Québec regional report shows job vacancies halved since 2022

Québec had half as many job vacancies in 2025 as it did three years earlier, according to a new regional portrait from the Institut de la statistique du Québec.

The November 2 report says vacancies declined in nearly every administrative region between 2022 and 2025. The drop was 54 per cent in Montréal, 59 per cent in the Laurentides and 60 per cent in the Outaouais.

The report also highlights a widening age imbalance. People 65 and older now outnumber those under 20 in 11 of Québec’s 17 regions. Gaspésie–Îles-de-la-Madeleine has a 65-plus share of 32 per cent, among the highest in Canada.

Older workers have also become more active in the labour market: the employment rate for Quebecers aged 55 to 64 rose by more than 12 percentage points from 2011 to 2025, reaching about 64 per cent.

Other findings include an 89 per cent increase in the average assessed value of a single-family home over ten years and growth in Québec’s light-duty electric-vehicle fleet from 43,200 in 2019 to 447,400 by March 31, 2026.

Source: Institut de la statistique du Québec, Panorama des régions du Québec release published November 2, 2026.

Featured image: illustrative stock landscape from Québec by Eloi Motte on Unsplash, used under the Unsplash Licence. It is not a photograph of the report’s data or every region discussed. Cropped/resized by WordPress.