Photo: Richard Coté · CC BY-SA 4.0Household incomes in Weedon are lower than in 96% of Canadian towns
7.1% of the labour force in Weedon was out of work at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work from Weedon takes 29 minutes on average, an hour or more for 12%. Jobs were held by 76% of people aged 15 to 64 in Weedon in 2021, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Weedon’s work numbers say
Less unemployment than most towns
7.1% of the labour force was out of work at the 2021 census (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns); the Labour Force Survey had the area at 3.7% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
At $54,300 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 29 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 12% 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.
On jobs and income, Weedon grades D
Its strongest measure is the share of 15-to-64s in work; 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.
Who in Weedon has a job
Of the 3 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Le Haut-Saint-François census division, one has a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
53% of residents aged 15 and over were in the labour force, in work or seeking it. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 49%: many residents are past working age. For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 58% in work in October 2026. 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.
What households earned in Weedon: $54,300 in 2020
Every other place of 2,500 or more in the Le Haut-Saint-François census division has a higher median. Weedon’s median is 27% below the middle of Quebec’s towns ($74,100). 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).
A longer commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 29 minutes from Weedon
Timed exactly, the average is 26.2 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Quebec’s towns averages 26.5 minutes. A quarter-hour or less for 42% of commuters, 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.
Weedon empties a little on a working day
For every person who comes in to work, about 2 residents travel out. The job is inside the municipality for 47% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
53% of Weedon’s residents in work leave it to work; Sherbrooke takes the most
- Sherbrooke45
- Dudswell35
- Beaulac-Garthby30
- Stratford20
- Thetford Mines20
- Stornoway10
- Disraeli10
- Ham-Sud10
- East Angus10
- Sherbrooke110
- Cookshire-Eaton65
- Disraeli50
- Thetford Mines35
- Lac-Mégantic20
- East Angus20
- Ham-Sud15
- Valcourt15
- Lambton10
- Stornoway10
In the other direction the biggest source is Sherbrooke, with 45.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
9.1% of commuters from Weedon go without a car
The middle of Quebec’s towns has 4.2% walking; here, 8% do. 90% drive to work, about the same as in the middle of Quebec’s towns. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 16% against 21%. Few ride transit: 1.1%, 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).
EI claims in the Le Haut-Saint-François census division run 44% above their 2019 level
The count topped out in January 2021 at 1,360 people, 2.8 times the 2019 average. That is about 4.5 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 3%.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: the Le Haut-Saint-François census division. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Walkability in Weedon: graded B
Better than 61% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #331 of 507 in Quebec.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
How Weedon ranks: 461st of 527 Canadian towns of 2,500 to 3,800
| # | Place | People | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Grade |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Upper Mount Royal Alberta | 2,758 | 83% | 12% | $188K | A+ |
| 2 | Central River Heights Manitoba | 2,736 | 84% | 5.4% | $137K | A+ |
| 3 | Crescentwood Manitoba | 3,060 | 87% | 5% | $123K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 5 | Kuujjuaq Quebec | 2,766 | 78% | 4.2% | $112K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 10 | Hatley Quebec | 2,512 | 89% | 4.1% | $103K | A+ |
| 11 | Saint-Christophe-d'Arthabaska Quebec | 3,307 | 85% | 4.8% | $91K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 459 | Percé Quebec | 3,137 | 63% | 17% | $57K | D |
| 460 | Grenville-sur-la-Rouge Quebec | 3,040 | 75% | 10% | $62K | D |
| 461 | Weedon Quebec | 2,845 | 76% | 7.1% | $54K | D |
| 462 | Saint-Michel-des-Saints Quebec | 2,841 | 65% | 9% | $58K | D |
| 463 | Saint-Anicet Quebec | 2,854 | 75% | 8.3% | $66K | D |
| … | ||||||
| 527 | Division No. 8, Subdivision L Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,724 | 43% | 30% | $51K | D− |
Ordered by Jobs & income Grade: the top three, the places either side of Weedon, and others among Quebec’s towns.
Weedon and its neighbours: work and income
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Weedon | 76% | 7.1% | $54K | 29 min | D | B |
| Dudswell 13.3 km | 83% | 5.9% | $71K | 28.4 min | C+ | C− |
| Stratford 16.3 km | 75% | 8.8% | $63K | 29 min | D | 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 Weedon, 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. 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. Built from banded answers: each commuter’s usual one-way trip counts as the midpoint of the band they chose, and the result tends to sit slightly higher than Statistics Canada’s 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. 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. Monthly, and only for metro areas and economic regions. It is the up-to-date rate we set beside the census’s 2021 snapshot.
- Which towns we compare. Medians over towns and neighbourhoods of at least 2,500 residents. Whole cities would swamp them and reserves sit outside the rankings, so neither is in.
Questions about work in Weedon
How long is the commute from Weedon?
On average 29 minutes; 42% take under 15 minutes and 12% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Weedon work?
47% work in Weedon itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Sherbrooke (110), then Cookshire-Eaton (65).
How many jobs are there in Weedon?
About 555 people had their usual place of work in Weedon at the 2021 census, 0.8 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 87 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Weedon?
At the 2021 census 7.1% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Estrie economic region, gives 3.7% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Weedon?
The census puts Weedon at $54,300 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Weedon get to work?
90% of commuters go by car, 1.1% take public transit and 8% walk. On census day 16% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
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).