Great Southern Bank is a Missouri bank with a broad mix of purchase, refinance, home improvement and other loans, whose loan count grew 6% in 2025 while the dollars it lent rose much faster.
Dollars rose faster than loans
It made 1,311 loans, up 6% from 1,241, slower than the 10% of the typical similar lender (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans). The dollars it lent rose from $272.6 million to $383.2 million, and its jumbo share (loans larger than the conforming limit) rose from 1.4% to 2.9%, so more larger loans may account for part of the increase.
A mixed book with smaller loans
Home purchases were 44.2% of its lending, refinances 24.0%, and home improvement and other-purpose loans 15.9% each. That mix may explain why its typical loan, $155,000, was lower than about seven in ten similar lenders, against $195,000 for the typical one.
Gaining in St. Louis, losing in Springfield
Its share in St. Louis, IL-MO rose from 0.3% to 0.6%, ranking 33 of 637. In Springfield, MO, a market it has served since before 1990, it ranked 8 of 351 but its share fell from 3.8% to 3.0%. That may reflect rivals growing faster there (Flat Branch Mortgage ranked first), or its own lending shifting toward St. Louis.
More LMI borrowers than most peers
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 32.5% of its loans, more than about seven in ten similar lenders and up from 25.4% five years earlier.
Questions the data can answer next
Which lenders gained the share it lost in Springfield, MO?
Which St. Louis counties drove its higher share there?
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
1,311 loans in 2025, against a peak of 2,814 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Great Southern Bank took 1,953 applications in 2025.
44.2% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 92.6% were Conventional.
Purchase 44.2% · Refinance 24.0% · Home improvement 15.9% · Other 15.9% Conventional 92.6% · FHA 4.8% · VA 1.6% · USDA (RHS or FSA) 1.0% · of 1,311 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
26 states, 49 metros, 159 counties
State
Loans
Share
Missouri
915
69.8%
Iowa
198
15.1%
Kansas
76
5.8%
Minnesota
31
2.4%
Nebraska
16
1.2%
Illinois
14
1.1%
Arkansas
12
0.9%
Florida
8
0.6%
North Carolina
7
0.5%
California
6
0.5%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Springfield
443
St. Louis
221
Kansas City
84
Sioux City
82
Des Moines-West Des Moines
53
Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington
30
Joplin
28
Davenport-Moline-Rock Island
21
Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers
9
Omaha
7
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
1TMVIO1SD0RLIPEIW803
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
572374
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
43641
1990–1997
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
329546
1999–2017
Established 1 January 1923. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Great Southern 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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