Land Vehicle Entries Into Canada by Port and Type

International travel to Canada by land vehicle, including automobiles, motorcycles, trucks, and other vehicles, recorded at ports of entry. The dataset is part of the Frontier Counts program under the Tourism Statistics Program. It is provided by Statistics Canada and was last updated in March 2026.

Use Cases

• Analyze seasonal trends in automobile and truck traffic volumes by port of entry to inform border staffing.
• Model the distribution of vehicle types (car, motorcycle, truck, other) crossing specific land borders for infrastructure planning.
• Correlate vehicle entry patterns from Frontier Counts with other tourism indicators like spending or origin country data.

Strengths

• Data is provided by Statistics Canada, the national statistical office.
• Includes a breakdown by specific vehicle types (automobile, motorcycle, truck, other).
• Updated as recently as March 2026.

Limitations

• Specific row counts, column details, and temporal coverage are not provided in the input.
• Data granularity (e.g., daily, monthly) and exact list of ports are unknown.

Provenance

Source

Statistics Canada

Collection Method

Frontier Counts, part of the Tourism Statistics Program.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-23.

Geography

Canadian land border ports of entry.