Table 1
Incidents of police-reported crime related to the sex trade, by violation, Canada, 2010 to 2024

Table 1 Incidents of police-reported crime related to the sex trade, by violation, Canada, 2010 to 2024
Table summary
The information is grouped by Violation (appearing as row headers), 2010-2014, 2015-2019 and 2020-2024, calculated using number, and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Violation Table 1 Note 1 Table 1 Note 2 Table 1 Note 3 2010-2014 2015-2019 2020-2024
number
Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to 0

Note 1

Sections 212(1), 212(2), 212(4) and 213(1)(c) of the Criminal Code were repealed under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note 2

Sections 286.1, 286.2, 286.3, 286.4 and 213(1.1) of the Criminal Code were enacted under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note 3

Paragraphs (a) and (b) in section 213(1) of the Criminal Code were amended under the Protection of Communities and Exploited Persons Act.

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Note: One incident may involve multiple violations. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based on July 1 estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey (aggregate data file).
Total violations related to the sex trade 10,173 5,466 4,275
Violations associated with the purchasing of sexual services 403 2,965 2,102
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 212(4)) 399 4 1
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 286.1(2)) 0 280 305
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from an adult (s. 286.1(1)) 4 2,681 1,796
Violations associated with profiting from the sale of sexual services 1,216 1,826 1,949
Procuring or receiving material benefit 1,215 1,688 1,811
Living on the avails of prostitution of a minor (s. 212(2)) 216 4 1
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by a minor (s. 286.2(2)) 2 64 39
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by an adult (s. 286.2(1)) 1 98 101
Procuring (s. 170, 171, 212(1)) 991 69 70
Procuring of a minor (s. 286.3(2)) 0 510 409
Procuring of an adult (s. 286.3(1)) 5 943 1,191
Advertising sexual services (s. 286.4) 1 138 138
Violations associated with stopping or communicating 8,554 675 224
Stopping or impeding traffic, or communicating for the purposes of engaging in prostitution or obtaining the sexual services of a prostitute (s. 213) 8,549 1 0
Stopping or impeding traffic for the purposes of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1)) 3 386 95
Communicating to provide sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1.1)) 2 288 129
  average annual rate
Total violations related to the sex trade 5.9 3.0 2.2
Violations associated with the purchasing of sexual services 0.2 1.6 1.1
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 212(4)) 0.2 0.0 0.0
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from a minor (s. 286.1(2)) 0.0 0.2 0.2
Obtaining sexual services for consideration from an adult (s. 286.1(1)) 0.0 1.5 0.9
Violations associated with profiting from the sale of sexual services 0.7 1.0 1.0
Procuring or receiving material benefit 0.7 0.9 0.9
Living on the avails of prostitution of a minor (s. 212(2)) 0.1 0.0 0.0
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by a minor (s. 286.2(2)) 0.0 0.0 0.0
Receiving material benefit from sexual services provided by an adult (s. 286.2(1)) 0.0 0.1 0.1
Procuring (s. 170, 171, 212(1)) 0.6 0.0 0.0
Procuring of a minor (s. 286.3(2)) 0.0 0.3 0.2
Procuring of an adult (s. 286.3(1)) 0.0 0.5 0.6
Advertising sexual services (s. 286.4) 0.0 0.1 0.1
Violations associated with stopping or communicating 5.0 0.4 0.1
Stopping or impeding traffic, or communicating for the purposes of engaging in prostitution or obtaining the sexual services of a prostitute (s. 213) 5.0 0.0 0.0
Stopping or impeding traffic for the purposes of offering, providing or obtaining sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1)) 0.0 0.2 0.0
Communicating to provide sexual services for consideration (s. 213(1.1)) 0.0 0.2 0.1
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