Population
173,207
inhabitants
Area
366.16 km2
Labour market
Sherbrooke CMA (July 2021)
• Labour force: 119,000
• Jobs: 113,400
• Unemployed: 5,600
• Unemployed rate (%): 4.7
• Labour force participation rate (%): 63.3
• Employment rate (%): 60.3
Housing market
• Average price of a single-family residence in Sherbrooke: $313,319 (2nd quarter 2021)
• Average price of a two-bedroom apartment (Sherbrooke CMA): $671 (October 2020)
Job distribution in Sherbrooke
per activity sectors (%, 2020)
- Health care and social assistance services: 19.6
- Industrial: 15
- Trade: 13.9
- Educational services: 10.4
- Professional, scientific, and technical services: 6.6
- Construction : 6.5
- Lodging and food: 5.8
- Other: 22.2
Quick portrait of the industrial
and high-value–added services sectors (2020)
- 676 businesses
- 19,374 jobs
- $670,9M investment
Some subsidiaries of foreign companies in Sherbrooke
