Borrowing in Dégelis, Quebec

This page covers borrowing in Dégelis, Quebec: the census facts, the provincial rules, and the products people compare.

The census figures for Dégelis

Statistics Canada's 2021 Census gives Dégelis a population of 2,884. Its land area is 556.8 square kilometres.

The arithmetic gives 5.2 people per square kilometre.

Among covered Quebec places, Dégelis sits at rank 289 by population.

Dégelis is one of 1150 places listed for Quebec, ranked 289 by population and measured at 556.8 square kilometres.

Products compared here

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

• Instalment loans: A fixed number of fixed payments, sized larger and longer than a payday advance.
• Secured loans: Borrowing against an asset, which lowers the price but puts the asset at risk if you default.

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.

The federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) are explicit that Quebec does not license payday lending, which changes which rules a short-term advance falls under.

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

How borrowing works locally

A shorter term raises each payment and lowers the total interest, which is the trade every schedule makes.

A payday advance is repaid on a pay date, while an instalment loan is repaid over a set number of payments. A broker arranges credit but does not lend, and the lender remains the party that makes the decision.

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

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

The density figure for Dégelis, 5.2 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

The land area recorded for Dégelis is 556.8 square kilometres, and the population is 2,884 residents in the 2021 Census.

At 2,884 residents in the 2021 Census, Dégelis is listed alongside the other covered places in Quebec.

Dégelis appears in the census record with 2,884 residents, and the density of 5.2 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Dégelis is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 2,884 residents with a land area of 556.8 square kilometres.

Dégelis sits at rank 289 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

Dégelis ranks 289 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

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

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

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

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).

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