Photo: Veillg1 · CC0Sainte-Thècle has lower household incomes than 98% of Canadian towns
Unemployment in Sainte-Thècle stood at 7.5% on census day 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. The census counted 470 people working in Sainte-Thècle and 640 residents commuting to a fixed workplace. Sainte-Thècle counted 70% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%.
The short version on work in Sainte-Thècle
Lower incomes than most towns
The middle of Canadian towns is $85,900, and the median household here had $50,800 before tax in 2020. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 21.9 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 5.9% 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.
Sainte-Thècle earns C− for jobs and income
Better than 16% 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.
The median household in Sainte-Thècle had $50,800 in 2020
The middle of Quebec’s towns is $74,100, and Sainte-Thècle is 31% below it. Pandemic support paid in 2020, CERB first among it, is 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).
At 21.9 minutes, commutes from Sainte-Thècle are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 48%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Long trips, an hour or more, are about as common as in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 5.9%. Timed exactly, the average is 22 minutes (Statistics Canada).
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 workers leave Sainte-Thècle each day than arrive
Each person commuting in is matched by about 2 residents going out.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
65% of Sainte-Thècle’s residents in work leave it to work; Saint-Tite takes the most
- Saint-Tite55
- Lac-aux-Sables35
- Saint-Séverin35
- Shawinigan35
- Saint-Adelphe30
- Notre-Dame-de-Montauban20
- Trois-Rivières15
- Hérouxville10
- Saint-Tite175
- Shawinigan130
- Lac-aux-Sables20
- Trois-Rivières20
- Saint-Ubalde10
- Saint-Adelphe10
- Saint-Séverin10
- Saint-Narcisse10
- La Tuque10
- Fermont10
Inbound, the leader is Saint-Tite (55).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Who in Sainte-Thècle has a job
A smaller share in work than in 74% of Canadian towns.
Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 46%. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 42%. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 55% in work in October 2026. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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.
7.2% of commuters in Sainte-Thècle walk, cycle or take transit
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. The car takes 88% of commuters here, under the 90% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Home was the workplace for 11%, under the 21% 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).
In the Mékinac census division, 25% more people receive EI than in 2019
In January 2021 it reached 990, the most in the series and 2.5 times the 2019 average. For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 5 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 6%.
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). Sainte-Thècle doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from the Mékinac census division.
Getting around Sainte-Thècle on foot earns B
Better than 61% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Sainte-Thècle and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sainte-Thècle | 70% | 7.5% | $51K | 21.9 min | C− | B |
| Lac-aux-Sables 10.4 km | 71% | 13% | $58K | 26.8 min | D | C |
| Saint-Tite 11.1 km | 77% | 5.5% | $50K | 21.8 min | C | A− |
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 Sainte-Thècle, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t 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. 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.
- 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 Sainte-Thècle
Where do people in Sainte-Thècle work?
Only 35% work in Sainte-Thècle itself; the rest go first to Saint-Tite (175) and Shawinigan (130).
How many jobs are there in Sainte-Thècle?
About 470 people had their usual place of work in Sainte-Thècle at the 2021 census, 0.7 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 69 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Sainte-Thècle?
The 2021 census found 7.5% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Mauricie economic region, is 4.3% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Sainte-Thècle?
The census puts Sainte-Thècle at $50,800 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Sainte-Thècle get to work?
88% of commuters go by car, 7.2% walk. On census day 11% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
How long is the commute from Sainte-Thècle?
On average 21.9 minutes; 48% take under 15 minutes and 5.9% 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).