Photo: Awmcphee · CC BY-SA 3.0Working-age people in Maple Creek have jobs more often than in 84% of Canadian towns
Half the households in Maple Creek had more than $65,000 in 2020, before tax; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. The average trip to work from Maple Creek is 14.8 minutes; 4.3% of commuters spend an hour or more getting there. In May 2021, unemployment in Maple Creek reached 6.1%, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at 9.9%.
Maple Creek at work: what stands out
More people in work than most towns
The 2021 census found 82% of 15-to-64s with a job (73% in the middle of Canadian towns). Count every adult, retirees too, and the figure is 55%. In work ↓
Less unemployment than most towns
Unemployment was 6.1% 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
Half the households here had more than $65,000 in 2020, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns. Household income ↓
A local job centre
With 1,065 jobs based in Maple Creek and 760 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 14.8 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 4.3% 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.
Jobs & income in Maple Creek: graded A−
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.
In Maple Creek, 82% of people aged 15 to 64 have a job
Take in all adults, retirees with them, and only 55% were working. By October 2026, the Labour Force Survey had 59% of the wider area’s adults in work. The labour force, people 15 and over with a job or seeking one, took in 58% of residents that age. The census was taken on 11 May 2021, mid-pandemic, when lockdowns had pushed unemployment up and sent many to work from home.
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 Maple Creek earn
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 78% of Canadian towns.
The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns is $86,800, and Maple Creek is 25% below it. Read the incomes as 2020’s, before tax: pandemic benefits such as CERB are in them, and they raised many low incomes for that year.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Each working day, Maple Creek’s workforce swells by 38%
760 residents of Maple Creek had a usual place of work at the 2021 census, and 1,065 people had theirs in Maple Creek, wherever they lived.
Each resident commuting out of Maple Creek is matched by about 7 coming in. Of those who commute, 93% stay within the municipality; the middle of Canadian towns is 70%.
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
Time on the road to work from Maple Creek
A quarter-hour or less for 77% of commuters, against 67% in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns. Statistics Canada’s own average, timed exactly rather than by band, is 12.1 minutes. The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns averages 18.1 minutes.
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.
357 people come into Maple Creek to work, most from Maple Creek No. 111 and Piapot No. 110
- Maple Creek No. 111180
- Piapot No. 11035
- Medicine Hat30
- Swift Current20
- Big Stick No. 14120
- Reno No. 5110
- Bone Creek No. 10810
- North Battleford10
- Calgary10
- Piapot No. 11010
- Cypress County10
34% of the people who work in Maple Creek live outside it, 180 of them in Maple Creek No. 111, 16 km away. Piapot No. 110 is where the largest group of commuters out goes, 10 of them.
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 Maple Creek work and where people who work there live, the ten largest each way.
On foot, by bike, bus or train: 15% of Maple Creek’s commuters
Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 5% against 21%. Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns has 2.9% walking; here, 14% do.
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.
54% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 4 than in 2019
Per 100 residents aged 15 to 64, about 3.1 receive EI. Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 17%. January 2021 was the busiest month, with 280 people on EI, 1.5 times 2019’s average.
Statistics Canada, Employment Insurance beneficiaries by census division (14-10-0323): all income benefits, not seasonally adjusted. EI beneficiaries: one figure for all of Census Division No. 4. 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 Maple Creek: A
Better than 95% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Maple Creek, compared
Maple Creek has few close neighbours with figures, so the list reaches 16–95 km out.
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Maple Creek | 82% | 6.1% | $65K | 14.8 min | A− | A |
| Maple Creek No. 111 15.9 km | 66% | 4.1% | $71K | 23.2 min | C− | D− |
| Shaunavon 81.9 km | 83% | 3.2% | $71K | 15.9 min | A | A |
| Medicine Hat 86 km | 71% | 12% | $78K | 18.1 min | B | B+ |
| Cypress County 87.2 km | 77% | 6.8% | $101K | 23.9 min | A− | C |
| Redcliff 95 km | 71% | 12% | $83K | 22.3 min | B− | 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 Maple Creek, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. How many people in the census division drew Employment Insurance each month; it moves with layoffs and hiring, yet people who don’t qualify are absent from it.
- The Labour Force Survey. The most recent unemployment rate on the page comes from this monthly survey, which covers the wider metro area or economic region, not the town.
- In work. Working residents per resident of working age (15 to 64), from the 2021 Census.
- 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. 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.
- 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 Maple Creek
How long is the commute from Maple Creek?
About 14.8 minutes on average, with 77% under a quarter-hour and 4.3% at an hour or longer.
Where do people in Maple Creek work?
93% work in Maple Creek itself; of those who leave, the most go to Piapot No. 110 (10), then Cypress County (10).
How many jobs are there in Maple Creek?
Some 1,065 people worked in Maple Creek at the 2021 census: 1.4 jobs per working resident with a fixed workplace. In June 2026, 154 businesses with employees were on Statistics Canada’s count.
What is the unemployment rate in Maple Creek?
At the 2021 census 6.1% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Swift Current-Moose Jaw economic region, gives 6.2% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Maple Creek?
Before tax, half the households in Maple Creek had more than $65,000 in 2020; the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900.
How do people in Maple Creek get to work?
Driving takes 84% of commuters to work, 14% walk and 1.6% cycle, and on census day 5% of those in work were at home.
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).