This Is How Many Canadians Missed Credit Payments in the First Quarter of 2025
- During the first quarter of 2025, approximately 1.4 million Canadians, equating to one in every 22 consumers, failed to make a scheduled credit payment.
- This rise stemmed from economic uncertainty, rising unemployment, high living costs, and mortgage stress, especially in Ontario where mortgage delinquency rates surged 72 percent year-over-year.
- Non-Mortgage delinquency rates grew 8.9 percent year-over-year, with credit card delinquencies up 21.7 percent and average monthly credit card spending down $107 per holder.
- Rebecca Oakes of Equifax Canada highlighted that missed payments are increasing notably among younger individuals and those with lower incomes, indicating growing financial difficulties within these demographics.
- These trends suggest increasing financial strain for younger Canadians and Ontario residents, which could heighten risks to consumer credit markets going forward.
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Equifax report says 1.4M consumers missed a credit payment in Q1
There's a deepening divide between consumers in the face of economic uncertainty as those missing payments rose compared with a year ago, a new Equifax report shows.
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Canadian non-mortgage delinquencies reached "levels not seen since 2009" in the first quarter, while mortgage delinquencies in Ontario hit the highest point ever recorded by Equifax, according to the credit bureau's latest Market Pulse Consumer Credit Trends and Insights report.In Ontario, the 90+ day mortgage delinquency rate rose to 0.24%, which marks a "substantial" 71.5% increase from a year ago, and British Columbia followed with a notable …
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