |
| South Glengarry 17.5 km | 79% | 8.6% | $91K | 25.8 min | A− | 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 Saint-Anicet, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; 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. 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.
- 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 Saint-Anicet
What is the average household income in Saint-Anicet?
Saint-Anicet’s middle household had $66,200 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Saint-Anicet get to work?
94% of commuters go by car, 1% take public transit and 5% walk. On census day 17% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Saint-Anicet?
On average 33.1 minutes; 25% take under 15 minutes and 14% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Saint-Anicet work?
23% work in Saint-Anicet itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Salaberry-de-Valleyfield (185), then Huntingdon (95).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Anicet?
About 305 people had their usual place of work in Saint-Anicet at the 2021 census, 0.4 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 87 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Anicet?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Montérégie economic region at 4.3%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 8.3%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).