Photo: Félix Mathieu-Bégin · CC BY-SA 4.0Trécesson has 0.2 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Jobs were held by 78% of people aged 15 to 64 in Trécesson in 2021, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 73%. Before tax, the typical household in Trécesson brought in $92,500 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns. Out of work in May 2021: 8.5% of Trécesson’s labour force; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%.
Jobs and income in Trécesson: what the figures say
More people in work than most towns
The 2021 census found 78% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 59%. In work ↓
Unemployment near the middle
Unemployment was 8.5% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 2.5% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
Trécesson grades A− for jobs and income
Better than 77% 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.
Work and the working-age population of Trécesson
A larger share in work than in 68% of Canadian towns.
By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 60% of the wider area’s adults in work. 64% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 59%. 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.
Trécesson is quieter on a working day than at night
425 residents of Trécesson had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 95 people had theirs in Trécesson, wherever they lived.
It sends out some 5 workers for every one it takes in. 3.3% 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.
97% of Trécesson’s residents in work leave it to work; Amos takes the most
Coming the other way, Amos sends the most (50).
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 Trécesson work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Earnings at home in Trécesson: households
Against the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100), Trécesson’s median is 25% above. These are 2020 incomes, before tax, and they include pandemic benefits such as CERB, which lifted many lower incomes 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).
Without a car, 1.8% of Trécesson’s commuters get to work
Nearly everyone drives: 96% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 6.7% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% 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).
How residents who commute got to work, 2021 Census; working at home is counted apart.
Close to the middle of Canadian towns: commutes from Trécesson average 25.3 minutes
Trips under 15 minutes: 36%, more than the 31% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. An hour or more: 11% of commuters, above the 5.3% in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 24 minutes. The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
EI claims in the Abitibi census division run 5% above their 2019 level
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 4.3 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 4%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 1,490 people on EI, 2.4 times 2019’s average.
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). For EI beneficiaries, the only official count covers all of the Abitibi census division, Trécesson included.
The Walkability grade for Trécesson: D
Better than 7% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Around Trécesson: jobs, pay and the commute
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Trécesson | 78% | 8.5% | $93K | 25.3 min | A− | D |
| Amos 11.6 km | 80% | 6.1% | $71K | 17 min | A− | A |
| Saint-Félix-de-Dalquier 14.9 km | 80% | 5.5% | $91K | 21.6 min | A | C− |
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 Trécesson, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Where people commute. Statistics Canada’s place-of-work table counts people with a usual place of work by the municipality they live in and the one they work in. Jobs here are people whose usual workplace is in the municipality, wherever they live.
- Employment Insurance. Monthly EI recipients across the census division: a pulse of the local job market rather than a measure of who is out of work.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- In work. Why 15 to 64? Otherwise retirees would pull the rate down in older towns. The census can’t say how old a neighbourhood’s workers are, so the count of people in work takes every age.
- 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. The census median total income of households in 2020, before tax; a neighbourhood’s is estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups.
- 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.
- 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 Trécesson
How do people in Trécesson get to work?
Driving takes 96% of commuters to work, 1.8% walk, and on census day 6.7% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Trécesson?
About 25.3 minutes on average, with 36% under a quarter-hour and 11% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Trécesson work?
Only 3.3% work in Trécesson itself; the rest go first to Amos (325) and Val-d'Or (15).
How many jobs are there in Trécesson?
In June 2026, 34 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Trécesson?
The 2021 census found 8.5% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Abitibi-Témiscamingue economic region, is 2.5% (October 2026).
What is the average household income in Trécesson?
Before tax, half the households in Trécesson had more than $92,500 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).