Photo: Canadian2006 · CC BY-SA 3.0Households in Waldheim earn more than those in 64% of Canadian towns
The census counted 280 people working in Waldheim and 375 residents commuting to a fixed workplace. Waldheim counted 74% of its 15-to-64s in jobs at the 2021 census, next to 73% for the middle of Canadian towns. Census day 2021 found 7.6% of Waldheim’s labour force without a job, against 9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns.
The work numbers behind Waldheim
Work near the middle
74% of people aged 15 to 64 had a job at the 2021 census, against 73% in the middle of Canadian towns; counting everyone 15 and over, retirees included, it was 62%. In work ↓
Longer trips than most towns
The average trip to work is 29.2 minutes (26 in the middle of Canadian towns), and 8% 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 Waldheim: graded C+
Better than 35% of Canadian towns on three measures together.
Its strongest measure is household income; its weakest, trip times.
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.
A longer commute than the middle of Canadian towns: 29.2 minutes from Waldheim
8% spend an hour or longer getting to work; the middle of Saskatchewan’s towns has 4.1%. Timed exactly, the average is 26.2 minutes (Statistics Canada). The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns averages 18.1 minutes. Only 36% 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.
More of Waldheim’s workers leave each day than arrive
About 2 residents leave for work for each person who comes in. The job is inside the municipality for 34% of its commuters (70% in the middle of Canadian towns).
People with no fixed workplace are in neither count.
66% of Waldheim’s residents in work leave it to work; Saskatoon takes the most
- Laird No. 40450
- Saskatoon25
- Laird15
- Blaine Lake No. 43415
- Martensville10
- Hepburn10
- Rosthern No. 40310
- Rosthern10
- Saskatoon125
- Rosthern40
- Warman20
- Martensville15
- Corman Park No. 34410
- Hepburn10
- Laird10
- Prince Albert10
Coming the other way, Laird No. 404 sends the most (50).
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census (98-10-0459): commuting flows between municipalities (census subdivisions), rounded to 5; linked names have their own pages.
How many in Waldheim were working in 2021
Of the 5 other places of 2,500 people or more in Census Division No. 15, 2 have a smaller share of 15-to-64s in work.
The participation rate, everyone 15 and over working or looking for work, was 67%. An older population pulls the all-ages rate down: 62% of residents 15 and over were in work. The monthly Labour Force Survey, which covers the wider area, put its employment rate at 60% in October 2026. 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 earned in Waldheim: $84,100 in 2020
The middle of Saskatchewan’s towns is $86,800, and Waldheim is 3% below it. Of the 5 other places of 2,500 or more in Census Division No. 15, 3 have a higher median. That year, 2020, brought emergency benefits that count in these totals, before tax.
Statistics Canada, 2021 Census: median total income of households in 2020, before tax (a neighbourhood’s estimated from its dissemination areas’ income groups).
Leaving the car at home: 8% of commuters in Waldheim
Transit barely figures here, against 3.5% in the middle of Canadian towns. Nearly everyone drives: 91% of commuters go by car, truck or van. Fewer worked at home than in the middle of Canadian towns: 19% against 21%.
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. 15 run 8% below their 2019 level
That works out to around 4.4 beneficiaries per 100 people aged 15 to 64 across the division. Compared with a year earlier, the count in August 2026 fell by 3%. The highest month was February 2021: 4,830 people, 1.9 times the 2019 level.
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. 15. EI counts are context, not part of any grade.
People receiving Employment Insurance each month, as a share of the 2019 average (100).
Walkability in Waldheim: graded A
Better than 89% of Canadian towns on two measures together.
OpenStreetMap (© OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL); active commuting from the 2021 Census.
Neighbouring places to Waldheim, compared
| Place | In work, 15–64 | Unemployment | Household income | Average trip | Jobs | Walk |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Waldheim | 74% | 7.6% | $84K | 29.2 min | C+ | A |
| Laird No. 404 14 km | 83% | 1.4% | $103K | 31.7 min | B+ | C− |
| Rosthern No. 403 17.4 km | 88% | 2.6% | $96K | 28.1 min | A | C− |
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 Waldheim, where it comes from, and what it leaves out.
- 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. What the median household took in during 2020 before tax, as the census recorded it; an estimate built from income groups when the place is a neighbourhood.
- 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.
- 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. Beneficiaries of Employment Insurance, month by month, for the census division rather than the town. Many jobless people don’t qualify, so 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. We divide the number of employed residents by the number aged 15 to 64. Workers past 64 still count on top, because the 2021 Census crosses work with age only for whole municipalities; in return, a retirement town’s pensioners don’t drag the rate down.
- 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 Waldheim
How long is the commute from Waldheim?
On average 29.2 minutes; 36% take under 15 minutes and 8% take an hour or longer.
Where do people in Waldheim work?
34% work in Waldheim itself. Of those who leave, the most go to Saskatoon (125), then Rosthern (40).
How many jobs are there in Waldheim?
About 280 people had their usual place of work in Waldheim at the 2021 census, 0.8 for each working resident with a fixed workplace. Statistics Canada counted 70 businesses with employees in June 2026.
What is the unemployment rate in Waldheim?
At the 2021 census 7.6% of the labour force had no job and was looking (9.9% in the middle of Canadian towns). The latest monthly survey, for the Prince Albert and Northern economic region, gives 6.5% in October 2026.
What is the average household income in Waldheim?
The census puts Waldheim at $84,100 for 2020, before tax and at the median, against $85,900 in the middle of Canadian towns.
How do people in Waldheim get to work?
91% of commuters go by car, 8% walk. On census day 19% of everyone in work stayed home to work.
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).