Borrowing in High River, Alberta

A loan taken out in High River is governed by Alberta's licensing rules, and the 2021 Census counted 14,324 people in the community.

The Alberta rules that apply

Licensing for consumer credit in Alberta sits with the province or territory, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada maintains the public list of provincial and territorial regulators.

The federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) count Alberta among the provinces with payday lending rules, where the published maximum cost of borrowing is $14 per $100 advanced under SOR/2024-114.

Places in the lower-middle band group smaller towns and municipalities under the same provincial framework.

How borrowing works locally

A longer amortisation lowers each payment and raises the total interest paid over the life of the loan.

A consumer proposal or a bankruptcy is administered by a licensed insolvency trustee rather than by a lender. Payment history is reported to credit agencies, and that record is what builds or damages a credit file over time.

The census figures for High River

The 2021 Census counted 14,324 residents in High River. The census records a land area of 22.2 square kilometres for High River.

The calculated density is 645.5 people per square kilometre.

The 2021 Census population places it at rank 33 in the province.

Within Alberta, High River is place number 33 by population in this census set, at 14,324 residents.

Products compared here

Two of the 20 covered products appear below, each with the purpose the product is designed for.

• Business lines of credit: A revolving operating limit for a business, and why it behaves differently from a term loan.
• Collateral loans: Borrowing against an asset a lender will hold, from vehicles to savings, and what happens on default.

The land area recorded for High River is 22.2 square kilometres, and the population is 14,324 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

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

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

The density figure for High River, 645.5 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

High River ranks 33 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Alberta.

High River sits at rank 33 within Alberta in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

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

At 14,324 residents in the 2021 Census, High River is listed alongside the other covered places in Alberta.

High River appears in the census record with 14,324 residents, and the density of 645.5 people per square kilometre follows from it.

High River is one of 361 covered Alberta places, counted at 14,324 residents with a land area of 22.2 square kilometres.

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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).

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