Table 3
Incidents of police-reported crime related to the sex trade, by census metropolitan area, 2010 to 2024

Table 3 Incidents of police-reported crime related to the sex trade, by census metropolitan area, 2010 to 2024
Table summary
The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (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).
Census metropolitan area Table 3 Note 1 2010-2014 2015-2019 2020-2024
number
Note ...

not applicable

Note 0

true zero or a value rounded to zero

Note 1

The Oshawa census metropolitan area (CMA) is not presented in this table due to the incongruity between police service jurisdictional boundaries and CMA boundaries.

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Note 2

As of the 2021 Census of Population, Fredericton, Drummondville, Red Deer, Kamloops, Chilliwack and Nanaimo became census metropolitan areas.

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Note 3

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 4

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau census metropolitan area.

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Note 5

As of the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville–Quinte West (formerly known as Belleville) and Lethbridge became census metropolitan areas.

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Note 6

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service that police the Toronto census metropolitan area (CMA). Halton Regional Police Service and Durham Regional Police Service are included in the CMA total.

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Note 7

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police Service that polices the Hamilton census metropolitan area (CMA). Halton Regional Police Service is included in the CMA total.

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Note: A census metropolitan area (CMA) consists of one or more neighbouring municipalities situated around a major urban core. A CMA must have a total population of at least 100,000 of which 50,000 or more live in the urban core. To be included in the CMA, other adjacent municipalities must have a high degree of integration with the central urban area, as measured by commuting flows derived from census data. A CMA typically comprises more than one police service. CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries. It is important to note that while official police-reported data on crime from the Uniform Crime Reporting Survey use Statistics Canada's standard CMA names, the boundaries for the policing-based CMAs do not always fully align with the standard CMA geographic units used for disseminating information about the Census of Population. One incident may involve multiple violations. Counts are based on the most serious violation in the incident. See Text box 1 for information on the specific offences examined in this article. 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).
St. John’s 73 13 9
Halifax 223 141 51
Moncton 205 301 74
Saint John 21 0 1
Fredericton Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 4
Saguenay 2 4 14
Québec 165 136 277
Sherbrooke 7 22 84
Trois-Rivières 21 10 42
Drummondville Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 16
Montréal 1,095 666 871
Gatineau Table 3 Note 3 35 42 89
Ottawa Table 3 Note 4 180 94 27
Kingston 18 3 2
Belleville–Quinte West Table 3 Note 5 ... not applicable 5 7
Peterborough 3 12 3
Toronto Table 3 Note 6 509 216 276
Hamilton Table 3 Note 7 267 64 3
St. Catharines–Niagara 39 28 6
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 141 39 135
Brantford 30 12 5
Guelph 19 11 9
London 336 221 69
Windsor 226 15 13
Barrie 73 99 19
Greater Sudbury 149 8 1
Thunder Bay 7 0 1
Winnipeg 534 538 325
Regina 318 131 134
Saskatoon 569 350 44
Lethbridge Table 3 Note 5 ... not applicable 6 26
Calgary 539 193 61
Red Deer Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 15
Edmonton 962 784 200
Kelowna 57 42 24
Kamloops Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 20
Chilliwack Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 22
Abbotsford–Mission 87 13 27
Vancouver 1,337 321 150
Victoria 22 6 16
Nanaimo Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 11
Census metropolitan areas 8,754 4,613 3,283
Non-census metropolitan areas 1,419 853 992
Canada 10,173 5,466 4,275
  average annual rate
St. John’s 7.3 1.2 0.8
Halifax 11.1 6.7 2.1
Moncton 28.7 37.3 8.6
Saint John 2.9 0.0 0.2
Fredericton Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 0.6
Saguenay 0.3 0.5 1.6
Québec 4.3 3.4 6.5
Sherbrooke 0.7 2.2 7.8
Trois-Rivières 2.7 1.3 5.1
Drummondville Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 2.9
Montréal 5.6 3.2 3.9
Gatineau Table 3 Note 3 2.2 2.5 5.1
Ottawa Table 3 Note 4 3.7 1.8 0.4
Kingston 2.2 0.4 0.2
Belleville–Quinte West Table 3 Note 5 ... not applicable 1.0 1.2
Peterborough 0.5 1.9 0.4
Toronto Table 3 Note 6 2.0 0.8 0.9
Hamilton Table 3 Note 7 9.9 2.3 0.1
St. Catharines–Niagara 1.8 1.2 0.2
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 5.4 1.4 4.0
Brantford 4.3 1.6 0.6
Guelph 2.9 1.6 1.2
London 13.6 8.3 2.3
Windsor 13.7 0.8 0.6
Barrie 7.1 8.8 1.4
Greater Sudbury 18.1 1.0 0.1
Thunder Bay 1.2 0.0 0.2
Winnipeg 13.7 13.3 7.4
Regina 28.2 10.5 10.0
Saskatoon 39.9 22.0 2.5
Lethbridge Table 3 Note 5 ... not applicable 1.0 3.9
Calgary 8.3 2.6 0.7
Red Deer Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 2.8
Edmonton 15.6 11.2 2.6
Kelowna 6.1 4.1 2.0
Kamloops Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 3.3
Chilliwack Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 3.6
Abbotsford–Mission 9.9 1.4 2.6
Vancouver 11.1 2.4 1.0
Victoria 1.2 0.3 0.8
Nanaimo Table 3 Note 2 ... not applicable ... not applicable 1.8
Census metropolitan areas 7.3 3.5 2.3
Non-census metropolitan areas 2.7 1.6 1.9
Canada 5.9 3.0 2.2
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