Table 2
Police-reported human trafficking incidents, by census metropolitan area, 2009 to 2019


Table 2
Police-reported human trafficking incidents, by census metropolitan area, 2009 to 2019
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported human trafficking incidents. The information is grouped by census metropolitan area (CMA) (appearing as row headers), Human trafficking incidents reported in 2019 only, Total human trafficking incidents reported (2009 to 2019), Criminal Code, Immigration and Refugee Protection Act and Total, calculated using number, rate and average annual rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan area (CMA)Table 2 Note 1 Human trafficking incidents reported in 2019 only Total human trafficking incidents reported (2009 to 2019)
Criminal Code Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Total Criminal Code Immigration and Refugee Protection Act Total
number rate number average annual rateTable 2 Note 2
St. John's 0 0 0 0.00 1 3 4 0.18
Halifax 30 15 45 10.22 57 80 137 2.94
MonctonTable 2 Note 3 1 0 1 0.61 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saint JohnTable 2 Note 3 0 0 0 0.00 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Saguenay 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00
Québec 11 1 12 1.47 42 2 44 0.50
Sherbrooke 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0.05
Trois-Rivières 0 0 0 0.00 0 0 0 0.00
Montréal 35 2 37 0.86 186 14 200 0.44
Ottawa-Gatineau (Quebec part) 4 0 4 1.18 28 0 28 0.77
Ottawa-Gatineau (Ontario part) 34 1 35 3.21 273 9 282 2.51
Kingston 0 3 3 1.73 0 19 19 1.02
BellevilleTable 2 Note 4 3 1 4 3.54 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Peterborough 1 2 3 2.33 13 4 17 1.23
TorontoTable 2 Note 5 40 45 85 1.47 343 196 539 0.89
HamiltonTable 2 Note 6 10 12 22 3.83 52 46 98 1.60
St. Catharines-Niagara 7 24 31 6.47 27 37 64 1.25
Kitchener-Cambridge-Waterloo 6 0 6 1.01 31 10 41 0.67
Brantford 2 0 2 1.33 7 4 11 0.69
Guelph 1 0 1 0.70 6 2 8 0.53
London 15 6 21 3.83 64 27 91 1.59
Windsor 5 6 11 3.10 13 60 73 1.95
Barrie 10 4 14 5.51 21 19 40 1.57
Greater Sudbury 8 0 8 4.74 22 1 23 1.25
Thunder Bay 11 0 11 8.73 14 6 20 1.45
Winnipeg 0 0 0 0.00 20 1 21 0.24
Regina 1 1 2 0.76 4 5 9 0.33
Saskatoon 3 6 9 2.68 7 10 17 0.48
LethbridgeTable 2 Note 4 0 0 0 0.00 Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period Note ..: not available for a specific reference period
Calgary 8 1 9 0.59 42 7 49 0.32
Edmonton 5 8 13 0.90 36 28 64 0.43
Kelowna 2 0 2 0.93 13 0 13 0.59
Abbotsford-Mission 0 0 0 0.00 1 0 1 0.05
Vancouver 13 2 15 0.56 67 6 73 0.26
Victoria 6 0 6 1.49 8 0 8 0.19
CMA totalTable 2 Note 7 294 141 435 1.61 1,549 610 2,159 0.76
Non-CMA total 47 29 76 0.72 191 118 309 0.27
Canada 341 170 511 1.36 1,740 728 2,468 0.62
.. not available for a specific reference period
Note 1

A 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, 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. The Oshawa CMA is excluded from this table due to the incongruity between the police service jurisdictional boundaries and the CMA boundaries.

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Note 2

This rate is the average of the annual rates from 2009 to 2019.

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Note 3

Part way through 2013, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police revised policing boundaries for rural detachments in New Brunswick. This resulted in a change in the CMA boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, data from 2014 to 2019 for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous years.

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Note 4

Following the 2016 Census of Population, Belleville and Lethbridge were reclassified as census metropolitan areas. As such, data for the entire 11-year period are not available.

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Note 5

Excludes the portions of Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police that police the CMA of Toronto.

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Note 6

Excludes the portion of Halton Regional Police that polices the CMA of Hamilton.

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Note 7

Includes Halton Regional Police and Durham Regional Police, which are responsible for policing more than one CMA. This total also includes the portion of Durham Regional Police that polices the Oshawa CMA. May also include a small number of offences that occurred outside of a CMA, as 4% of the population policed by Durham Regional Police Service falls outside the boundaries of a CMA. Because of these inclusions, the CMA total will not equal the total of the individual CMAs.

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Note: This analysis is based on aggregate data, and counts are based on the most serious violation in a criminal incident. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Centre for Demography. The Uniform Crime Reporting Survey was amended partway through 2011 to allow police services to report the specific offence of human trafficking under the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act. Once the specific violation code was introduced, a small number of incidents which took place prior to this date were reported.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice and Community Safety Statistics, Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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