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Institut de la statistique du Québec
Monthly indicators: Employment and unemployment rates by administrative region
Key seasonally adjusted economic indicators.
| Employment | ||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Employment (K), three-month moving averages | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | 2026 | ||||||||
| November | December | January | February | March | April | |||||||
| Québec | 4 566.0 | 4 644.8 | 4 646.0 | 4 656.7 | 4 662.5 | 4 649.3 | 4 634.8 | 4 604.6 | ||||
| Bas-Saint-Laurent (01) | 101.3 | 94.8 | 90.6 | 91.0 | 93.7 | 95.9 | 98.7 | 99.1 | ||||
| Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (02) | 131.1 | 137.1 | 136.1 | 135.2 | 135.6 | 134.5 | 134.5 | 135.2 | ||||
| Capitale-Nationale (03) | 421.5 | 435.8 | 450.8 | 455.2 | 456.0 | 454.1 | 451.5 | 450.7 | ||||
| Mauricie (04) | 133.6 | 141.2 | 138.1 | 138.2 | 138.7 | 138.4 | 134.7 | 130.1 | ||||
| Estrie (05) | 174.8 | 174.0 | 173.6 | 174.1 | 177.2 | 179.0 | 181.2 | 183.0 | ||||
| Montréal (06) | 1 098.8 | 1 151.2 | 1 151.1 | 1 161.2 | 1 171.6 | 1 173.5 | 1 175.7 | 1 160.8 | ||||
| Outaouais (07) | 216.9 | 212.5 | 214.0 | 215.2 | 214.1 | 214.6 | 214.9 | 216.1 | ||||
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue (08) | 76.2 | 71.4 | 73.6 | 74.4 | 74.5 | 74.6 | 74.9 | 74.9 | ||||
| Côte-Nord (09) et Nord-du-Québec (10) | 52.3 | 51.6 | 54.3 | 54.4 | 54.8 | 55.5 | 55.2 | 54.8 | ||||
| Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine (11) | 37.0 | 37.8 | 37.6 | 38.1 | 38.5 | 39.1 | 38.2 | 37.8 | ||||
| Chaudière-Appalaches (12) | 242.3 | 248.9 | 244.9 | 249.3 | 252.7 | 257.7 | 254.5 | 251.1 | ||||
| Laval (13) | 240.6 | 242.8 | 248.0 | 248.1 | 248.6 | 246.4 | 245.4 | 244.6 | ||||
| Lanaudière (14) | 286.8 | 280.8 | 266.5 | 257.9 | 258.5 | 256.9 | 262.0 | 263.4 | ||||
| Laurentides (15) | 362.4 | 361.6 | 358.0 | 355.2 | 352.0 | 347.6 | 345.1 | 335.4 | ||||
| Montérégie (16) | 858.1 | 865.6 | 870.0 | 870.3 | 860.3 | 850.9 | 840.9 | 841.4 | ||||
| Centre-du-Québec (17) | 132.3 | 137.6 | 139.0 | 138.8 | 135.8 | 130.6 | 127.4 | 126.0 | ||||
| Unemployment rate | ||||||||||||
| Unemployment rate (%), three-month moving averages | 2024 | 2025 | 2025 | 2026 | ||||||||
| November | December | January | February | March | April | |||||||
| Québec | 5.3 | 5.6 | 5.4 | 5.2 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.8 | ||||
| Bas-Saint-Laurent (01) | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 4.1 | 3.9 | 3.5 | 4.2 | ||||
| Saguenay–Lac-Saint-Jean (02) | 3.2 | 4.5 | 5.0 | 5.3 | 5.3 | 5.4 | 5.5 | 5.4 | ||||
| Capitale-Nationale (03) | 4.3 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 3.7 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 3.9 | ||||
| Mauricie (04) | 4.7 | 5.2 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 3.6 | 4.1 | 4.8 | 5.7 | ||||
| Estrie (05) | 4.5 | 4.9 | 5.2 | 5.4 | 4.9 | 4.9 | 4.4 | 4.4 | ||||
| Montréal (06) | 7.8 | 8.0 | 7.4 | 7.1 | 7.0 | 7.3 | 7.4 | 8.1 | ||||
| Outaouais (07) | 5.6 | 6.6 | 7.4 | 7.3 | 6.7 | 6.3 | 6.5 | 6.6 | ||||
| Abitibi-Témiscamingue (08) | 2.9 | 3.9 | 3.3 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.2 | 3.1 | ||||
| Côte-Nord (09) et Nord-du-Québec (10) | 4.4 | 4.3 | 5.6 | 3.5 | 3.3 | 4.0 | 4.2 | 5.2 | ||||
| Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine (11) | 8.7 | 8.9 | 8.2 | 8.2 | 8.1 | 7.8 | 8.0 | 8.2 | ||||
| Chaudière-Appalaches (12) | 2.8 | 3.4 | 3.2 | 3.0 | 3.1 | 2.7 | 2.5 | 2.5 | ||||
| Laval (13) | 5.9 | 6.6 | 6.1 | 6.3 | 5.8 | 6.1 | 5.5 | 5.4 | ||||
| Lanaudière (14) | 5.6 | 4.8 | 4.3 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.4 | 4.2 | 4.2 | ||||
| Laurentides (15) | 3.8 | 4.2 | 3.5 | 4.2 | 4.6 | 5.6 | 5.6 | 6.2 | ||||
| Montérégie (16) | 4.5 | 4.6 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.9 | 5.5 | 5.8 | 5.9 | ||||
| Centre-du-Québec (17) | 3.9 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 3.7 | 3.7 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 4.5 | ||||
| F: Estimate too unreliable to be published according to Statistics Canada’s release criteria. | ||||||||||||
| – The LFS estimates for administrative regions, seasonally adjusted by the ISQ, are published as three-month moving averages to smooth out irregular fluctuations due to small sample sizes. For more information, please read the document Quelques rappels concernant les moyennes mobiles sur trois mois (MM3M) : | ||||||||||||
| https://statistique.quebec.ca/fr/fichier/quelques-rappels-concernant-les-moyennes-mobiles-sur-trois-mois-mm3m.pdf | ||||||||||||
| – Quarterly and annual values are calculated from monthly data rather than moving averages. Annual values are calculated from non-seasonally adjusted monthly data. | ||||||||||||
| – Selon le découpage géographique des régions administratives au 1er janvier 2021. Ce découpage ne tient pas compte des modifications aux limites territoriales de l’Estrie et de la Montérégie entrées en vigueur le 28 juillet 2021 à la suite de la publication du décret 961-2021. | ||||||||||||
| – Since March 2020, LFS results must be interpreted with caution, given the decrease in the survey response rate, which is still not back to its pre-pandemic level. | ||||||||||||
| – Numbers in bold have been revised since last Friday. | ||||||||||||
| Sources : Institut de la statistique du Québec, | ||||||||||||
| Statistics Canada. | ||||||||||||
Update : May 8, 2026
| .. | Data not available |
| ... | Not applicable |
| – | Void or zero |
| — | Negligible data |
| p | Preliminary data |
| r | Revised data |
| e | Estimated data |
| x | Confidential |
| F | Data unreliable |
| n.e.s. | Not elsewhere specified |
| p.-y. | Person-year |
| f.t.e | Full-time equivalent |
| ‰ | Per thousand |
| kg | Kilogramme |
| l | Liter |
| n | Number |
| t | Metric ton |
| $ | In dollars |
| k and '000 | In thousands |
| M and '000 000 | In millions |
| G | In billions |
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