Jonestown Bank and Trust Company, of Jonestown, Pennsylvania lends far more often in low- and moderate-income and majority-minority areas than similar lenders do, and its loans rose 19% in 2025.
More loans in poorer areas
Of its 129 loans, 33.3% were in low- and moderate-income (LMI) areas, against 17.5% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans), higher than more than four in five of them. Majority-minority areas took 25.6%, against 5.9%, up from 4.8% in 2020. Loans to LMI borrowers were 34.4%.
A fixture in Lebanon
In Lebanon, PA, where it has lent since at least 1990, it ranked 14 of 213 lenders with 2.2% of lending, against 2.3% the year before. CrossCountry Mortgage led there. Its share in Lancaster, PA rose to 0.3%.
Conventional, and a bit larger
Purchases made up 64.3% of its lending and refinances 31.8%. Almost every loan, 97.7%, was conventional. Its typical loan was $215,000, against $175,000 at similar lenders.
Growing, but well below 2020
Originations rose 19% to 129, faster than similar lenders' 9% and the whole market's 10%. That is still about a third of the 376 loans it made in 2020.
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
129 loans in 2025, against a peak of 376 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Jonestown Bank and Trust Company, of Jonestown, Pennsylvania took 157 applications in 2025.
64.3% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; 97.7% were conventional loans.
Purchase 64.3% · Refinance 31.8% · Home improvement 3.9% Conventional 97.7% · FHA 1.6% · VA 0.8% · of 129 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
2 states, 8 metros, 11 counties
State
Loans
Share
Pennsylvania
128
99.2%
Delaware
1
0.8%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Lebanon
63
Lancaster
27
Harrisburg-Carlisle
11
York-Hanover
10
Reading
8
Montgomery County-Bucks County-Chester County
3
Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton
1
Philadelphia
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300P7T76AWIP6QL35
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
653611
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
310677
1990–2017
Established 1 January 1873. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Jonestown Bank and Trust Company, of Jonestown, Pennsylvania's data
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