Photo: CharmaineZoe's Marvelous Melange from England · CC BY 2.0Kamsack’s household incomes are lower than in 92% of Canadian towns
The 2021 census found 68% of working-age people in Kamsack employed; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%. Getting to work from Kamsack takes 18 minutes on average, an hour or more for 7.6%. Census day 2021 found 12% of Kamsack’s labour force without a job, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Kamsack at work: what stands out
Fewer people in work than most towns
Of residents aged 15 to 64, 68% held a job in 2021; the middle of Canadian towns is 73%, and over all adults the share is 49%. In work ↓
Lower incomes than most towns
Household income at the median was $57,700 in 2020, before tax; Canadian towns have $85,900 at the middle. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 745 jobs based in Kamsack and 495 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 18 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 7.6% 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.
Kamsack grades C− for jobs and income
Better than 25% 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.
How many in Kamsack were working in 2021
A smaller share in work than in 78% of Canadian towns.
The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 56% of residents that age. Many residents are past working age, so among everyone 15 and over the share in work drops to 49%. The Labour Force Survey’s employment rate for the wider area was 59% in October 2026. 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.
Kamsack households: $57,700 a year at the median
Against the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns ($86,800), Kamsack’s median is 34% below. Incomes are for 2020, the first pandemic year, so CERB and other emergency payments are part of them.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
A working day adds 43% to the people at work in Kamsack
Each resident commuting out of Kamsack is matched by about 4 coming in. The job is inside the municipality for 83% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
At 18 minutes, commutes from Kamsack are shorter than in the middle of Canadian towns
Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 15.7 minutes. Trips under 15 minutes: 71%, 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.
334 people come into Kamsack to work, most from Cote No. 271 and Canora
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
11% of commuters from Kamsack go without a car
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 13% against 21%. Hardly anyone takes transit to work, where the middle of Canadian towns has 3.5%. 87% drive to work, fewer than the 91% in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: main mode of commuting; average durations by mode from table 98-10-0458 (whole municipalities only).
EI claims in Census Division No. 9 run 10% above their 2019 level
Roughly 3.5 in every 100 people aged 15 to 64 in the division draw EI. Set against the same month a year before, the count in August 2026 fell by 3%. In February 2021 it reached 1,740, the most in the series and 2.2 times the 2019 average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. Not measured by town: EI beneficiaries (Census Division No. 9). 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 Kamsack on foot earns A−
Better than 79% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Jobs and income in the places around Kamsack
The nearest places to Kamsack with figures are 39–67 km away.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamsack | 68% | 12% | $58K | 18 min | C− | A− |
| Canora 38.8 km | 68% | 11% | $58K | 21.4 min | C− | A |
| Roblin 52.3 km | 88% | 3.7% | $56K | 17.9 min | B+ | B |
| Yorkton 55.9 km | 77% | 7.5% | $76K | 15.4 min | A− | B+ |
| Swan Valley West 58.2 km | 93% | 3.8% | $70K | 20 min | A | C− |
| Orkney No. 244 67 km | 82% | 5.3% | $91K | 19 min | A+ | D |
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 Kamsack, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- Trip times. The census asks how long the trip to work usually takes, in bands; our average uses each band’s middle, so it runs a little above Statistics Canada’s timed average.
- Where people commute. Built from the census table that pairs each worker’s home municipality with their workplace municipality. A job here means someone who usually works in the municipality, local or not.
- 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. 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. A census-day figure: people without a job who were looking, divided by all those working or looking, ages 15 and up.
- Household income. Before-tax total income of the middle household for 2020, from the census. Neighbourhood medians are worked out from bracket counts, since Statistics Canada publishes none of their own.
- Which towns we compare. Every town and city neighbourhood with 2,500 residents or more; whole cities and First Nations reserves are left out. Each middle figure is a median.
Questions about work in Kamsack
How many jobs are there in Kamsack?
Some 745 people worked in Kamsack at the 2021 census: 1.5 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 95 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Kamsack?
In October 2026 the Labour Force Survey put the Yorkton-Melville economic region at 4.9%; the 2021 census, which counts the town itself, found 12%, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What is the average household income in Kamsack?
The median household in Kamsack had $57,700 before tax in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Kamsack get to work?
Driving takes 87% of commuters to work, 11% walk, and on census day 13% of those in work were at home.
How long is the commute from Kamsack?
About 18 minutes on average, with 71% under a quarter-hour and 7.6% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Kamsack work?
Most stay: 83% work in Kamsack. The rest go first to Yorkton (35) and Pelly (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).