Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Households in Saint-Ubalde earn less than those in 96% of Canadian towns
Jobs were held by 75% of people aged 15 to 64 in Saint-Ubalde in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Getting to work from Saint-Ubalde takes 20.3 minutes on average, an hour or more for 4.5%. The 2021 census put unemployment in Saint-Ubalde at 9.8%, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
What sets Saint-Ubalde apart on jobs and income
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $55,000 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 20.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 4.5% 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.
On jobs and income, Saint-Ubalde grades C
Better than 32% 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.
What households earned in Saint-Ubalde: $55,000 in 2020
Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Saint-Ubalde’s median is 26% below. Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Portneuf census division has a higher median. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Time on the road to work from Saint-Ubalde
In the middle of Quebec’s towns, the average commute is 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 56%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 16.5 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.
The daily tide in Saint-Ubalde runs outward
56% 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.
44% of Saint-Ubalde’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Marc-des-Carrières takes the most
- Saint-Casimir30
- Lac-aux-Sables30
- Saint-Alban15
- Notre-Dame-de-Montauban15
- Québec10
- Cap-Santé10
- Sainte-Thècle10
- Sainte-Anne-de-la-Pérade10
- Saint-Marc-des-Carrières40
- Québec20
- Deschambault-Grondines15
- Saint-Casimir15
- Saint-Augustin-de-Desmaures10
- Saint-Raymond10
- Notre-Dame-de-Montauban10
- Lac-aux-Sables10
- Saint-Tite10
- Montréal10
Saint-Casimir sends the largest group the other way, 30 people.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Saint-Ubalde has a job
None of the 8 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Portneuf census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 44% were working. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 62% in October 2026. Counting those looking for work too, 48% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. The figures are a snapshot of 11 May 2021, when pandemic rules still kept many people out of work or at 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.
14% of commuters from Saint-Ubalde go without a car
Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. 85% drive to work, fewer than the 90% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Working at home: 21%, close to 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).
In the Portneuf census division, 29% more people receive EI than in 2019
January 2021 was the busiest month, with 3,450 people on EI, 3.1 times 2019’s average. Roughly 3.9 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. In the twelve months to August 2026 the number fell by 2%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries published for the Portneuf census division, not by town. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Saint-Ubalde earns B for walkability
Better than 55% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Work in the places around Saint-Ubalde
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Saint-Ubalde | 75% | 9.8% | $55K | 20.3 min | C | B |
| Saint-Alban 11 km | 79% | 8.5% | $61K | 23.1 min | C+ | C |
| Saint-Casimir 14 km | 80% | 4.5% | $55K | 24.4 min | C | C+ |
| Lac-aux-Sables 17.2 km | 71% | 13% | $58K | 26.8 min | D | C |
| Saint-Marc-des-Carrières 18 km | 76% | 7.3% | $60K | 21.3 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-Ubalde, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- Employment Insurance. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- The Labour Force Survey. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- Unemployment. The census-week jobless rate for residents 15 and over. Its base is the labour force, those employed plus those actively looking.
- 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. 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.
- 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-Ubalde
What is the average household income in Saint-Ubalde?
The median household in Saint-Ubalde had $55,000 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Saint-Ubalde get to work?
Driving takes 85% of commuters to work, 14% walk, and on census day 21% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Saint-Ubalde?
About 20.3 minutes on average, with 56% under a quarter-hour and 4.5% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Saint-Ubalde work?
Most stay: 56% work in Saint-Ubalde. The rest go first to Saint-Marc-des-Carrières (40) and Québec (20).
How many jobs are there in Saint-Ubalde?
Some 345 people worked in Saint-Ubalde at the 2021 census: 0.9 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 66 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Saint-Ubalde?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Capitale-Nationale economic region at 4.7%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 9.8%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
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).