Kalibrate Canada: 2024 year end data available now

Kalibrate Canada collects fuel volumes at roughly two-thirds of Canada’s retail gasoline stations and shows the average site throughput at Canadian gas stations was 5.1% lower in 2024 when indexed to a decade ago. The total volume sold at Canadian gas stations has declined since 2014 while the number of outlets has increased, leading to lower average throughputs at gas stations.

Retail volumes at gas stations peaked in 2017 and fell drastically in 2020 during the height of the pandemic. At the same time, the number of retail outlets steadily increased until 2021 before marginally declining in the last two years.

Coinciding with trends in the average site throughput are gasoline margins. Gasoline sales make up roughly 93% of total retail petroleum sales at gas stations in Canada, changing little over the last decade. Interestingly, the retail gasoline margin also declined during the pandemic, recovering in the last few years. Higher retail margins in the last few years may have compensated retailers with lower station throughputs.