Photo: Laceoflight Louis-Philippe Rousselle-Brosseau · CC BY-SA 3.0Working-age people in Saint-Placide are less likely to have a job than in 65% of Canadian towns
Of everyone in Saint-Placide working or looking for work in May 2021, 7.9% were unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The average trip to work from Saint-Placide is 36 minutes; 17% of commuters spend an hour or more getting there. In 2020, a household at the middle of Saint-Placide had $73,600 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900.
Where Saint-Placide stands out on work
Work near the middle
In work at the 2021 census: 72% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 56% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 36 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 17% 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.
Jobs and income in Saint-Placide earn D
Better than 11% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, trip times.
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.
36 minutes from Saint-Placide to work, over the middle of Canadian towns
Timed exactly, the average is 33.3 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Only 20% 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
More of Saint-Placide’s workers leave each day than arrive
475 residents of Saint-Placide had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 300 people had theirs in Saint-Placide, wherever they lived.
It sends out some 2 workers for every one it takes in.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
83% of Saint-Placide’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Eustache takes the most
Of those coming in, Mirabel supplies the most: 40.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
2021 Census, people with a usual place of work: where residents of Saint-Placide work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
In Saint-Placide, 72% of the working-age population has a job
None of the 6 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Deux-Montagnes census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 62% in work in October 2026. 61% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Counting retirees, 56% of everyone aged 15 and over was working. 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.
Household income in Saint-Placide
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 57% of Canadian towns.
Saint-Placide’s median is 1% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Deux-Montagnes census division has a higher median. 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).
Saint-Placide gets to work without a car for 6.8% of commuters
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 93% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 19% against 21%.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
EI claims in the Deux-Montagnes census division run 39% above their 2019 level
The highest month was January 2021: 6,100 people, 3.9 times the 2019 level. That works out to around 3.7 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 1%.
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). Nobody publishes EI beneficiaries for Saint-Placide alone, so this card uses the figure for the Deux-Montagnes census division.
Walkability in Saint-Placide: graded B
Better than 62% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Saint-Placide, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Placide | 72% | 7.9% | $74K | 36 min | D | B |
| Rigaud 8.8 km | 78% | 7.5% | $80K | 32.2 min | C | B− |
| Kanesatake 9 km | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Hudson 9.2 km | 84% | 7.7% | $101K | 31.1 min | A− | B+ |
| Saint-André-d'Argenteuil 11.6 km | 81% | 5.5% | $70K | 29.6 min | C+ | C |
| Oka 12.3 km | 80% | 6.7% | $86K | 30.9 min | B− | B |
| Saint-Lazare 14.8 km | 81% | 6.1% | $123K | 31 min | A− | 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-Placide, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- In work. People in work of any age over residents aged 15 to 64 (2021 Census). The census doesn’t cross work with age below the municipality, so this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood has; retirees don’t weigh on it.
- 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. 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. 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. Jobs count everyone whose usual workplace lies in the municipality, residents or commuters from elsewhere, from Statistics Canada’s home-by-workplace table.
- 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. Statistics Canada surveys households every month; the results come out for metro areas and economic regions, never for single towns, and keep the rate current after 2021.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
Questions about work in Saint-Placide
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Placide?
At the 2021 census 7.9% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Montréal metro area, gives 6.9% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Saint-Placide?
Saint-Placide’s middle household had $73,600 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at their middle.
How do people in Saint-Placide get to work?
93% of commuters drive, 4.5% walk and 2.3% cycle; 19% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Saint-Placide?
The average commute is 36 minutes; 20% of trips take under 15 minutes and 17% an hour or more.
Where do people in Saint-Placide work?
17% work in Saint-Placide itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saint-Eustache (65), then Mirabel (60).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Placide?
The 2021 census found about 300 people with their usual workplace in Saint-Placide, or 0.6 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 63 businesses with employees in June 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).