Borrowing in Rivière-Rouge, Quebec

With 4,631 residents counted in the 2021 Census, Rivière-Rouge sits inside Quebec's provincial lending framework.

The census figures for Rivière-Rouge

4,631 people were counted in Rivière-Rouge in the 2021 Census. The census records a land area of 451.4 square kilometres for Rivière-Rouge.

That gives a density of 10.3 people per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

Rivière-Rouge ranks 195 by population among the Quebec places on this site.

Within Quebec, Rivière-Rouge is place number 195 by population in this census set, at 4,631 residents.

The Quebec rules that apply

Provincial or territorial law decides who may lend in Quebec, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list that names the regulator responsible.

Payday lending is not licensed in Quebec; the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) list Quebec separately from the provinces that operate a licensed payday regime.

At the small end of the census range, the community still borrows inside the province's licensing system.

How borrowing works locally

Provincial licensing decides who may lend, and federal rules add a ceiling where a licensed payday regime exists.

Disclosure requirements mean the cost of borrowing must be stated before an agreement is signed. A consumer proposal or a bankruptcy is administered by a licensed insolvency trustee rather than by a lender.

Products compared here

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• Emergency loans: Money for an urgent expense, and the order in which a sensible borrower works through the options.
• Unsecured loans: Borrowing with no asset pledged, priced for the risk the lender is taking on your file alone.

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

Rivière-Rouge is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 4,631 residents with a land area of 451.4 square kilometres.

The land area recorded for Rivière-Rouge is 451.4 square kilometres, and the population is 4,631 residents in the 2021 Census.

The density figure for Rivière-Rouge, 10.3 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

Rivière-Rouge ranks 195 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

Readers comparing Rivière-Rouge with another community can use the same four census fields.

At 4,631 residents in the 2021 Census, Rivière-Rouge is listed alongside the other covered places in Quebec.

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

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

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

Rivière-Rouge sits at rank 195 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

Rivière-Rouge appears in the census record with 4,631 residents, and the density of 10.3 people per square kilometre follows from it.

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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).

The same structure is used for every place covered, so two communities can be compared field by field: population, land area, density, rank, and the provincial rules.