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Hunger Statistics

Hunger in northern Toronto is measured principally by the number of visits to our hamper programs. For example, an emergency hamper program that provides food hampers on a bi-weekly basis will count all the members of a household upon each visit. In 2010, close to 150,000 hampers were distributed through our agency network. This was lower than the numbers we experienced in 2009, but still above pre-recession levels from 2008.

For a profile of hunger in northern Toronto, download our North York Harvest Hunger Data Sheet.

NYH statistics, Nov 2011

Number of food hampers distributed each month
  2011 change
 2010
January 11,445 -3.6% 11,872
February 11,208 -2.0% 11,433
March 12,777 -0.3% 12,818
April 11,605 -9.5% 12,821
May 11,232 -11.7% 12,725
June 11,878  0.6% 11,810
July 11,098 -1.5% 11,266
August 11,302 8.9% 10,376
September  11,835  -5.3% 12,496
October  12,362  -1.9% 12,604
November 12,695 0.8% 12,600
December     11,881
Year 129,437
(to date)		 -2.6%
(to date)		 144,702