Photo: Simon Villeneuve · CC BY-SA 3.0Saint-Cuthbert has lower household incomes than 84% of Canadian towns
For 11% of commuters in Saint-Cuthbert, the trip to work lasts an hour or more; the average is 29 minutes. Of Saint-Cuthbert’s residents aged 15 to 64, 76% were employed when the 2021 census was taken; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Saint-Cuthbert had an unemployment rate of 6% at the 2021 census, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
What Saint-Cuthbert’s work numbers say
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 6% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 2.9% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $62,100 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
Commutes take 29 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 11% 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.
The Jobs & income grade for Saint-Cuthbert: C−
Better than 16% 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.
How many in Saint-Cuthbert have a job: 76% of 15-to-64s
Of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the D'Autray census division, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
56% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 53%. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 60% of the wider area’s adults in work. May 2021, when the census was taken, was a pandemic spring; unemployment has come down since, as the Labour Force Survey records.
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.
Half the households in Saint-Cuthbert had more than $62,100 in 2020
2 of the 6 other places of 2,500+ in the D'Autray census division have a higher median. That puts Saint-Cuthbert 16% below the median of Quebec’s towns, $74,100. 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).
A longer commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 29 minutes from Saint-Cuthbert
Trips under 15 minutes: 31%, close to the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 26.8 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.
More of Saint-Cuthbert’s workers leave each day than arrive
23% 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.
78% of Saint-Cuthbert’s residents in work leave it to work; Berthierville takes the most
Montréal sends the largest group the other way, 80 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 5.3% of Saint-Cuthbert’s commuters
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 94% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 12% 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 D'Autray census division run 41% above their 2019 level
At its peak, in January 2021, 2,990 people were on EI, 3.1 times the 2019 average. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4.6 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, 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). Saint-Cuthbert doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the D'Autray census division.
Walkability in Saint-Cuthbert: graded C
Better than 31% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work next door to Saint-Cuthbert
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Cuthbert | 76% | 6% | $62K | 29 min | C− | C |
| Saint-Norbert 6.8 km | 71% | 8.7% | $69K | 30 min | D | B |
| Saint-Barthélemy 9 km | 78% | 6.7% | $61K | 31.2 min | D | C+ |
| Sainte-Geneviève-de-Berthier 9.8 km | 80% | 4.6% | $74K | 24.8 min | B | C− |
| Berthierville 10.9 km | 80% | 4.4% | $50K | 22 min | C+ | A+ |
| Sainte-Élisabeth 11.2 km | 87% | 5% | $72K | 27.1 min | B | D− |
| Saint-Félix-de-Valois 14 km | 78% | 4.8% | $67K | 24.8 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 Saint-Cuthbert, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. Unemployed people over the labour force (in work or looking), aged 15 and over, on census day.
- 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. 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. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- Which towns we compare. Comparisons are with the median of Canadian towns and city neighbourhoods counting 2,500 people or more, reserves and entire cities excluded.
Questions about work in Saint-Cuthbert
How do people in Saint-Cuthbert get to work?
94% of commuters go by car, 5.3% walk. On census day 12% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Saint-Cuthbert?
On average 29 minutes; 31% take under 15 minutes and 11% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Saint-Cuthbert work?
Only 23% work in Saint-Cuthbert itself; the rest go first to Berthierville (150) and Joliette (100).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Cuthbert?
About 465 people had their usual place of work in Saint-Cuthbert at the 2021 census, 0.8 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 63 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Cuthbert?
At the 2021 census 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 Lanaudière economic region, gives 2.9% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Saint-Cuthbert?
Before tax, half the households in Saint-Cuthbert had more than $62,100 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
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).