Borrowing in Meadow Lake, Saskatchewan

Meadow Lake is one of the Saskatchewan places covered here, with 5,322 residents recorded in the 2021 Census and the same provincial rulebook as the rest of the province.

The Saskatchewan rules that apply

Consumer credit in Saskatchewan 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, cap the cost of borrowing 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 in Saskatchewan, which the federal Payday Lending Regulations (SOR/2024-114) list as a province that regulates the product.

In the lower-middle band, pages carry the census figures for the place and the same provincial lending position as larger centres.

How borrowing works locally

Joint applications combine two incomes and two sets of obligations in the same assessment.

A lender may ask for proof of address, and a permanent address is a standard requirement for consumer credit. A lender is free to set its own price below the legal ceiling, and it does so according to the risk it reads in the file.

The census figures for Meadow Lake

5,322 people were counted in Meadow Lake in the 2021 Census. Statistics Canada lists 12.4 square kilometres of land for the community.

That gives a density of 430.2 people per square kilometre, rounded to one decimal place.

Meadow Lake ranks 16 by population among the Saskatchewan places on this site.

Meadow Lake is one of 733 places listed for Saskatchewan, ranked 16 by population and measured at 12.4 square kilometres.

Products compared here

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

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

Meadow Lake ranks 16 by 2021 Census population among the covered places in Saskatchewan.

The density figure for Meadow Lake, 430.2 people per square kilometre, is calculated from the population and land area above.

At 5,322 residents in the 2021 Census, Meadow Lake is listed alongside the other covered places in Saskatchewan.

Meadow Lake is one of 733 covered Saskatchewan places, counted at 5,322 residents with a land area of 12.4 square kilometres.

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

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

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

The land area recorded for Meadow Lake is 12.4 square kilometres, and the population is 5,322 residents in the 2021 Census.

Meadow Lake appears in the census record with 5,322 residents, and the density of 430.2 people per square kilometre follows from it.

Meadow Lake sits at rank 16 within Saskatchewan in this data set, and the provincial rules apply as they do elsewhere.

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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).

Compare the disclosure on any agreement against the provincial ceiling, and treat the census figures as the only local statistics on the page.