Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0With 0.3 jobs for each resident in work, most of Saint-Aubert commutes out
Median household income in Saint-Aubert was $67,900 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. When the 2021 census was taken, 5.6% of people in Saint-Aubert who wanted a job had none, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns. An hour or more each way is the commute for 2.6% of workers in Saint-Aubert; the average is 19.4 minutes.
What sets Saint-Aubert apart on jobs and income
More people in work than most towns
In work at the 2021 census: 83% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 57% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 5.6% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 2.3% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $67,900 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 19.4 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 2.6% 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.
Saint-Aubert grades A− for jobs and income
Better than 81% 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 Saint-Aubert, 83% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
A larger share in work than in 89% of Canadian towns.
The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 60%. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 57% of residents 15 and over were in work. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 61% in October 2026. 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 Saint-Aubert’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 71% of Canadian towns.
Saint-Aubert’s median is 8% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
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-Aubert
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 51%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 16.3 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.
The daily tide in Saint-Aubert runs outward
About 5 residents leave for work for each person who comes 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.
85% of Saint-Aubert’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Jean-Port-Joli takes the most
- Saint-Jean-Port-Joli35
- Saint-Damase-de-L'Islet15
- Saint-Pamphile10
- Sainte-Perpétue10
- L'Islet10
- Saint-Jean-Port-Joli205
- Montmagny70
- L'Islet55
- La Pocatière20
- Cap-Saint-Ignace20
- Saint-Pascal15
- Saint-Adalbert10
- Québec10
- Lévis10
- Kuujjuaq10
Saint-Jean-Port-Joli sends the largest group the other way, 35 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Walking, cycling or transit: 3.4% of Saint-Aubert’s commuters
Nearly everyone drives: 91% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 15% against 21%. 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).
In the L'Islet census division, 23% more people receive EI than in 2019
The highest month was January 2021: 950 people, 2.5 times the 2019 level. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 3.8 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%.
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). Saint-Aubert doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the L'Islet census division.
The Walkability grade for Saint-Aubert: C−
Better than 16% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Saint-Aubert
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Aubert | 83% | 5.6% | $68K | 19.4 min | A− | C− |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli 7.4 km | 83% | 7.6% | $63K | 17.4 min | B+ | A |
| L'Islet 15.1 km | 78% | 6.2% | $65K | 19 min | B | 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 Saint-Aubert, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- Trip times. One way, on a usual day, from the census’s travel-time bands. Band midpoints overstate it a little next to the figure Statistics Canada times.
- Where people commute. Counts of workers with a fixed workplace, by where they live and where they work, both taken as whole municipalities; the jobs figure takes everyone who works here, wherever home is.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Saint-Aubert
What is the average household income in Saint-Aubert?
The median household in Saint-Aubert had $67,900 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Saint-Aubert get to work?
91% of commuters drive, 3.4% walk; 15% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Saint-Aubert?
The average commute is 19.4 minutes; 51% of trips take under 15 minutes and 2.6% an hour or more.
Where do people in Saint-Aubert work?
Only 16% work in Saint-Aubert itself; the rest go first to Saint-Jean-Port-Joli (205) and Montmagny (70).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Aubert?
The 2021 census found about 160 people with their usual workplace in Saint-Aubert, or 0.3 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 37 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Aubert?
At the 2021 census 5.6% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Chaudière-Appalaches economic region, gives 2.3% in 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).