Borrowing in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories

This page covers borrowing in Fort Providence, Northwest Territories: the census facts, the provincial rules, and the products people compare.

How borrowing works locally

A provincial regulator publishes licensing requirements, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators.

Debt management plans are administered by accredited credit counsellors, and they are not loans. A payday advance is repaid on a pay date, while an instalment loan is repaid over a set number of payments.

Products compared here

These are two of the 20 products described on the site, and each has a national page as well as the provincial rules.

• Home equity loans: Converting property equity into credit, and the difference between a lump sum and a revolving limit.
• Payday loans: Small, short-term advances against a pay date, the most tightly regulated product in Canadian consumer credit.

The census figures for Fort Providence

Population for Fort Providence stands at 618 in the 2021 Census. The community covers 255.5 square kilometres of land.

Dividing population by land area gives 2.4 residents per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

By population it ranks 10 among the Northwest Territories places covered here.

The place record for Fort Providence covers 255.5 square kilometres and 618 residents, a density of 2.4 people per square kilometre.

The Northwest Territories rules that apply

Licensing for consumer credit in Northwest Territories sits with the province or territory, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada maintains the public list of provincial and territorial regulators.

Payday lending in Northwest Territories is not covered by a territory-specific rule, according to the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114), so the applicable cap should be confirmed with the territorial regulator.

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

Fort Providence sits at rank 10 within Northwest Territories in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

Fort Providence appears in the census record with 618 residents, and the density of 2.4 people per square kilometre follows from it.

The density figure for Fort Providence, 2.4 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

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

Fort Providence ranks 10 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Northwest Territories.

The land area recorded for Fort Providence is 255.5 square kilometres, and the population is 618 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

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

At 618 residents in the 2021 Census, Fort Providence is listed alongside the other covered places in Northwest Territories.

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

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).

The provincial rules apply wherever a borrower is in Northwest Territories; a municipal boundary does not change them.