Borrowing in Prairie View, Manitoba

This page covers borrowing in Prairie View, Manitoba: the census facts, the provincial rules, and the products people compare.

How borrowing works locally

A provincial regulator publishes licensing requirements, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators.

Provincial licensing decides who may lend, and federal rules add a ceiling where a licensed payday regime exists. A secured product gives the lender a claim on a named asset, which is why its price is usually lower than an unsecured equivalent.

Products compared here

Among the 20 products compared here, these two are commonly used for the purposes described.

• Debt consolidation loans: Replacing several expensive debts with one payment, and the arithmetic that decides whether it helps.
• Personal loans: A fixed sum repaid on a schedule, usually unsecured, for almost any purpose a lender will accept.

The census figures for Prairie View

The 2021 Census counted 2,161 residents in Prairie View. The census records a land area of 1694.7 square kilometres for Prairie View.

On those two figures, density is 1.3 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

The community is the 75th largest place in the province within this census set.

Prairie View is one of 203 places listed for Manitoba, ranked 75 by population and measured at 1694.7 square kilometres.

The Manitoba rules that apply

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

A payday advance in Manitoba falls under a provincial licensing regime, and the cost of borrowing is capped at $14 per $100 under the federal limit (this province's own published limit is $17 per $100 advanced, the top of the range the Regulations describe) advanced according to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

At the small end of the census range, the community still borrows inside the province's licensing system.

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

At 2,161 residents in the 2021 Census, Prairie View is listed alongside the other covered places in Manitoba.

Prairie View is one of 203 covered Manitoba places, counted at 2,161 residents with a land area of 1694.7 square kilometres.

The density figure for Prairie View, 1.3 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

Prairie View appears in the census record with 2,161 residents, and the density of 1.3 people per square kilometre follows from it.

The land area recorded for Prairie View is 1694.7 square kilometres, and the population is 2,161 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

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

Prairie View ranks 75 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Manitoba.

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

Prairie View sits at rank 75 within Manitoba in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

loanmoose.ca is not a lender and does not make credit decisions. The lowest rates are only available to the most qualified applicants.

Population and land area figures come from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population; regulatory statements are attributed to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

Lending rules change, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators where the current position is confirmed.