January unemployment rates: select Canadian cities

OTTAWA – The national unemployment rate was 7.8 per cent in January.

Statistics Canada also released seasonally adjusted, three-month moving average unemployment rates for major cities, but cautions the figures may fluctuate widely because they are based on small statistical samples (previous month in brackets):

  • St. John’s, Nfld. – 7.1 (7.1)
  • Halifax, N.S. – 6.7 (6.8)
  • Moncton, N.B. – 6.4 (6.2)
  • Saint John, N.B. – 6.1 (6.4)
  • Saguenay, Que. – 8.1 (7.9)
  • Quebec 5.0 – (4.8)
  • Trois-Rivieres, Que. – 9.0 (8.4)
  • Sherbrooke, Que. – 7.4 (7.4)
  • Montreal 8.3 – (8.5)
  • Gatineau, Que. – 6.1 (6.3)
  • Ottawa – 6.6 (6.7)
  • Kingston, Ont. – 6.2 (6.8)
  • Toronto – 8.3 (8.3)
  • Hamilton – 6.6 (6.9)
  • Kitchener, Ont. – 7.0 (7.3)
  • London, Ont. – 8.3 (8.5)
  • Oshawa, Ont. – 8.9 (9.4)
  • St. Catharines-Niagara, Ont. – 9.7 (9.4)
  • Sudbury, Ont. – 7.8 (8.4)
  • Thunder Bay, Ont. – 6.8 (6.7)
  • Windsor, Ont. 9.7 – (10.9)
  • Winnipeg 5.4 – (5.4)
  • Regina 4.5 – (4.6)
  • Saskatoon 5.3 – (5.6)
  • Calgary 6.0 – (6.0)
  • Edmonton 5.8 – (5.8)
  • Abbotsford, B.C. – 9.7 (10.1)
  • Vancouver – 7.4 (7.3)
  • Victoria – 6.2 (5.8)

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