EECU is a Texas credit union lending mainly for home improvement and refinancing, and its originations fell 30% to 1,011 while similar lenders grew 9%.
A fall against growing peers
Originations fell 30% from 1,446, against growth of 9% at similar lenders (credit unions making between half and twice as many loans) and 10% for the whole market. Its dollar volume fell less, to $190.7 million from $216.7 million, as its typical loan rose to $115,000. One possible reason is lower demand for the home-improvement and refinance loans that make up most of its lending; another is a move toward larger loans.
Home improvement and refinancing lead
Home improvement was 37.3% of its originations, refinances 31.8%, other-purpose loans 18.4% and purchases 12.5%. Every loan was conventional, and its higher-priced share (a rate well above the average for similar loans) was 0.5%, against 1.6% at peers.
More loans in majority-minority areas, fewer to LMI borrowers
Majority-minority areas took 27.3% of its loans, against 10.4% at similar lenders, up from 18.5% five years before. LMI (low- and moderate-income) borrowers took 20.7%, against 27.9%; one possible reason is its mix, since home-improvement and refinance loans go to existing owners, who may have higher incomes than buyers.
Centred on Dallas-Fort Worth
It ranked 83 of 1,026 lenders in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, where it has lent since 1992; United Wholesale Mortgage and Rocket Mortgage led. Its lending covers 46 counties, all in Texas. Jumbo loans (larger than the conforming limit) were 5.5% of its lending, against 1.0% at peers.
Questions the data can answer next
Which loan purposes and counties account for its fall in originations?
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
1,011 loans in 2025, against a peak of 1,919 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. EECU took 1,969 applications in 2025.
37.3% of its 2025 loans were home improvement loans; 100.0% were Conventional.
Home improvement 37.3% · Refinance 31.8% · Other 18.4% · Purchase 12.5% Conventional 100.0% · of 1,011 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
1 state, 13 metros, 46 counties
State
Loans
Share
Texas
1,011
100.0%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Fort Worth-Arlington-Grapevine
766
Dallas-Plano-Irving
157
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
12
Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos
6
Sherman-Denison
4
Waco
4
San Antonio-New Braunfels
2
Amarillo
1
Corpus Christi
1
Longview
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300Z7KF7I03AULW22
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
820598
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
567928
1992–2017
Established 1 January 1934. Reported under HMDA 1992-2025.
Mergers, name changes, data editions and corrections: EECU's data.
The data and the software behind these pages
EECU's data
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EECU 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.
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