Membership Statistics: Credit Counselling Services, Canada-Wide

Credit Counselling Canada member agencies have been helping Canadians for over 25 years. In the past five years alone, we have counselled over 150,000 people, helped our clients repay over $250 million to creditors and assisted hundreds of thousands more by providing information and education. Here are some recent statistics of note:

Annual Statistics to March 31, 2011

Credit Counselling Canada

Case Data

Number of New Clients Counselled           24,541

Number of New DMP/OPD Programs             4,233

Number of Additional Consumers Helped         213,487

Dollars Disbursed to Creditors        $70.8 M

Percentage of Clients Maintaining Payments             84%

Average Number of Creditors Per Case               5.7

Reasons Given For Indebtedness:

Employment/Income Issues/Job Loss             32%

Over-Extension of Credit             17%

Money Management Issues             14%

Relationship Breakdown             11%

Client Demographics

Average Client Age                44

Average Client Gross Monthly Income          $3,025

Percentage of Clients Renting Housing             67%

Average |Monthly Living Expenses          $2,011

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