Table 2
Police-reported prostitution offences, by census metropolitan area, 2009 to 2014

Table 2
Police-reported prostitution offences, by census metropolitan area, 2009 to 2014
Table summary
This table displays the results of Police-reported prostitution offences. The information is grouped by Census metropolitan area (appearing as row headers), 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2009 to 2014, calculated using number, rate, total number and average rate units of measure (appearing as column headers).
Census metropolitan areaTable 2 Note 1, Table 2 Note 2, Table 2 Note 3 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2009 to 2014
number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate number rate total number average rate Table 2 Note 4
St. John's 23 12.0 20 10.2 10 5.0 19 9.4 19 9.3 5 2.5 96 8.0
Halifax 59 15.0 65 16.3 40 9.9 21 5.2 51 12.4 54 13.0 290 12.0
MonctonTable 2 Note 5 32 23.6 32 23.2 37 26.4 57 40.2 58 40.6 20 13.0 236 27.7
Saint JohnTable 2 Note 5 16 11.0 5 3.4 4 2.7 10 6.8 2 1.4 0 0.0 37 4.3
Saguenay 2 1.4 2 1.4 1 0.6 1 0.6 0 0.0 0 0.0 6 0.6
Québec 24 3.2 36 4.7 69 8.9 46 5.9 13 1.7 5 0.6 193 4.2
Sherbrooke 10 5.4 1 0.5 0 0.0 1 0.5 5 2.6 0 0.0 17 1.5
Trois-Rivières 15 10.0 2 1.3 5 3.3 11 7.2 5 3.2 0 0.0 38 4.1
Montréal 495 13.0 324 8.4 293 7.5 253 6.4 190 4.8 98 2.4 1,653 7.0
GatineauTable 2 Note 6 9 3.0 10 3.2 13 4.1 7 2.2 6 1.9 8 2.5 53 2.8
OttawaTable 2 Note 7 50 5.4 31 3.3 19 2.0 44 4.6 63 6.5 33 3.3 240 4.2
Kingston 9 5.6 14 8.7 0 0.0 1 0.6 2 1.2 2 1.2 28 2.9
Peterborough 2 1.7 1 0.8 2 1.7 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 5 0.7
Toronto 637 11.5 370 6.6 86 1.5 104 1.8 124 2.1 79 1.3 1,400 4.0
Hamilton 110 15.6 69 9.7 71 9.9 61 8.4 63 8.6 14 1.9 388 8.9
St. Catharines–Niagara 9 2.0 17 3.9 3 0.7 7 1.6 13 2.9 0 0.0 49 1.8
Kitchener–Cambridge–Waterloo 63 12.3 45 8.7 52 9.9 30 5.7 16 3.0 7 1.3 213 6.7
Brantford 10 7.2 13 9.3 3 2.1 3 2.1 6 4.2 5 3.5 40 4.7
Guelph 1 0.8 3 2.4 1 0.8 1 0.8 5 3.9 8 6.2 19 2.5
London 79 16.3 79 16.2 117 23.8 79 15.9 62 12.4 3 0.6 419 14.1
Windsor 98 29.8 66 20.1 72 21.9 66 20.0 34 10.3 3 0.9 339 17.2
Barrie 7 3.5 7 3.5 28 13.8 15 7.3 6 2.9 18 8.6 81 6.6
Greater Sudbury 26 15.7 54 32.8 50 30.4 30 18.2 15 9.1 0 0.0 175 17.7
Thunder Bay 10 8.3 7 5.8 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 0 0.0 17 2.4
Winnipeg 104 13.7 95 12.4 151 19.5 143 18.1 92 11.5 52 6.6 637 13.6
Regina 63 29.7 65 30.0 69 31.3 92 40.4 87 37.2 7 2.9 383 28.4
Saskatoon 142 53.6 116 42.7 136 48.9 105 36.4 161 54.1 59 19.2 719 42.1
Calgary 150 12.3 182 14.6 113 8.9 65 5.0 143 10.5 53 3.8 706 9.0
Edmonton 307 26.3 276 23.2 214 17.7 155 12.4 233 18.1 106 8.0 1,291 17.4
Kelowna 22 12.3 13 7.2 3 1.6 17 9.2 16 8.6 10 5.3 81 7.3
Abbotsford–Mission 33 19.3 20 11.6 11 6.3 24 13.6 15 8.4 19 10.6 122 11.6
Vancouver 503 21.9 384 16.4 396 16.7 350 14.5 220 9.0 141 5.7 1,994 13.9
Victoria 16 4.6 6 1.7 2 0.6 10 2.8 5 1.4 0 0.0 39 1.8
Canada 3,534 10.5 3,020 8.9 2,452 7.1 2,102 6.1 2,046 5.8 1,073 3.0 14,227 6.9
Note 1.

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.

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Note 2.

CMA populations have been adjusted to follow policing boundaries.

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Note 3.

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 4.

Average rates are calculated by dividing the sum of police-reported prostitution incidents for 2009 to 2014 for a given CMA by the sum of population counts for 2009 to 2014, multiplied by 100,000 population.

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Note 5.

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 census metropolitan area (CMA) boundaries that are determined for the purpose of reporting crime statistics. As such, 2013 data for the New Brunswick CMAs of Saint John and Moncton are not comparable to previous or future years. Further, data from 2014 onward are not comparable to years prior to 2014.

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Note 6.

Gatineau refers to the Quebec part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note 7.

Ottawa refers to the Ontario part of the Ottawa–Gatineau CMA.

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Note: Counts are based upon the most serious violation in the incident. One incident may involve multiple violations. Rates are calculated on the basis of 100,000 population. Populations are based upon July 1st estimates from Statistics Canada, Demography Division. This analysis is based on the research file from the Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey Trend Database (2009 to 2014), which represents 99% of police services in Canada. Figures from 2014 reflect updates last made in March 2015. Revised data are available as of July 2016, but were not accessible in time for this report.
Source: Statistics Canada, Canadian Centre for Justice Statistics, Incident-based Uniform Crime Reporting Survey.
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