Photo: SriMesh · CC BY-SA 3.0The share of 15-to-64s with a job in Mayfair trails that of 73% of Canadian towns
In 2020, a household at the middle of Mayfair had $70,900 before tax, and the middle of Canadian towns sits at $85,900. Commutes from Mayfair average 17.3 minutes, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. When the 2021 census was taken, 12% of people in Mayfair who wanted a job had none, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
What the numbers say about work in Mayfair
Lower incomes than most towns
Half of households had more than $70,900 before tax in 2020, where the middle of Canadian towns is $85,900. Household income ↓
Shorter trips than most towns
Commutes take 17.3 minutes on average, against 26 in the middle of Canadian towns. Getting to work ↓
Written from the data on this page: Statistics Canada’s 2021 Census, its commuting tables, Employment Insurance and the Labour Force Survey.
The Jobs & income grade for Mayfair: B−
Better than 46% of Canadian towns on three measures together, #87 of 104 in Saskatchewan.
Its strongest measure is trip times; its weakest, the share of 15-to-64s in work.
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 Mayfair’s household incomes compare
Before tax, 2020: lower than in 64% of Canadian towns.
Mayfair’s median is 18% below the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns ($86,800). Of the 46 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 11, 36 have a higher median. CERB and the other emergency payments of 2020 are counted in these incomes, which lifted the lower ones 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).
Without a car, 9.3% of Mayfair’s commuters get to work
86% drive to work, fewer than the 91% in the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 13% against 21%. By transit: 4.7% of commuters, well above the 1.7% 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).
Work for 70% of 15-to-64s in Mayfair
Of the 46 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 11, 10 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
For the wider area, the Labour Force Survey had 65% in work in October 2026. 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.
19% more people are on EI in Census Division No. 11 than in 2019
Mayfair doesn’t get its own EI beneficiaries figures; the ones here come from Census Division No. 11.
Over the year to August 2026, the count fell by 2%. The count topped out in February 2021 at 16,430 people, 2.5 times the 2019 average. That works out to around 3.8 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division.
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).
How walkable Mayfair is: A
Better than 91% of Canadian towns on two measures together, #22 of 104 in Saskatchewan.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Mayfair places 310th of 578 on jobs and income among Canadian towns of 2,500 to 4,000
| # | 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+ |
| … | ||||||
| 12 | Boothill Saskatchewan | 2,613 | 80% | 8.2% | $98K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 14 | Esterhazy Saskatchewan | 2,513 | 83% | 4.9% | $91K | A+ |
| … | ||||||
| 308 | Lynnwood Alberta | 3,452 | 68% | 11% | $87K | B− |
| 309 | Norwood East Manitoba | 3,881 | 77% | 8.2% | $67K | B− |
| 310 | Mayfair Saskatchewan | 2,927 | 70% | 12% | $71K | B− |
| 311 | Greenview Alberta | 2,822 | 68% | 15% | $112K | B− |
| 312 | Grant Park Manitoba | 2,898 | 80% | 8.8% | $58K | B− |
| … | ||||||
| 578 | 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 Mayfair, and others among Saskatchewan’s towns.
Around Mayfair: jobs, pay and the commute
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mayfair | 70% | 12% | $71K | 17.3 min | B− | A |
| Caswell Hill 0.9 km | 67% | 7.4% | $75K | 15.9 min | B− | A |
| City Park 1.7 km | 81% | 9.3% | $59K | 18 min | B | A+ |
| Mount Royal 1.8 km | 67% | 9.4% | $66K | 17.8 min | C | A |
| Westmount 1.9 km | 64% | 16% | $63K | 16.2 min | C | A |
| North Park 2 km | 60% | 8.5% | $80K | 17.6 min | C+ | A− |
| Central Business District 2 km | 73% | 12% | $54K | 16.8 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 Mayfair, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. 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. 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. 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.
- Employment Insurance. Statistics Canada counts EI beneficiaries each month by census division. Seasonal work makes it swing, so read it as a trend, not a jobless rate.
- 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.
- Neighbourhood figures. Everything here sums the dissemination areas inside Mayfair’s lines, since the census has no neighbourhood profile; where people commute is on Saskatoon’s page.
Questions about work in Mayfair
How many jobs are there in Mayfair?
There is no count for a neighbourhood: the jobs figure, and where commuters go, are published for Saskatoon as one municipality.
What is the unemployment rate in Mayfair?
Two figures answer it: 12% on census day in May 2021 (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns), and 5.9% for the Saskatoon metro area in the Labour Force Survey of October 2026.
What is the average household income in Mayfair?
At $70,900 before tax in 2020, the median household in Mayfair compares with $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Mayfair get to work?
By car: 86% of commuters, 4.7% take public transit, 2.3% walk and 2.3% cycle; on census day 13% of those in work worked from home.
Sources: Statistics Canada, 2021 Census of Population (Census Profile) · 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).