Photo: Fralambert · CC BY-SA 4.0Yamaska has 0.2 jobs for every resident in work, so most commute out
Out of work in May 2021: 3.5% of Yamaska’s labour force, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns. An hour or more each way is the commute for 6.3% of workers in Yamaska; the average is 28.6 minutes. In 2020, a household at the middle of Yamaska had $62,500 before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
The short version on work in Yamaska
More people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 81% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 57%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 3.5% 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 October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
The median household had $62,500 before tax in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
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, Yamaska grades C
Better than 30% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
In Yamaska, 81% of the working-age population has a job
Of the 4 other places of 2,500 people or more in the Pierre-De Saurel census division, 3 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
In October 2026, 62% of the wider area’s adults had a job, on the Labour Force Survey’s count. Participation, the share of residents 15 and over working or looking for work, came to 59%. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 57%: many residents are past working age. Census day was 11 May 2021, in the pandemic’s third wave: unemployment ran high and many worked from home, so these figures describe that spring rather than today.
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.
How Yamaska’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 84% of Canadian towns.
Of the 4 other places of 2,500 or more in the Pierre-De Saurel census division, 3 have a higher median. Set beside Quebec’s towns, where the median is $74,100, Yamaska sits 16% below. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
More workers leave Yamaska each day than arrive
560 residents of Yamaska had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 120 people had theirs in Yamaska, wherever they lived.
Each person commuting in is matched by about 9 residents going out. 12% 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.
88% of Yamaska’s residents in work leave it to work; Sorel-Tracy takes the most
- Sorel-Tracy240
- Drummondville50
- Contrecoeur30
- Saint-Robert25
- Trois-Rivières20
- Saint-Joseph-de-Sorel20
- Saint-Hyacinthe20
- Saint-Louis20
- Montréal15
- Saint-Guillaume10
Of those coming in, Sorel-Tracy supplies the most: 25.
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 Yamaska work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Walking, cycling or transit: 2.8% of Yamaska’s commuters
Home was the workplace for 14%, under the 21% in the middle of Canadian towns. The car is the way to work for 96% of commuters.
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.
The length of the trip to work in Yamaska
Timed exactly, the average is 25.1 minutes (Statistics Canada). In the middle of Quebec’s towns, the average commute is 26.5 minutes. Only 19% get to work within a quarter-hour, 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.
Commuting time at the 2021 Census, to work only, for people who travel to a usual workplace or have none fixed.
33% more people are on EI in the Pierre-De Saurel census division than in 2019
Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 rose by 2%. In January 2021 it reached 2,900, the most in the series and 3.1 times the 2019 average. That is about 4 people on EI for every 100 aged 15 to 64 in the division.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Data for EI beneficiaries covers the Pierre-De Saurel 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).
The walkability of Yamaska: C
Better than 25% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Around Yamaska: jobs, pay and the commute
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Yamaska | 81% | 3.5% | $63K | 28.6 min | C | C |
| Saint-Robert 4.7 km | 72% | 6.7% | $78K | 29.8 min | C− | D |
| Saint-François-du-Lac 9.8 km | 79% | 6.5% | $58K | 28.7 min | C− | C+ |
| Sainte-Anne-de-Sorel 11.3 km | 80% | 4.8% | $80K | 19.9 min | A | C− |
| Pierreville 11.4 km | 76% | 6.2% | $52K | 26.2 min | C− | B |
| Sainte-Victoire-de-Sorel 14.3 km | 81% | 6% | $78K | 23.1 min | A− | D |
| Sorel-Tracy 15.5 km | 72% | 7.7% | $61K | 20.3 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 Yamaska, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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.
- Where people commute. Only people with a usual place of work are in it: those who work from home or have no fixed site are not. Home and work are both counted by municipality.
- Employment Insurance. A monthly count of Employment Insurance beneficiaries for the whole census division. It tracks the local job market, but it is not an unemployment rate.
- The Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada’s monthly survey, published for metro areas and economic regions rather than towns: it gives a current rate beside the census’s 2021 one.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Yamaska
How many jobs are there in Yamaska?
The 2021 census found about 120 people with their usual workplace in Yamaska, or 0.2 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 39 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Yamaska?
On census day in May 2021, unemployment stood at 3.5% of the labour force (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). For a recent figure, the Labour Force Survey put the Montérégie economic region at 4.3% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Yamaska?
Before tax, half the households in Yamaska had more than $62,500 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Yamaska get to work?
96% of commuters drive, 2.8% walk; 14% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Yamaska?
The average commute is 28.6 minutes; 19% of trips take under 15 minutes and 6.3% an hour or more.
Where do people in Yamaska work?
Only 12% work in Yamaska itself; the rest go first to Sorel-Tracy (240) and Drummondville (50).
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).