Home repairs first
Home improvement made up 56.4% of its 39 loans in 2025 and purchases 30.8%. Its typical loan, $95,000, is near the middle of similar credit unions, those making between half and twice as many loans.
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New Orleans Firemens Federal Credit Union
Metairie, LA · Credit union · NCUA · $284 million assets · 39 loans in 2025
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39
loans originated, 2025
70
applications, 2025
2
states and territories
0
gaps bigger than at similar lenders
Our analysis, 2025
New Orleans Firemens Federal Credit Union is a small, steady lender that has made between 29 and 42 home loans a year since 2018, most of them for home improvement.
Long rooted at home
It has lent in New Orleans-Metairie since at least 1990. It holds 0.1% of that market, unchanged, ranking 157 of 371 lenders in a market led by Gulf Coast Bank and Trust Company. In Slidell-Mandeville-Covington its share rose 0.1 points.
More minority neighborhoods
Majority-minority neighborhoods took 18.4% of its loans, against 9.1% at similar credit unions, more than at about two-thirds of them. Its share of low- and moderate-income borrowers, 34.2%, is near the middle. With about 40 loans a year, these shares can move a lot from one year to the next.
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
39 loans in 2025, against a peak of 42 in 2022.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. New Orleans Firemens Federal Credit Union took 70 applications in 2025.
SOURCE: FFIEC HMDA, LOANS ORIGINATED (ACTION TAKEN: LOAN ORIGINATED)
FIG. 2 — PRODUCT MIX, 2025
56.4% of its 2025 loans were home improvement loans; all were conventional loans.
Home improvement 56.4% · Purchase 30.8% · Refinance 10.3% · Other 2.6%
Conventional 100.0% · of 39 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, 6 metros, 11 counties
| State | Loans | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Louisiana | 32 | 82.1% |
| Mississippi | 6 | 15.4% |
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
| Metro area | Loans |
|---|---|
| New Orleans-Metairie | 18 |
| Slidell-Mandeville-Covington | 11 |
| Baton Rouge | 2 |
| Hattiesburg | 2 |
| Gulfport-Biloxi | 1 |
| Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux | 1 |
Identifiers
| LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018) | 5493006GFSNOUCCL1W91 | 2018–2025 |
| RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents) | 54571 | 2004–2023 |
| Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018) | 56 | 1990–2017 |
Established 1 January 1934. Reported under HMDA 1990-2025.
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