Borrowing in Sainte-Élisabeth, Quebec

With 1,390 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Sainte-Élisabeth sits inside Quebec's provincial lending framework.

The census figures for Sainte-Élisabeth

1,390 people were counted in Sainte-Élisabeth in the 2021 Census. The community covers 83.0 square kilometres of land.

On those two figures, density is 16.7 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

The community is the 531st largest place in the province within this census set.

Sainte-Élisabeth is one of 1150 places listed for Quebec, ranked 531 by population and measured at 83.0 square kilometres.

The Quebec rules that apply

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

For Quebec, the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) record that payday lending is not licensed, so the cost limit should be confirmed with the provincial regulator.

Communities of this size are listed here with population, land area and density, and the lending rules remain provincial.

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.

Payment history is reported to credit agencies, and that record is what builds or damages a credit file over time. Variable-rate products move with a reference rate, while fixed-rate products set the price for a defined term.

Products compared here

The site describes 20 products in total; the two below are representative of the range.

• Payday loans: Small, short-term advances against a pay date, the most tightly regulated product in Canadian consumer credit.
• No credit check loans: What lenders who advertise without a credit check actually look at instead, and where the cost goes.

The land area recorded for Sainte-Élisabeth is 83.0 square kilometres, and the population is 1,390 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

Sainte-Élisabeth sits at rank 531 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

At 1,390 residents in the 2021 Census, Sainte-Élisabeth is listed alongside the other covered places in Quebec.

The density figure for Sainte-Élisabeth, 16.7 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

Readers comparing Sainte-Élisabeth with another community can use the same four census fields.

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

Sainte-Élisabeth ranks 531 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

Sainte-Élisabeth appears in the census record with 1,390 residents, and the density of 16.7 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Sainte-Élisabeth is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 1,390 residents with a land area of 83.0 square kilometres.

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

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

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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).

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.