Photo: Gordalmighty · CC BY-SA 3.0Household incomes in Saint-Pamphile trail those of 90% of Canadian towns
Workers in Saint-Pamphile spend 17.2 minutes on the way to work on average, and 6.9% need an hour or more. Of Saint-Pamphile’s residents aged 15 to 64, 80% were employed when the 2021 census was taken; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Joblessness at the 2021 census: 2.3% of Saint-Pamphile’s labour force, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Work in Saint-Pamphile: the figures worth knowing
More people in work than most towns
With 80% of its 15-to-64s in work in 2021, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, it has 55% of all adults employed. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
2.3% 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
Household income at the median was $58,900 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
A local job centre
1,235 people work in Saint-Pamphile and 895 residents commute to a fixed workplace; the middle of Canadian towns has 0.8 jobs per working resident. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 17.2 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 6.9% 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.
Jobs & income in Saint-Pamphile: graded B
Better than 63% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is trip times; 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-Pamphile, 80% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
A larger share in work than in 77% of Canadian towns.
Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 56% 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 55%. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 61% 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.
The median household in Saint-Pamphile had $58,900 in 2020
Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Saint-Pamphile’s median is 21% below. 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).
Each working day, Saint-Pamphile’s workforce swells by 36%
For every resident who leaves Saint-Pamphile for work, about 3 people come in. The job is inside the municipality for 76% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
The length of the trip to work in Saint-Pamphile
In the middle of Quebec’s towns, the average commute is 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 74%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 15 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.
552 people come into Saint-Pamphile to work, most from Sainte-Perpétue and Saint-Adalbert
- Sainte-Perpétue190
- Saint-Adalbert80
- Sainte-Félicité60
- Saint-Omer40
- Saint-Marcel30
- Tourville30
- Saint-Jean-Port-Joli20
- Saint-Cyrille-de-Lessard15
- Saint-Fabien-de-Panet15
- Montmagny15
- Montmagny35
- Sainte-Perpétue30
- Saint-Jean-Port-Joli30
- L'Islet15
- Lévis15
- Saint-Omer10
- Saint-Marcel10
- Saint-Aubert10
- Saint-Lazare-de-Bellechasse10
- Québec10
Of everyone working in Saint-Pamphile, 45% come in from elsewhere; 190 make the 15 km trip from Sainte-Perpétue. The main destination the other way is Montmagny, with 35.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Without a car, 11% of Saint-Pamphile’s commuters get to work
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 4.2% against 21%. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, 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).
23% more people are on EI in the L'Islet census division than in 2019
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%. The count topped out in January 2021 at 950 people, 2.5 times the 2019 average. Roughly 3.8 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: the L'Islet census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
On getting around on foot, Saint-Pamphile grades B+
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in and around Saint-Pamphile
No closer places have figures: these lie 15–47 km from Saint-Pamphile.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Pamphile | 80% | 2.3% | $59K | 17.2 min | B | B+ |
| Sainte-Perpétue 15.1 km | 70% | 9.4% | $60K | 23.3 min | C− | B |
| Saint-Aubert 38.3 km | 83% | 5.6% | $68K | 19.4 min | A− | C− |
| Saint-Jean-Port-Joli 45.6 km | 83% | 7.6% | $63K | 17.4 min | B+ | A |
| Saint-Fabien-de-Panet 46.3 km | 68% | 6.9% | $53K | 28.3 min | D− | B− |
| Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pocatière 47 km | 77% | 6.9% | $79K | 14.4 min | A | D |
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-Pamphile, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Employment Insurance. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Sampled each month and released for regions rather than towns, so its rate describes the area around 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.
- 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.
- Household income. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- Trip times. How long getting to work normally takes, averaged from the census’s time bands at their middles; expect it to read slightly high against the timed figure.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- 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-Pamphile
How many jobs are there in Saint-Pamphile?
The 2021 census counted about 1,235 people working in Saint-Pamphile: 1.4 jobs for every resident who commutes to a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 104 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Pamphile?
The census put unemployment at 2.3% in May 2021, where the middle of Canadian towns was 9.9%. More recently, in October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had the Chaudière-Appalaches economic region at 2.3%.
What is the average household income in Saint-Pamphile?
Before tax, half the households in Saint-Pamphile had more than $58,900 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Saint-Pamphile get to work?
By car: 87% of commuters, 11% walk; on census day 4.2% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Saint-Pamphile?
17.2 minutes is the average trip, with 74% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 6.9% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Saint-Pamphile work?
Most stay: 76% work in Saint-Pamphile. The rest go first to Montmagny (35) and Sainte-Perpétue (30).
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).