Flanagan State Bank is a small Illinois bank that lends in 30 states and makes more than half its loans with government backing, far more than similar banks.
Mostly government-backed home purchases
Loans insured by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) were 30.6% of its loans, against 1.5% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans); loans guaranteed by the Department of Agriculture's Rural Housing Service (RHS) 19.1%, the highest among them; and loans guaranteed by the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) 5.4%. Conventional loans were 44.8%, against 96.9%. Purchases were 82.9%.
A footprint far beyond Illinois
It lent in 30 states and 239 counties. Its largest markets were non-metro Missouri, where it ranked 36 of 640, Chicago-Naperville-Elgin (252 of 902) and non-metro Iowa (46 of 465). In Reading, PA it ranked 35 of 365 with a 0.8% share, unchanged. Originations were flat at 1,140, close to its 1,142 of 2024, while peers typically grew 10%.
More low- and moderate-income borrowers
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 46.8% of its loans, against 26.8% at peers, higher than nearly all of them, and LMI areas 18.1%, against 14.7%. The government programmes behind most of its loans are one possible reason.
Denials and price reflect its loan mix
Its purchase denial rate was 11.6% and its refinance rate 26.4%, against 5.9% and 15.4% at peers; higher-priced loans (a rate well above the average for similar loans) were 5.7%, against 1.6%. With government-backed loans over half its lending, its applicants and products differ from theirs, a possible reason for both.
Questions the data can answer next
How do Flanagan State Bank's FHA and RHS volumes compare with other lenders in non-metro Missouri and Iowa?
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
1,140 loans in 2025, against a peak of 3,028 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Flanagan State Bank took 1,648 applications in 2025.
82.9% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 44.8% were Conventional.
Purchase 82.9% · Refinance 17.0% · Other 0.1% Conventional 44.8% · FHA 30.6% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 19.1% · VA 5.4% · of 1,140 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
30 states, 65 metros, 239 counties
State
Loans
Share
Illinois
297
26.1%
Missouri
278
24.4%
Iowa
176
15.4%
Pennsylvania
97
8.5%
Indiana
76
6.7%
Colorado
43
3.8%
Montana
31
2.7%
Texas
25
2.2%
Minnesota
21
1.8%
Arkansas
17
1.5%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Reading
83
Chicago-Naperville-Schaumburg
65
Bloomington
53
Omaha
50
Peoria
48
St. Joseph
40
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island
29
Lafayette-West Lafayette
23
Bozeman
19
Kankakee
19
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
2549008LUH7QKMXQ8N53
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
979133
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
311734
1997–2017
Established 1 January 1913. Reported under HMDA 1997-2025.
Flanagan State 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.
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