Working-age people in Eston are more likely to have a job than in 92% of Canadian towns
In May 2021, unemployment in Eston reached 4.3%; the middle of Canadian towns is 9.9%. Workers in Eston spend 13.8 minutes on the way to work on average, and 2.7% need an hour or more. Before tax, the typical household in Eston brought in $72,500 in 2020, next to $85,900 for the middle of Canadian towns.
What Eston’s work numbers say
More people in work than most towns
Among residents aged 15 to 64, 85% were in work at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; take everyone 15 and over and it falls to 64%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 4.3% at the 2021 census, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns. The Labour Force Survey for the wider area read 6.2% in October 2026. Unemployment ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
At $72,500 before tax in 2020, the median household compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
More jobs than the typical town
With 330 jobs based in Eston and 310 working residents, the ratio compares with 0.8 in the middle of Canadian towns. The daily tide ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 13.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 2.7% 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.
Eston earns A+ for jobs and income
Better than 96% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
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.
85% of working-age people in Eston have jobs
Add those looking for a job to those with one, and 66% of residents 15 and over were in the labour force. Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 64% were working. A more recent figure, for the wider area: 59% in work in October 2026, by the Labour Force Survey. Statistics Canada counted on 11 May 2021, with much of the country under pandemic rules: more people were out of work or at home than usual.
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 in Eston earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 60% of Canadian towns.
Against the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns ($86,800), Eston’s median is 16% below. Incomes here are 2020’s and include the pandemic payments, CERB among them, that propped up the lower end.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Every working day, Eston’s workforce grows by 5%
310 residents of Eston had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 330 people had theirs in Eston, wherever they lived.
The job is inside the municipality for 86% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
Time on the road to work from Eston
Timed exactly, the average is 10.3 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns averages 18.1 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 80%, more than the 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.
62 people come into Eston to work, most from Snipe Lake No. 259 and Kindersley
- Snipe Lake No. 25930
- Kindersley15
- Kindersley15
- Newcombe No. 26010
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 Eston work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
Without a car, 21% of Eston’s commuters get to work
More people walk to work here than in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns: 18% against 2.9%. The car takes 77% of commuters here, under the 91% in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns. 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.
In Census Division No. 8, 7% more people receive EI than in 2019
Figures for EI beneficiaries are published for Census Division No. 8 as a whole, not for Eston alone.
For each 100 residents of working age in the division, about 3.3 are on EI. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 2%. The highest month was February 2021: 1,130 people, 2.1 times the 2019 level.
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).
Everyday places on foot in Eston: A
Better than 89% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
The work picture around Eston
No closer places have figures: these lie 44–70 km from Eston.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eston | 85% | 4.3% | $73K | 13.8 min | A+ | A |
| Kindersley 44.3 km | 81% | 6.4% | $90K | 13.7 min | A+ | A− |
| Kindersley No. 290 50.4 km | 81% | 2.9% | $108K | 18.5 min | A+ | C+ |
| Rosetown 69.7 km | 87% | 5% | $78K | 14.4 min | A+ | 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 Eston, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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.
- 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. How many residents held a job in May 2021, set against how many were 15 to 64. It reads a little high where many people work past 65, since below the municipality the census gives no breakdown of workers by age.
- Unemployment. Of everyone 15 or older who was working or job-hunting in the census week, the part still looking. Someone not seeking work isn’t in it at all.
- Household income. Taken from the 2021 Census, which asked about 2020: wages, pensions, investment income and government transfers together, before income tax, for the median household.
- Which towns we compare. Any town of 2,500 or more counts, and so does any city neighbourhood that size; the city as a whole and First Nations reserves don’t. The middle is the median.
Questions about work in Eston
How many jobs are there in Eston?
The 2021 census found about 330 people with their usual workplace in Eston, or 1.1 for each resident who travels to a fixed job. Statistics Canada counted 72 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Eston?
At the 2021 census 4.3% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Swift Current-Moose Jaw economic region, gives 6.2% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Eston?
At $72,500 before tax in 2020, the median household in Eston compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Eston get to work?
77% of commuters drive, 18% walk and 2.7% cycle; 20% of everyone in work worked at home on census day.
How long is the commute from Eston?
The average commute is 13.8 minutes; 80% of trips take under 15 minutes and 2.7% an hour or more.
Where do people in Eston work?
86% work in Eston itself; of those who leave, the most go to Kindersley (15), then Newcombe No. 260 (10).
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).