Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Working-age people in Saint-Benoît-Labre are more likely to have a job than in 97% of Canadian towns
Median household income in Saint-Benoît-Labre was $70,500 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. The census counted 535 people working in Saint-Benoît-Labre and 670 residents commuting to a fixed workplace. Saint-Benoît-Labre had an unemployment rate of 6.2% at the 2021 census; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
Saint-Benoît-Labre at work: what stands out
More people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 88% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 68%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
6.2% of the labour force was out of work at the 2021 census (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns); the Labour Force Survey had the area at 2.3% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $70,500 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 20.7 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 3.8% 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, Saint-Benoît-Labre grades A
Better than 86% 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.
Saint-Benoît-Labre at work: 88% of people aged 15 to 64
All 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Beauce-Sartigan census division have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
73% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 68%: many residents are past working age. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 61% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. 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.
Household income in Saint-Benoît-Labre
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 65% of Canadian towns.
Saint-Benoît-Labre’s median is 5% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). One of the 4 other places of 2,500+ in the Beauce-Sartigan census division has a higher median. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
A shorter commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 20.7 minutes from Saint-Benoît-Labre
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 18.6 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 35% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. An hour or more: 3.8% of commuters, under the 5.3% 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.
More go out than come in: the working day in Saint-Benoît-Labre
26% 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.
74% of Saint-Benoît-Labre’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Georges takes the most
- Saint-Georges300
- Beauceville45
- Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce45
- Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley25
- La Guadeloupe15
- Saint-Victor10
- Saint-Frédéric10
- Saint-Évariste-de-Forsyth10
- Saint-Martin10
- Saint-Côme--Linière10
Coming the other way, Saint-Georges sends the most (185).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Leaving the car at home: 3.8% of commuters in Saint-Benoît-Labre
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 95% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 11% against 21%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
EI claims in the Beauce-Sartigan census division run 22% above their 2019 level
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 15%. At its peak, in January 2021, 2,900 people were on EI, 3.3 times the 2019 average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.4 receive EI.
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-Benoît-Labre doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Beauce-Sartigan census division.
Saint-Benoît-Labre grades C− for walkability
Better than 19% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Around Saint-Benoît-Labre: jobs, pay and the commute
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Benoît-Labre | 88% | 6.2% | $71K | 20.7 min | A | C− |
| Saint-Georges 10.2 km | 80% | 5.6% | $64K | 18.1 min | B+ | B− |
| Saint-Honoré-de-Shenley 11.2 km | 89% | 5.6% | $71K | 22.2 min | A− | B− |
| Saint-Victor 13 km | 89% | 4.2% | $68K | 21.2 min | A− | B+ |
| Saint-René 13.4 km | 78% | 7.6% | $95K | 25.8 min | B+ | C− |
| Saint-Éphrem-de-Beauce 13.5 km | 85% | 4.2% | $71K | 19.6 min | A | B+ |
| Notre-Dame-des-Pins 13.8 km | 87% | 7.4% | $80K | 18.4 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-Benoît-Labre, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Unemployment. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- Household income. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- 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.
- 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. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- 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.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
Questions about work in Saint-Benoît-Labre
Where do people in Saint-Benoît-Labre work?
26% work in Saint-Benoît-Labre itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saint-Georges (300), then Beauceville (45).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Benoît-Labre?
Some 535 people worked in Saint-Benoît-Labre at the 2021 census: 0.8 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 75 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Benoît-Labre?
The 2021 census found 6.2% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Chaudière-Appalaches economic region, is 2.3% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Saint-Benoît-Labre?
Before tax, half the households in Saint-Benoît-Labre had more than $70,500 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Saint-Benoît-Labre get to work?
Driving takes 95% of commuters to work, 3.8% walk, and on census day 11% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Saint-Benoît-Labre?
About 20.7 minutes on average, with 35% under a quarter-hour and 3.8% at an hour or longer.
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).