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 2009, over 160,000 hampers were distributed through our agency network. This represented a 17% increase over 2008.

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

NYH Stats May. 2010

Number of food hampers distributed each month
  2010 change
 2009 change 2008
January 11,920 -7.3% 12,877 +7.7% 11,962
February 11,433 -14.6% 13,385 +19.6% 11,188
March 12,800 -13.2% 14,754 +39.0% 10,617
April 12,797 -11.8% 14,515 +29.4% 11,215
May 12,658 -10.1% 14,083 +18.9% 11,845
June     13,355 +22.0% 10,945
July     13,045 +28.1% 10,182
August     13,021 +33.7% 9,742
September     13,451 +9.4% 12,301
October     14,458 +9.0% 13,259
November     13,120 +1.7% 12,903
December     12,231 -3.6% 12,688
Year 61,608
(to date)		 -11.5%
(to date)		 162,295 +16.9% 138,847