Ontario Licensed Security and Private Investigator Counts by Year

December 2026 data on Ontario’s licensed security industry personnel and businesses. It includes counts of licensed security guards, private investigators, dual licensees, and registered agencies. The dataset excludes individuals and businesses with revoked, suspended, or expired licenses.

Use Cases

• Analyze trends in the number of licensed security guards and private investigators over time to assess industry growth.
• Compare the count of dual licensees against single-role licensees to understand cross-training prevalence.
• Evaluate the distribution of security guard businesses versus private investigator businesses across reporting years.
• Study the proportion of other registered employers relative to dedicated security or investigation agencies.

Strengths

• Data is updated as of the last business day in December for each year, providing consistent annual snapshots.
• Includes distinct counts for seven license and business categories, enabling segmented analysis.
• Published by the Government of Ontario, an authoritative regulatory source.

Limitations

• Excludes entities with revoked, suspended, or expired licenses, limiting analysis of industry attrition or compliance failures.
• Contains aggregated counts only; no individual or firm-level records for detailed demographic or operational analysis.
• Unknown total row count and lack of column-level metadata limits understanding of dataset structure.

Provenance

Source

Government of Ontario

Collection Method

Administrative data from provincial licensing and registration systems.

Time Range

Annual counts as of the last business day in December for each year.

Freshness

Data reflects information available as of December 2026; the dataset page was last updated in March 2026.

Geography

Ontario, Canada