Borrowing in Surrey, British Columbia

With 568,322 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Surrey sits inside British Columbia's provincial lending framework.

How borrowing works locally

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. A deposit or trade-in reduces the amount financed and therefore the interest charged over the term.

Products compared here

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

• Business loans: Commercial borrowing, what lenders read in a business file, and how the assessment differs from personal credit.
• Instalment loans: A fixed number of fixed payments, sized larger and longer than a payday advance.

The census figures for Surrey

Population for Surrey stands at 568,322 in the 2021 Census. Its land area is 316.1 square kilometres.

Dividing population by land area gives 1797.9 residents per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

Surrey ranks 2 by population among the British Columbia places on this site.

Surrey sits at rank 2 among the 460 British Columbia places here, with 568,322 residents in the 2021 Census.

The British Columbia rules that apply

Consumer credit in British Columbia 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, cap the cost of borrowing at $14 per $100 advanced in British Columbia, which the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) list as a province that regulates the product.

The largest band covers the biggest cities, where the same provincial rules apply as in the smallest village.

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

Surrey is one of 460 covered British Columbia places, counted at 568,322 residents with a land area of 316.1 square kilometres.

Surrey sits at rank 2 within British Columbia in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

Surrey appears in the census record with 568,322 residents, and the density of 1797.9 people per square kilometre follows from it.

The land area recorded for Surrey is 316.1 square kilometres, and the population is 568,322 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

At 568,322 residents in the 2021 Census, Surrey is listed alongside the other covered places in British Columbia.

The density figure for Surrey, 1797.9 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

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

Surrey ranks 2 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in British Columbia.

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Population and land area figures come from Statistics Canada's 2021 Census of Population; regulatory statements are attributed to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

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