Borrowing in Saint-Mathieu, Quebec

With 2,339 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Saint-Mathieu sits inside Quebec's provincial lending framework.

The census figures for Saint-Mathieu

The 2021 Census counted 2,339 residents in Saint-Mathieu. Statistics Canada lists 31.4 square kilometres of land for the community.

That gives a density of 74.5 people per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

The community is the 355th largest place in the province within this census set.

Compared with the other 1150 covered Quebec places, Saint-Mathieu ranks 355 by population.

Products compared here

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

• Personal loans: A fixed sum repaid on a schedule, usually unsecured, for almost any purpose a lender will accept.
• Mortgage loans: Borrowing against residential property, including how a federally regulated lender tests the file.

The Quebec rules that apply

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

Payday lending is not licensed in Quebec; the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) list Quebec separately from the provinces that operate a licensed payday regime.

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

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 consumer proposal or a bankruptcy is administered by a licensed insolvency trustee rather than by a lender. Interest on a line of credit accrues only on the drawn portion, not on the unused limit.

Readers comparing Saint-Mathieu with another community can use the same four census fields.

Saint-Mathieu sits at rank 355 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

At 2,339 residents in the 2021 Census, Saint-Mathieu is listed alongside the other covered places in Quebec.

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

Saint-Mathieu appears in the census record with 2,339 residents, and the density of 74.5 people per square kilometre follows from it.

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

The land area recorded for Saint-Mathieu is 31.4 square kilometres, and the population is 2,339 residents in the 2021 Census.

The density figure for Saint-Mathieu, 74.5 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

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

Saint-Mathieu ranks 355 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

Saint-Mathieu is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 2,339 residents with a land area of 31.4 square kilometres.

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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.

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