Borrowing in Sainte-Pétronille, Quebec

A loan taken out in Sainte-Pétronille is governed by Quebec's licensing rules, and the 2021 Census counted 1,055 people in the community.

The Quebec rules that apply

Consumer lending in Quebec is licensed provincially or territorially, and the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada publishes the list of provincial and territorial regulators where the current position appears.

For Quebec, the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) record that payday lending is not licensed, so the cost limit should be confirmed with the provincial regulator.

The lowest band groups villages, rural municipalities and small towns, all read against the same provincial rulebook.

How borrowing works locally

Disclosure requirements mean the cost of borrowing must be stated before an agreement is signed.

A deposit or trade-in reduces the amount financed and therefore the interest charged over the term. Provincial licensing decides who may lend, and federal rules add a ceiling where a licensed payday regime exists.

The census figures for Sainte-Pétronille

1,055 people were counted in Sainte-Pétronille in the 2021 Census. Its land area is 4.3 square kilometres.

On those two figures, density is 244.2 residents per square kilometre when rounded to one decimal place.

By population it ranks 638 among the Quebec places covered here.

Sainte-Pétronille is one of 1150 places listed for Quebec, ranked 638 by population and measured at 4.3 square kilometres.

Products compared here

The site describes 20 products in total; the two below are representative of the range.

• Collateral loans: Borrowing against an asset a lender will hold, from vehicles to savings, and what happens on default.
• Car loans: Financing a vehicle, including the effect of trade-in equity, negative equity and dealer-arranged credit.

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

Sainte-Pétronille is one of 1150 covered Quebec places, counted at 1,055 residents with a land area of 4.3 square kilometres.

The land area recorded for Sainte-Pétronille is 4.3 square kilometres, and the population is 1,055 residents in the 2021 Census.

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

Sainte-Pétronille sits at rank 638 within Quebec in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

The density figure for Sainte-Pétronille, 244.2 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

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

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

Readers comparing Sainte-Pétronille with another community can use the same four census fields.

Sainte-Pétronille appears in the census record with 1,055 residents, and the density of 244.2 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Sainte-Pétronille ranks 638 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Quebec.

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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.

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