Photo: Kjfmartin · CC BY-SA 3.0A place people come to for work: Esterhazy has 2 jobs per resident in work
Workers in Esterhazy spend 17.4 minutes on the way to work on average, and 2.3% need an hour or more. Out of work in May 2021: 4.9% of Esterhazy’s labour force, next to 9.9% for the middle of Canadian towns. In 2020, a household at the middle of Esterhazy had $90,500 before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
Work in Esterhazy: the figures worth knowing
More people in work than most towns
At the 2021 census 83% of the 15-to-64s were in work (73% in the middle of Canadian towns); across all ages 15 and over, 62%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
4.9% 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 4.9% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 17.4 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns; 2.3% 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.
Esterhazy earns A+ for jobs and income
Better than almost every Canadian town on three measures together, #9 of 104 in Saskatchewan.
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.
Esterhazy at work: 83% of people aged 15 to 64
A larger share in work than in 86% of Canadian towns.
By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 59% of the wider area’s adults in work. Counting those looking for work too, 65% of people aged 15 and over were in the labour force. Across all ages 15 and over the share in work falls to 62%: many residents are past working age. 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.
Each working day, Esterhazy’s workforce swells by 91%
915 residents of Esterhazy had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 1,820 people had theirs in Esterhazy, wherever they lived.
Inbound commuters outnumber outbound ones about 5 to 1 in Esterhazy. Of those who commute, 75% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
The length of the trip to work in Esterhazy
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 14.3 minutes. Only 60% get to work within a quarter-hour, against 67% in the middle of Saskatchewan’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.
1,133 people come into Esterhazy to work, most from Fertile Belt No. 183 and Yorkton
- Fertile Belt No. 183125
- Yorkton105
- Churchbridge95
- Langenburg No. 18175
- Stockholm75
- Langenburg55
- Melville50
- Russell45
- Bird's Point45
- Whitewood30
- Rocanville60
- Spy Hill25
- Langenburg25
- Gerald20
- Melville20
- Yorkton20
- Langenburg No. 18110
- Stockholm10
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 Esterhazy work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
What households in Esterhazy earn
Before tax, 2020: higher than in 75% of Canadian towns.
That puts Esterhazy 4% above the median of Saskatchewan’s towns, $86,800. Pandemic benefits paid in 2020 lifted the incomes at the bottom, and they are counted here.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Esterhazy gets to work without a car for 9.2% of commuters
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 6.8% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. On foot: 8.3% of commuters, well above the 2.9% in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns. Fewer drive than in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns: 89% against 91%.
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.
In Census Division No. 5, 16% more people receive EI than in 2019
Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 rose by 9%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 1,280 people, 2.1 times the 2019 average. That is about 3.9 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. Area behind the EI beneficiaries figures: Census Division No. 5. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Getting around Esterhazy on foot earns B+
Better than 66% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #58 of 104 in Saskatchewan.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
13th of 390: where Esterhazy ranks among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 3,400
| # | 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+ |
| 4 | Adelaide/Churchill Saskatchewan | 2,652 | 83% | 6% | $107K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 11 | Boothill Saskatchewan | 2,613 | 80% | 8.2% | $98K | A+ |
| 12 | Garrison Woods Alberta | 3,138 | 79% | 10% | $146K | A+ |
| 13 | Esterhazy Saskatchewan | 2,513 | 83% | 4.9% | $91K | A+ |
| 14 | Logy Bay-Middle Cove-Outer Cove Newfoundland and Labrador | 2,601 | 78% | 9.5% | $130K | A+ |
| 15 | Dundonald Saskatchewan | 2,855 | 79% | 5.8% | $115K | A+ |
| 16 | Rosetown Saskatchewan | 2,600 | 87% | 5% | $78K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 26 | Meadow Lake No. 588 Saskatchewan | 2,712 | 89% | 3.7% | $89K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 390 | 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 Esterhazy, and others among Saskatchewan’s towns.
Around Esterhazy: jobs, pay and the commute
The nearest places to Esterhazy with figures are 34–66 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Esterhazy | 83% | 4.9% | $91K | 17.4 min | A+ | B+ |
| Langenburg 33.5 km | 80% | 5.3% | $92K | 20.9 min | A | A |
| Russell 53.7 km | 85% | 6.9% | $80K | 18.9 min | A+ | A |
| Melville 59.6 km | 74% | 8% | $70K | 18 min | B | A |
| Moosomin 64.4 km | 81% | 4.5% | $83K | 17.3 min | A+ | A− |
| Grenfell 66.4 km | 68% | 13% | $64K | 20.7 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 Esterhazy, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. A monthly household survey by Statistics Canada, reported for metro areas and economic regions only. It supplies a recent rate next to the 2021 census figure.
- In work. Everyone with a job, whatever their age, divided by the residents aged 15 to 64 at the 2021 Census: below the municipality the census doesn’t split work by age, and this is the one rate every town and neighbourhood can be given.
- 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 2020 income of the household at the midpoint, all sources and before tax. Inside a city we rebuild it from the dissemination areas’ income bands, so there it is an estimate.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Esterhazy
What is the average household income in Esterhazy?
The median household in Esterhazy had $90,500 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Esterhazy get to work?
By car: 89% of commuters, 8.3% walk and 0.9% cycle; on census day 6.8% of those in work worked from home.
How long is the commute from Esterhazy?
17.4 minutes is the average trip, with 60% of commuters there in under 15 minutes and 2.3% taking an hour or more.
Where do people in Esterhazy work?
Most stay: 75% work in Esterhazy. The rest go first to Rocanville (60) and Spy Hill (25).
How many jobs are there in Esterhazy?
In June 2026, 133 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Esterhazy?
The 2021 census found 4.9% unemployed, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns; the Labour Force Survey’s latest, for the Yorkton-Melville economic region, is 4.9% (October 2026).
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).