Borrowing in Yamaska, Quebec

With 1,736 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Yamaska sits inside Quebec's provincial lending framework.

The Quebec rules that apply

The regulator for consumer credit in Quebec is the body listed by the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) provincial and territorial regulators.

Quebec is the province that does not license payday lending, so the federal cap that applies in licensed provinces has no provincial regime to sit inside.

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

The census figures for Yamaska

1,736 people were counted in Yamaska in the 2021 Census. 72.8 square kilometres of land are attributed to Yamaska.

On those two figures, density is 23.8 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

By population it ranks 454 among the Quebec places covered here.

The place record for Yamaska covers 72.8 square kilometres and 1,736 residents, a density of 23.8 people per square kilometre.

Products compared here

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

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How borrowing works locally

A consumer proposal or a bankruptcy is administered by a licensed insolvency trustee rather than by a lender.

Disclosure requirements mean the cost of borrowing must be stated before an agreement is signed. A payday advance is repaid on a pay date, while an instalment loan is repaid over a set number of payments.

At 1,736 residents in the 2021 Census, Yamaska is listed alongside the other covered places in Quebec.

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

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

The land area recorded for Yamaska is 72.8 square kilometres, and the population is 1,736 residents in the 2021 Census.

Yamaska appears in the census record with 1,736 residents, and the density of 23.8 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Yamaska sits at rank 454 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

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

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

The density figure for Yamaska, 23.8 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

Yamaska ranks 454 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

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

Yamaska is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 1,736 residents with a land area of 72.8 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.

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