Borrowing in Thompson, Manitoba

Thompson, Manitoba, recorded a population of 1,518 in the 2021 Census; the rules that govern a loan signed there are provincial.

Products compared here

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

• 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.

How borrowing works locally

Variable-rate products move with a reference rate, while fixed-rate products set the price for a defined term.

A provincial regulator publishes licensing requirements, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators. A payday advance is repaid on a pay date, while an instalment loan is repaid over a set number of payments.

The Manitoba rules that apply

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

A payday advance in Manitoba falls under a provincial licensing regime, and the cost of borrowing is capped at $14 per $100 under the federal limit (this province's own published limit is $17 per $100 advanced, the top of the range the Regulations describe) advanced according to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114).

Small places are covered the same way as large ones: census figures for the place, and the provincial position on lending.

The census figures for Thompson

Statistics Canada's 2021 Census gives Thompson a population of 1,518. The community covers 531.2 square kilometres of land.

The arithmetic gives 2.9 people per square kilometre.

Thompson ranks 106 by population among the Manitoba places on this site.

Thompson sits at rank 106 among the 203 Manitoba places here, with 1,518 residents in the 2021 Census.

Thompson appears in the census record with 1,518 residents, and the density of 2.9 people per square kilometre follows from it.

At 1,518 residents in the 2021 Census, Thompson is listed alongside the other covered places in Manitoba.

Thompson sits at rank 106 within Manitoba in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

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

The land area recorded for Thompson is 531.2 square kilometres, and the population is 1,518 residents in the 2021 Census.

Thompson is one of 203 covered Manitoba places, counted at 1,518 residents with a land area of 531.2 square kilometres.

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

The density figure for Thompson, 2.9 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

Thompson ranks 106 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Manitoba.

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

loanmoose.ca is not a lender and does not make credit decisions. The lowest rates are only available to the most qualified applicants.

The 2021 Census of Population published by Statistics Canada is the source for population and land area; the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) are the source for payday rules.

Nothing here is an offer, and no page on this site can tell anyone what a lender will decide.