Borrowing in Shelburne, Nova Scotia

Shelburne is one of the Nova Scotia communities covered here, with a 2021 Census population of 4,336, and borrowing there is licensed under Nova Scotia's consumer credit rules.

The Nova Scotia rules that apply

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

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

The lowest band groups villages, rural municipalities and small towns, all read against the same provincial rulebook.

How borrowing works locally

Variable-rate products move with a reference rate, while fixed-rate products set the price for a defined term.

A lender's assessment looks at income, existing obligations, the credit file, and the asset pledged where there is one. A longer amortisation lowers each payment and raises the total interest paid over the life of the loan.

The census figures for Shelburne

The 2021 Census counted 4,336 residents in Shelburne. Its land area is 1816.7 square kilometres.

On those two figures, density is 2.4 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

Among covered Nova Scotia places, Shelburne sits at rank 40 by population.

Compared with the other 82 covered Nova Scotia places, Shelburne ranks 40 by population.

Products compared here

Each product below has its own page, and the Nova Scotia position applies to all of them.

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Shelburne sits at rank 40 within Nova Scotia in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

The density figure for Shelburne, 2.4 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

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

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

Shelburne appears in the census record with 4,336 residents, and the density of 2.4 people per square kilometre follows from it.

The land area recorded for Shelburne is 1816.7 square kilometres, and the population is 4,336 residents in the 2021 Census.

Shelburne is one of 82 covered Nova Scotia places, counted at 4,336 residents with a land area of 1816.7 square kilometres.

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

Shelburne ranks 40 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Nova Scotia.

At 4,336 residents in the 2021 Census, Shelburne is listed alongside the other covered places in Nova Scotia.

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

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

Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population supplies the population and land-area figures, and the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) supply the payday position.

The same structure is used for every place covered, so two communities can be compared field by field: population, land area, density, rank, and the provincial rules.