79,000 new jobs added in the last decade in Mississauga: report 

Some 12,000 jobs were added to the employment scene in Mississauga in 2025, more than double the amount of new positions created the previous year, the city’s latest job numbers show.

With those 12,000 new jobs added to the employment mix in Canada’s seventh-largest city between 2024 and 2025, the total number of jobs/workers in Mississauga has increased to an estimated 513,700 across all sectors, results from the City of Mississauga’s 2025 Employment Survey revealed.

Of those employees, around 75 per cent work at full-time jobs, according to the data collected.

The previous year, 5,326 new positions entered the scene to up the total number in the city as of this time last year to 501,500 (69 per cent of which were full-time positions). It marked the first time Mississauga’s employee population eclipsed the half-million mark.

The latest growth in Mississauga’s employment numbers was realized “despite trade uncertainty and economic challenges across Canada,” city officials said early this week in releasing the 2025 Employment Survey. Also included in the survey are insights from the city on how employment and businesses are growing in Mississauga.

Over the past 10 years, Mississauga has seen the number of workers within its borders increase by some 79,000 people.

In revealing the survey results at Monday’s planning and development committee meeting, city officials also noted that while employment rose between 2024 and 2025, the number of businesses slightly declined in the same period.

“The results show confidence in Mississauga’s economy as the city continues to support businesses of all sizes,” officials said.

Other key findings of the survey as identified by city officials include:

• The estimated 513,700 employees work at approximately 23,700 businesses.
• Since 2015, the city has added an estimated 3,100 businesses.
• Manufacturing, transportation and retail trade remain the top employment sectors with a combined 173,300 employees.
• Health care and social assistance is the fastest-growing sector, with 41,696 jobs.
• Small businesses account for 80 per cent of all businesses citywide.
• Large businesses employ more than half of the city’s workforce.
• More than two-thirds of jobs are located in Employment Areas and Corporate Centres.

The 2025 survey includes employment information for approximately 23,700 local businesses, the city said, noting they represent 84 per cent of businesses “with a physical location in Mississauga.”

Home-based and online-only businesses are not included, city officials added.

The City of Mississauga says it invites thousands of local businesses, from small corner shops to large manufacturers, to take part each year in the annual Employment Survey. Launched in 2001, the survey collects details on jobs and businesses, the types of businesses and where they’re located across the city.

“This information shows how Mississauga’s economy is changing and helps the city track annual employment trends,” officials say. “The results help guide decisions about transit and infrastructure planning and how the city delivers services for residents and businesses.”

City officials said they’ve already started gathering data for the 2026 Employment Survey, to be released in the first half of 2027.

(Cover photo: City of Mississauga)