Photo: Raphaël Joanisse-Clément · CC BY-SA 3.0A smaller share of people aged 15 to 64 are in work in Salluit than in 98% of Canadian towns
Getting to work from Salluit takes 9.3 minutes on average, an hour or more for 0%. In 2020, a household at the middle of Salluit had $88,800 before tax, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. When the 2021 census was taken, 13% of people in Salluit who wanted a job had none; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
What stands out about work in Salluit
Fewer people in work than most towns
In work at the 2021 census: 50% of people aged 15 to 64, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns, and 47% of everyone 15 and over. In work ↓
More unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 13% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 4.3% in June 2026. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 9.3 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 0% 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.
Salluit earns B for jobs and income
Better than 64% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, the share of 15-to-64s in work.
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.
50% of working-age people in Salluit have jobs
None of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Nord-du-Québec census division has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
In June 2026, 63% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 54%. 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.
The length of the trip to work in Salluit
The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 90% of commuters, against 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Timed exactly, the average is 6.5 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.
Salluit keeps its workforce on a working day
88% 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.
48 people come into Salluit to work, most from Mont-Saint-Michel and Stanstead
- Mont-Saint-Michel15
- Stanstead10
- Kangirsuk10
- Rivière-Koksoak (NO)15
- Rouyn-Noranda10
- Kangirsuk10
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
Earnings at home in Salluit: households
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 73% of Canadian towns.
Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Salluit’s median is 20% above. 4 of the 5 other places of 2,500+ in the Nord-du-Québec census division have 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).
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 25% of Salluit’s commuters
More people walk to work here than in the middle of Quebec’s towns: 23% against 4.2%. The car takes 56% of commuters here, under the 90% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 2.2% against 21%. Few ride transit: 2.2%, 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).
About as many people are on EI in the Nord-du-Québec census division as in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 10%. July 2021 was the busiest month, with 1,810 people on EI, 2.5 times 2019’s average. Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 2.5 receive EI.
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). Salluit shares its EI beneficiaries numbers with the rest of the Nord-du-Québec census division.
How walkable Salluit is: A−
Better than 84% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
What this data can and can’t tell you
What each figure measures for Salluit, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- 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. Half of households had more than this before tax in 2020, half less, counting every source of income. For a neighbourhood we estimate the median from the income brackets of its dissemination areas.
- 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. People receiving EI benefits each month, counted for the census division. It follows the local job market; it isn’t an unemployment rate.
- 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 Salluit
How do people in Salluit get to work?
56% of commuters drive, 2.2% take public transit and 23% walk; 2.2% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Salluit?
The average commute is 9.3 minutes; 90% of trips take under 15 minutes and 0% an hour or more.
Where do people in Salluit work?
88% work in Salluit itself; of those who leave, the most go to Rivière-Koksoak (NO) (15), then Rouyn-Noranda (10).
How many jobs are there in Salluit?
The 2021 census found about 400 people with their usual workplace in Salluit, or 1 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. In June 2026, 15 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Salluit?
The 2021 census found 13% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Côte-Nord and Nord-du-Québec economic region, is 4.3% (June 2026).
What is the average household income in Salluit?
Before tax, half the households in Salluit had more than $88,800 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
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).