Photo: Dany Caron · CC BY-SA 3.0Most of Saint-Fulgence works elsewhere: the town has 0.4 jobs for each resident in work
The 2021 census found 77% of working-age people in Saint-Fulgence employed, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Joblessness at the 2021 census: 7% of Saint-Fulgence’s labour force, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Before tax, the typical household in Saint-Fulgence brought in $69,000 in 2020, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
What stands out about work in Saint-Fulgence
Less unemployment than most towns
7% 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 3.8% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $69,000 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Jobs and income in Saint-Fulgence earn C+
Better than 42% 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.
Who in Saint-Fulgence has a job
Of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord census division, one has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 59% of the wider area’s adults in work. Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 58% of residents 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 54%. The census was taken on 11 May 2021, mid-pandemic, when lockdowns had pushed unemployment up and sent many to work from home.
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.
Earnings at home in Saint-Fulgence: households
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 69% of Canadian towns.
Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord census division has a higher median. 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).
More workers leave Saint-Fulgence each day than arrive
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 Saint-Fulgence’s residents in work leave it to work; Saguenay takes the most
Saguenay sends the largest group the other way, 95 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: 5.4% of Saint-Fulgence’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: 11% 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).
Close to the middle of Canadian towns: commutes from Saint-Fulgence average 24.3 minutes
Long trips are rarer than in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 4.2% take an hour or more, against 5.3%. Timed exactly, the average is 22.4 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Only 25% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 31% 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.
In the Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord census division, 9% more people receive EI than in 2019
Roughly 4.1 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. The count topped out in January 2021 at 11,420 people, 2.9 times the 2019 average.
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). Behind EI beneficiaries sits data gathered across the Le Saguenay-et-son-Fjord census division, with Saint-Fulgence one part of it.
Saint-Fulgence on foot: a C grade
Better than 31% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How the places next to Saint-Fulgence compare on work
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Fulgence | 77% | 7% | $69K | 24.3 min | C+ | C |
| Saguenay 13.6 km | 78% | 5.5% | $69K | 18.1 min | B+ | B+ |
| Saint-Honoré 14.2 km | 79% | 4.9% | $90K | 24.6 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-Fulgence, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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. 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. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- Unemployment. The share of people 15 and over in the labour force, working or looking for work, who had no job on census day in May 2021.
- 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.
- 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-Fulgence
Where do people in Saint-Fulgence work?
20% work in Saint-Fulgence itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saguenay (475), then Saint-Honoré (15).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Fulgence?
About 255 people had their usual place of work in Saint-Fulgence at the 2021 census, 0.4 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 56 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Fulgence?
At the 2021 census 7% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Saguenay metro area, gives 3.8% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Saint-Fulgence?
The census puts Saint-Fulgence at $69,000 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Saint-Fulgence get to work?
91% of commuters go by car, 5.4% walk. On census day 11% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Saint-Fulgence?
On average 24.3 minutes; 25% take under 15 minutes and 4.2% take 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).