Borrowing in Dettah, Northwest Territories

With 192 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Dettah sits inside Northwest Territories's provincial lending framework.

The census figures for Dettah

Statistics Canada's 2021 Census gives Dettah a population of 192. Land area for Dettah is 1.1 square kilometres in the same census.

On those two figures, density is 171.4 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

Among covered Northwest Territories places, Dettah sits at rank 24 by population.

The place record for Dettah covers 1.1 square kilometres and 192 residents, a density of 171.4 people per square kilometre.

Products compared here

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

• Cash advance loans: Immediate short-term cash, including the difference between a cash advance on credit and a payday-style advance.
• Lines of credit: A revolving limit you draw on and repay, usually paying interest only on what is outstanding.

The Northwest Territories rules that apply

Consumer credit in Northwest Territories is licensed by the provincial or territorial regulator, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators.

The federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) note that the territories do not have specific payday lending rules, which leaves Northwest Territories without a published territorial cap.

This is a small community by population, inside the lowest band used on this site, and the provincial framework applies without variation.

How borrowing works locally

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

Joint applications combine two incomes and two sets of obligations in the same assessment. Adding a co-signer puts a second file in front of the lender and adds a second person to the obligation.

Dettah sits at rank 24 within Northwest Territories in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

The density figure for Dettah, 171.4 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

The land area recorded for Dettah is 1.1 square kilometres, and the population is 192 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

Dettah is one of 29 covered Northwest Territories places, counted at 192 residents with a land area of 1.1 square kilometres.

Dettah ranks 24 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Northwest Territories.

Dettah appears in the census record with 192 residents, and the density of 171.4 people per square kilometre follows from it.

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

At 192 residents in the 2021 Census, Dettah is listed alongside the other covered places in Northwest Territories.

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

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

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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.