Carrollton Bank is a home-purchase lender centred on St. Louis and Springfield, Illinois, whose lending to low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers was higher than at nearly all similar banks.
A purchase lender with wide reach
Home purchases were 68.7% of its loans, refinances 16.6%. It lent in 24 states and 36 metros, and first lent in non-metro Massachusetts, Baltimore-Columbia-Towson and Portland-South Portland in 2025. Originations rose 8% to 1,334, close to similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), whose typical growth was 10%.
Among the highest LMI lending
LMI borrowers took 40.6% of its loans, against 27.6% at similar lenders, higher than about nineteen in twenty of them. Its 22.9% share in LMI areas was higher than more than four in five peers, whose typical share was 14.7%. Both are up from five years before, when they were 28.2% and 14.3%.
Steady in St. Louis, rising in Springfield
It ranked 16 of 637 lenders in St. Louis, with 1.6% of lending, the same as a year before, and has lent there since before 1990. In Springfield, IL it ranked 9 of 217, with 2.8%, up from 2.5%. In Traverse City, MI its share rose to 0.4%.
More government-backed lending than peers
Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) were 3.4% of its lending and loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 2.4%, against 2.3% and 0.7% at peers. Its purchase denial rate, 5.4%, was close to peers' 5.9%, and 0.9% of its loans were higher-priced (a rate well above the average for similar loans), against 1.5%.
Questions the data can answer next
Which counties and borrowers account for its LMI lending around St. Louis and Springfield?
Similar lenders: same lender type, originations between half and twice the lender's in the data year.
Written from the 2025 HMDA data and checked figure by figure against it.
FIG. 1 — LOANS ORIGINATED, 2018–2025
1,334 loans in 2025, against a peak of 3,890 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Carrollton Bank took 1,655 applications in 2025.
68.7% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 93.6% were Conventional.
Purchase 68.7% · Refinance 16.6% · Home improvement 8.5% · Other 6.2% Conventional 93.6% · FHA 3.4% · VA 2.4% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 0.5% · of 1,334 loans. Purchase: buying a home. Refinance: replacing an existing mortgage, including cash-out. FHA: insured by the Federal Housing Administration. VA: guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Conventional: neither.
SOURCE: FFIEC HMDA 2025, LOANS ORIGINATED
Where it lends, 2025
24 states, 36 metros, 83 counties
State
Loans
Share
Missouri
673
50.4%
Illinois
616
46.2%
Florida
12
0.9%
Colorado
3
0.2%
Tennessee
3
0.2%
Arizona
2
0.1%
Indiana
2
0.1%
Kentucky
2
0.1%
Michigan
2
0.1%
Ohio
2
0.1%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
St. Louis
1,107
Springfield
95
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
3
Naples-Marco Island
3
North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota
3
Cape Coral-Fort Myers
2
Champaign-Urbana
2
Dallas-Plano-Irving
2
Denver-Aurora-Centennial
2
Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler
2
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300CP7747DCRW6U68
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
1001648
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
312383
1990–2017
Established 1 January 1877. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Carrollton Bank and its peers, 2018–2025: every application in the HMDA data, cleaned and corrected, as Parquet files, with the Jenner programs that made these pages.
Every mortgage application reported under HMDA from 1990 to 2025, cleaned and corrected, every lender followed across name changes and mergers, with the market-share and fair-lending tables behind these pages and the Jenner programs that built them: the warehouse and the datamart, as Parquet files.
Jenner runs programs written in the SAS language. It drew every chart on these pages and fitted the fair-lending model, PROC GLIMMIX on 3.5 million applications. Run the programs that come with the data, or your own.