Education vs unemployment

This map shows the relationship between education (share of the population 25-64 years with a Bachelor degree or higher) and the unemployment rate. And it highlights the geographic variation in this relationship. Bluer tones signify higher unemployment rates, ogrange tones signify higher education levels. Explore patterns in Vancouver, Toronto, Montréal, or Calgary. At the municipal level in Vancouver we see two overlaying trends. An east-west trend in education level, with higher education levels in the western cities and lower in the eastern cities. And a donut effect with unemployment, where the central City of Vancouver (and North Vancouver) has relatively low unemployment rates, and their immediate neighbours forming a ring of higher unemployment rates, but the outlying regions south of the Frader and Maple Ridge again having lower unemployment rates. This map is based on data from May 2021, still heavily impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. The separate histograms allow for interactive explorations along either of these dimensions.

Author: CensusMapper Team

Dataset: CA21