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Census day was in May 2021, during COVID-19 restrictions, so unemployment and work-at-home shares are unusually high. 'Leave own census division' = commute to a different census division or province; for the eight Dufferin towns that means working outside Dufferin County." }, "commuting_destinations": { "status": "not found", "note": "Top work destinations by municipality come from Statistics Canada table 98-10-0459-01 (commuting flows between census subdivisions). That table could not be downloaded from our build server; it is linked here for direct use.", "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810045901", "cd_table": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=9810046601" }, "lfs": { "table": "14-10-0464-01", "title": "Labour force characteristics by province, territory and economic region, annual", "released": "2026-01-09", "url": "https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/t1/tbl1/en/tv.action?pid=1410046401", "date_checked": "2026-10-21", "measure": "Unemployment rate (%)", "years": [ 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024, 2025 ], "series": [ { "er": "3540", "name": "Kitchener–Waterloo–Barrie (includes Dufferin, Wellington, Simcoe)", "values": [ 7.1, 5.2, 5.4, 6.4, 7 ] }, { "er": "3530", "name": "Toronto (includes Peel and Halton: Caledon, Brampton, Halton Hills)", "values": [ 9.1, 6.3, 6.2, 7.9, 8.7 ] }, { "er": "3580", "name": "Stratford–Bruce Peninsula (includes Grey: Grey Highlands, Southgate)", "values": [ 4.5, 3.8, 4.7, 3.7, 4.6 ] }, { "er": "35", "name": "Ontario", "values": [ 8.1, 5.6, 5.6, 7, 7.7 ] } ], "note": "Labour Force Survey annual averages. Economic regions are much larger than Dufferin; there is no LFS estimate for Dufferin alone. Participation and employment rates are in the same table but were not captured for this page (not found here)." }, "wages": [ { "group": "0", "name": "Legislative and senior management", "n": 3, "median_of_medians": 53.53, "lowest": { "wage": 50.18, "noc": "00015", "title": "Senior managers - construction, transportation, production and utilities" }, "highest": { "wage": 96.15, "noc": "00012", "title": "Senior managers - financial, communications and other business services" } }, { "group": "1", "name": "Business, finance and administration", "n": 58, "median_of_medians": 31.8, "lowest": { "wage": 20.67, "noc": "14101", "title": "Receptionists" }, "highest": { "wage": 62.5, "noc": "10011", "title": "Human resources managers" } }, { "group": "2", "name": "Natural and applied sciences", "n": 59, "median_of_medians": 42.32, "lowest": { "wage": 25.48, "noc": "22311", "title": "Electronic service technicians (household and business equipment)" }, "highest": { "wage": 69.49, "noc": "20010", "title": "Engineering managers" } }, { "group": "3", "name": "Health", "n": 32, "median_of_medians": 40.84, "lowest": { "wage": 20.6, "noc": "32104", "title": "Animal health technologists and veterinary technicians" }, "highest": { "wage": 61.54, "noc": "31302", "title": "Nurse practitioners" } }, { "group": "4", "name": "Education, law and social, community and government services", "n": 48, "median_of_medians": 43.22, "lowest": { "wage": 17.94, "noc": "45100", "title": "Student monitors, crossing guards and related occupations" }, "highest": { "wage": 69.16, "noc": "40040", "title": "Commissioned police officers and related occupations in public protection services" } }, { "group": "5", "name": "Art, culture, recreation and sport", "n": 25, "median_of_medians": 33.37, "lowest": { "wage": 18.5, "noc": "54100", "title": "Program leaders and instructors in recreation, sport and fitness" }, "highest": { "wage": 48.43, "noc": "50010", "title": "Library, archive, museum and art gallery managers" } }, { "group": "6", "name": "Sales and service", "n": 49, "median_of_medians": 20.5, "lowest": { "wage": 17.6, "noc": "63202", "title": "Bakers" }, "highest": { "wage": 60.1, "noc": "60010", "title": "Corporate sales managers" } }, { "group": "7", "name": "Trades, transport and equipment operators", "n": 82, "median_of_medians": 34, "lowest": { "wage": 19.5, "noc": "74203", "title": "Automotive and heavy truck and equipment parts installers and servicers" }, "highest": { "wage": 73.95, "noc": "72601", "title": "Air traffic controllers and related occupations" } }, { "group": "8", "name": "Natural resources, agriculture and related production", "n": 12, "median_of_medians": 24.38, "lowest": { "wage": 18, "noc": "85101", "title": "Harvesting labourers" }, "highest": { "wage": 62.98, "noc": "80010", "title": "Managers in natural resources production and fishing" } }, { "group": "9", "name": "Manufacturing and utilities", "n": 52, "median_of_medians": 25, "lowest": { "wage": 19.18, "noc": "94132", "title": "Industrial sewing machine operators" }, "highest": { "wage": 62.08, "noc": "90011", "title": "Utilities managers" } } ], "wage_meta": { "source": "ESDC Job Bank wage data (open data, revised 2025-11-19)", "url": "https://open.canada.ca/data/en/dataset/adad580f-76b0-4502-bd05-20c125de9116", "er": "ER3540 Kitchener–Waterloo–Barrie", "date_checked": "2026-10-21", "method": "Job Bank publishes wages per 5-digit occupation (NOC 2021), not per major group. Here each occupation with an hourly regional median is grouped by its NOC broad category (first digit). 'Middle of medians' is the median of those published occupation medians, a summary we computed, not an official group wage. Occupations shown only at an annual rate are left out." }, "reports": [ { "title": "Employer Needs & Labour Market Evidence: Annual Analysis 2026", "date": "2026-09", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/Employer-Needs-Labour-Market-Evidence-Annual-Analysis-2026.pdf", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/employer-needs-labour-market-evidence-annual-analysis-2026-report/" }, { "title": "Housing Our Workforce 2026", "date": "2026-05", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/2026-Housing-Our-Workforce_EN_pdf.pdf", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/housing-our-workforce/" }, { "title": "EmployerOne 2026 survey report", "date": "2026-03", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/03/EmployerOne-2026-1.pdf", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/employerone-2026-report-now-live/" }, { "title": "Moving Towards Our Future Together: Local Labour Market Plan 2026", "date": "2026-02", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/LLMP-2026-Final.pdf", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/moving-towards-our-future-together-llmp-2026-report-now-live/" }, { "title": "The Path Forward: Local Labour Market Plan 2025", "date": "2025-02", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/The-Path-Forward_-WPB_LLMP_-February-2025.pdf", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/resources/reports/" }, { "title": "Immigrant Workforce Commuting Research (Guelph-Wellington and Dufferin reports)", "date": "not found", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/immigrant-workforce-research-report-now-live/", "page": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/immigrant-workforce-research-report-now-live/" }, { "title": "Dufferin County: Commuting & Work (County Economic Development; 2016 Census-era figures)", "date": "2020-05", "url": "https://www.dufferincounty.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/Commuting-Report-1.pdf", "page": "https://www.dufferincounty.ca/", "publisher": "Dufferin County" } ], "wpb": { "name": "Workforce Planning Board of Waterloo Wellington Dufferin", "url": "https://www.workforceplanningboard.com/resources/reports/", "quote": "51.4% of Dufferin's labour force with a regular place of work commutes out of the County for work.", "quote_src": "Dufferin County Economic Development 2025-2030 Strategy and Action Plan, quoted in WPB Housing Our Workforce 2026" } }