Citizens 1st Bank, Tyler TX is a home-purchase lender that has lent in Tyler since at least 1990, and a quarter of its loans are in majority-minority neighborhoods, far more than at similar banks.
A quarter in minority neighborhoods
Majority-minority neighborhoods took 25.0% of its loans, against 6.8% at similar lenders, state member banks making between half and twice as many loans. That is more than at four in five of them. In 2020 the share was 24.3%, so this is a lasting feature of its lending. Low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods took 16.4%, near the middle.
Fewer loans
It made 68 loans, against 81 in 2024, a fall of 16%, while similar lenders grew 9%; its change was lower than at nearly nine in ten of them. It made 177 loans in 2020 and 154 in 2021. With 66.2% of its loans for home purchases, its volume may track home sales in its markets.
Smaller purchase loans
Its typical loan was $155,000, against $175,000 at similar lenders, lower than at about two-thirds of them. All of its loans were conventional.
Rooted in Tyler
It ranked 19 of 345 lenders in Tyler, with 1.2% of the market. United Wholesale Mortgage and Altra Federal Credit Union lead there. Its loans reach 3 states and 16 counties, including Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, Longview and Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands.
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
68 loans in 2025, against a peak of 177 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Citizens 1st Bank, Tyler TX took 100 applications in 2025.
66.2% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; all were conventional loans.
Purchase 66.2% · Refinance 16.2% · Home improvement 10.3% · Other 7.4% Conventional 100.0% · of 68 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
3 states, 8 metros, 16 counties
State
Loans
Share
Texas
66
97.1%
Alabama
1
1.5%
Colorado
1
1.5%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Tyler
30
Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands
3
Dallas-Plano-Irving
2
Longview
2
San Antonio-New Braunfels
2
Beaumont-Port Arthur
1
College Station-Bryan
1
Tuscaloosa
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
254900TSSJ6QLFK4C243
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
869663
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
31715
1992–2013
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
2869663
2014–2017
Established 24 April 1920. Reported under HMDA 1992-2025.
Citizens 1st Bank, Tyler TX 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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