Borrowing in Bashaw, Alberta

With 848 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Bashaw sits inside Alberta's provincial lending framework.

The Alberta rules that apply

Provincial or territorial law decides who may lend in Alberta, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list that names the regulator responsible.

A payday advance in Alberta falls under a provincial licensing regime, and the cost of borrowing is capped at $14 per $100 advanced according to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

Communities of this size are listed here with population, land area and density, and the lending rules remain provincial.

How borrowing works locally

A payday advance is repaid on a pay date, while an instalment loan is repaid over a set number of payments.

A lender may ask for proof of address, and a permanent address is a standard requirement for consumer credit. An application usually asks for identification, income evidence, banking details and a statement of obligations.

The census figures for Bashaw

Population for Bashaw stands at 848 in the 2021 Census. The census records a land area of 2.7 square kilometres for Bashaw.

Dividing population by land area gives 311.8 residents per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

Among covered Alberta places, Bashaw sits at rank 208 by population.

Bashaw is one of 361 places listed for Alberta, ranked 208 by population and measured at 2.7 square kilometres.

Products compared here

The product pages behind this city cover the following borrowing categories, among the 20 products compared nationally.

• Instalment loans: A fixed number of fixed payments, sized larger and longer than a payday advance.
• Secured loans: Borrowing against an asset, which lowers the price but puts the asset at risk if you default.

For Bashaw, the two census fields above are the only local statistics used anywhere on the page.

Bashaw appears in the census record with 848 residents, and the density of 311.8 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Bashaw is one of 361 covered Alberta places, counted at 848 residents with a land area of 2.7 square kilometres.

Where a figure for Bashaw could not be verified, the page names the publisher instead of printing a number.

At 848 residents in the 2021 Census, Bashaw is listed alongside the other covered places in Alberta.

Bashaw ranks 208 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Alberta.

The Bashaw page follows the same structure as every other place page, with population, land area, density and rank.

The land area recorded for Bashaw is 2.7 square kilometres, and the population is 848 residents in the 2021 Census.

Nothing on the Bashaw page is estimated; the population and land area come from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population.

Readers comparing Bashaw with another community can use the same four census fields.

Bashaw sits at rank 208 within Alberta in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

The density figure for Bashaw, 311.8 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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Census figures are from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population, and the payday position is taken from the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

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