B.C. agriculture and seafood statistics publications
Last updated on November 14, 2025The publications and reports on this page give a broad overview of B.C.'s agriculture and food industries. The province collects and produces statistical information including sector and regional profiles, industry performance, and market and trade analyses.
On this page:
- Types of data available
- Data and reports by sector
- Sector-wide data
- Crops
- Livestock
- Seafood and fisheries
- Food and beverage processing
- Exports
- Farm finance
- Labour
- B.C. Census of Agriculture
- Resources
- Contact us
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Types of data available
Sector stats are interactive pages capturing data highlights for different aspects of the agriculture, seafood and agrifoood sectors, so you get the latest information as it becomes available. You can zoom in on the charts and tables you’re most interested in.
Sector snapshots contain the same datasets but are only updated annually. The stats and snapshots include a broad summary of seafood, food, beverage processing and export industries. GDP, international exports, jobs and sales data are included.
Sector snapshots are downloadable in PDF format. The interactive Sector Stats are intended to be viewed live on the webpage. The visuals are easier to view in detail in the interactive version than in the PDF snapshots because the full text isn't always visible in the PDFs.
Sector tables include interactive dashboards and Excel spreadsheets that provide detailed datasets across the agriculture, seafood and sector. Data are shown over a ten-year period, as well as year-over-year comparisons.
Sector-wide data
Sector stats and annual sector snapshot
Crops
Sector stats and annual sector snapshot
Sector tables - interactive dashboards
View interactive dashboards that include:
- Greenhouse vegetables: area, production, and value, 2014-2024
- Nursery & sod: production and sales, 2014-2024
- Floriculture (potted plants, cut flowers): production and sales, 2014-2024.
- Floriculture: value of production, 2014-2024
- Mushrooms: area, production and farm gate value, 2014-2024
Sector tables - Excel
Livestock
Sector stats and annual sector snapshot
Sector tables - interactive dashboards
View interactive dashboards that include:
- Milk production and disposition, 2014-2024
- Egg production and disposition, 2014-2024
- Poultry meat production, 2014-2024
- Honey and beekeeping: production and market values, 2014-2024
- Honey (sub-provincial): 2018-2024
- Value of pollination 2014-2024
- Cattle on farms: 2014 - July 2025
- Cattle supply and disposition: 2014 - July 2025
- Hogs on farms: 2014 - July 2025
- Hogs supply and disposition: 2014 - July 2025
- Sheep and lambs on farms: 2014 - July 2025
- Sheep and lambs supply and disposition: 2014 - July 2025
Sector tables - Excel
Reports
Seafood and fisheries
Sector stats and annual sector snapshots
Sector tables - Excel
- Wild commercial and aquaculture 2013-2023 (XLSX, 47KB) Updated June 2025
Reports
Food and beverage processing
Sector stats and annual sector snapshot
Sector tables - Excel
Exports
Sector stats and annual sector snapshots
Sector tables - Excel
Farm finance
Sector tables - interactive dashboards
View interactive dashboards that include:
- Farm cash receipts 2014-2024
- B.C. agrifood establishment count, by employee count. December 2024
- Food consumption and B.C. self-sufficiency, 2014-2024
Sector tables - Excel
Labour
Sector tables - Interactive dashboards
View interactive dashboards that include:
- Jobs 2014-2024
- Paid workers' jobs 2014-2024
- Self-employed Jobs 2014-2024
- Avg. hours worked 2014-2024
- Avg. hours worked, paid jobs 2014-2024
- Avg. hours worked, self-employed 2014-2024
- Hours worked, all jobs 2014-2024
- Hours worked, paid work 2014-2024
- Hours worked, self-employed 2014-2024
- Compensation per job 2014-2024
- Compensation per hour 2014-2024
- Paid work compensation per hour 2014-2024
- Total compensation for all jobs 2014-2024
- Compensation, paid workers 2014-2024
- Wages and salaries 2014-2024
- Self-employed Income 2014-2024
- Actual wage rate 2014-2024
Statistics Canada releases a Census of Agriculture including physical, economic, social and environmental characteristics of the agriculture of Canada every five years. Census of Agriculture 2021:
| Title | File |
|---|---|
| Farms classified by capital value, by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 12 KB) |
| Farms classified by economic class and total value of sales, by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 17 KB) |
| Number of farms classified by industry, by region and regional districts, 2021 (updated Feb 8, 2023) | (XLSX, 14 KB) |
| Farm capital value by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 14 KB) |
| Farmland area classified by use of land, by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 13 KB) |
| Number of census farms and farm operators, by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 12 KB) |
| Farms classified by total number of employees by region and regional districts, 2021 | (XLSX, 14 KB) |
| Number of farms and total area classified by land tenure, 2021 | (XLSX, 16 KB) |
Agriculture in brief - Provincial profile 2021
- British Columbia (PDF)
Census of Agriculture data by census agriculture region (CAR) in the province of B.C.
- Vancouver Island–Coast (Region 1) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Lower Mainland–Southwest (Region 2) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Thompson–Okanagan (Region 3) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Kootenay (Region 4) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Cariboo (Region 5) (PDF, 102 KB)
- North Coast (Region 6) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Nechako (Region 7) (PDF, 102 KB)
- Peace River (Region 8) (PDF, 102 KB)
Census of Agriculture data by Census Division (CD) in the Province of B.C. 2021
- Alberni-Clayoquot (PDF, 198 KB)
- Bulkley-Nechako-Stikine (PDF, 198 KB)
- Capital (PDF, 198 KB)
- Cariboo (PDF, 198 KB)
- Central Coast (PDF, 198 KB)
- Central Kootenay (PDF, 198 KB)
- Central Okanagan (PDF, 198 KB)
- Columbia Shuswap (PDF, 198 KB)
- Comox Valley (PDF, 198 KB)
- Cowichan Valley (PDF, 198 KB)
- East Kootenay (PDF, 198 KB)
- Fraser-Fort George (PDF, 198 KB)
- Fraser Valley (PDF, 198 KB)
- Kitimat-Stikine (PDF, 198 KB)
- Kootenay Boundary (PDF, 198 KB)
- Metro Vancouver (PDF, 198 KB)
- Mount Waddington (PDF, 198 KB)
- Nanaimo (PDF, 198 KB)
- North Okanagan (PDF, 198 KB)
- Northern Rockies (PDF, 198 KB)
- Okanagan-Similkameen (PDF, 198 KB)
- Peace River (PDF, 198 KB)
- Powell River (PDF, 198 KB)
- Skeena-Queen Charlotte (PDF, 198 KB)
- Squamish-Lillooet (PDF, 198 KB)
- Strathcona Mount Waddington (PDF, 198 KB)
- Stikine (PDF, 198 KB)
- Sunshine Coast (PDF, 198 KB)
- Thompson-Nicola (PDF, 198 KB)
Historical census reports
- Agriculture Census 2016 - B.C. Highlights (PDF, 15.33 MB)
- Agriculture Census 2011 B.C. Highlights (PDF, 6.1 MB)
- Agriculture Census 2006 - B.C. Highlights (PDF)
- Agriculture Census 2001 - B.C. Highlights (PDF, 1.69 MB)
Resources
Statistics Canada
Interested in analyzing B.C.'s agriculture data yourself? You can obtain an accessible copy of the raw data directly from Statistics Canada and Fisheries and Oceans Canada.
BC Stats
Additional provincial statistical information can also be obtained from Data BC.
Other resources
- Global aquaculture production statistics (FAO)
- Global capture production statistics (FAO)
- View farm cash receipts from Statistics Canada
- Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada provides ongoing market intelligence reports on agriculture, food and seafood. Filter reports by market, sector, type of report and year published.
- Metric conversion factors (PDF, 175 KB)
- Map of agriculture census regions (PDF, 437 KB)
Contact information
1-888-221-7141