Community Bank & Trust, Waco, Texas lends far more in poorer and majority-minority neighborhoods than its peers, and ranks 14 of 368 lenders at home. But its volume fell in 2025.
Where its loans go
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) neighborhoods took 34.6% of its loans and majority-minority areas 36.6%, against 18.2% and 6.1% at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans). Both were higher than at more than eight in ten of those peers. It lends in just 3 counties, all in Texas, so their makeup shapes these shares.
A large repair book
Home improvement made up 25.0% of its lending, beside purchases at 49.1% and refinances at 22.3%. All its loans were conventional.
Shrinking since 2022
It made 112 loans, down 7% from 120, while similar lenders grew 9% and the whole market 10%. Its dollar total fell from $42.1 million to $28.7 million. Its count peaked at 204 in 2022 and has fallen each year since.
A smaller share in Waco
In Waco, TX, where it has lent since at least 1990, its share fell from 2.3% to 1.7%, in a market that grew. The fall matches its lower dollar total. SWBC Mortgage led the market.
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
112 loans in 2025, against a peak of 204 in 2022.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. Community Bank & Trust, Waco, Texas took 180 applications in 2025.
49.1% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; all were conventional loans.
Purchase 49.1% · Home improvement 25.0% · Refinance 22.3% · Other 3.6% Conventional 100.0% · of 112 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, 1 metro, 3 counties
State
Loans
Share
Texas
101
90.2%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Waco
101
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
25490070QB5LWJ9JID79
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
549862
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
317108
1990–2017
Established 14 May 1952. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
Community Bank & Trust, Waco, Texas 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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