NAICS 9131Industry group · 4-digitlocal market1 market record

Municipal protective services

This industry group comprises establishments of local governments primarily engaged in providing services to ensure the security of persons and property. Protection includes measures to protect against negligence, exploitation and abuse. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 309
Under 10 employeesA: 32%

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–46722%

5–93210%

10–19258%

20–495217%

50–99206%

100–199248%

200–4996320%

500+268%

Of 309 Canadian establishments with employees, 32% have fewer than ten — an industry where large establishments carry real weight.

Where they areA

Ontario11738%

Quebec5618%

British Columbia4816%

Alberta227%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

No US figure is shown. County Business Patterns is coded to the 2017 US edition of NAICS; this code either does not exist there, names a different industry, or is outside the programme's coverage (most of agriculture, rail, postal and public administration are). A figure is attached only where both the code and the title agree.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 913, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionhigh capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 913 Local, municipal and regional public administration

Thousands of small municipal buyers with standard needs and slow procurement — a genuine vertical-software market, fragmented by design.

Who sets the price: Not applicable.
The software it runs on: Municipal ERP, permitting, utility billing and recreation management.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreened

Municipal Police & Bylaw ServicesStructure decides

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

Municipal police services, bylaw enforcement and municipal courts: 309 establishments, 113 employing a hundred or more [A]. This is a buyer, not a market to enter: the activity is a function of government, carried out under statute by public servants, and no licence, acquisition or amount of capital lets a private entrant perform it. Each police service buys independently, under a board, which makes public safety one of the few genuinely fragmented government technology markets — hundreds of buyers with near-identical needs. It is also one of the most locked-in: records management and computer-aided dispatch sit at the centre of evidentiary record-keeping, so replacing them means migrating years of records held under retention rules. The 913910 record covers the wider municipal software market and found procurement running 12–24 months and structurally favouring incumbents. Private security, which is what an entrant can actually operate, is a separate industry at 5616. The cut factor is recorded as entry cost and regulatory drag because that is the nearest the screening model comes to 'not available to private parties' — the barrier is not high, it is absolute, and everything interesting is in what gets sold across it.

NAICS 91315 vendors named11 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

No vertical software market has been recorded along this branch. What the subsector typically runs on: Municipal ERP, permitting, utility billing and recreation management.

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 3

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
Motorola SolutionsNYSE:MSI	Municipal protective services9131	—	1/3
CentralSquarePrivate	Municipal protective services9131	—	2/3
GenetecPrivate	Municipal protective services9131	—	3/3

Who works here

The occupations employed in Public administration, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Tagged to this industry

Occupations in front-line public protection services Judges, lawyers and Quebec notaries Assisting occupations in legal and public protection Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Managers in social, community and correctional services Managers in public protection services Police investigators and probation officers

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in public protection services One industry 98.5%

Police investigators and probation officers One industry 97.6%

Primary combat members of the Canadian Armed Forces One industry 97.2%

Occupations in front-line public protection services One industry 96.5%

Managers in public administration One industry 95.3%

Assisting occupations in legal and public protection One industry 93.1%

Water and rail transport operators and labourers and related occupations Mostly one sector 44.2%

Library, correspondence and other clerks Mostly one sector 23.5%

Architects, urban planners and land surveyors Mostly one sector 19.4%

Judges, lawyers and Quebec notaries One industry 15.5%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 28.8%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 28%

Technical inspectors and regulatory officers Across the economy 18.9%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 12.4%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 12.3%

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 11.8%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 10.7%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 9.5%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 7.4%

Customer and information services representatives Across the economy 7%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

6 rows sit directly beneath 9131, and 12 in all once every level is counted. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
91311	Municipal courts of law	2	screened at 9131
91312	Municipal correctional services	—	screened at 9131
91313	Municipal police services	109	screened at 9131
91314	Municipal fire-fighting services	89	screened at 9131
91315	Municipal regulatory services	93	screened at 9131
91319	Other municipal protective services	16	screened at 9131

Alongside it, under 913 Local, municipal and regional public administration

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
9139	Other local, municipal and regional public administration	4,056	Local Government Software