The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, Indiana is a small-loan lender, with more than a fifth of its loans going to home improvement.
Smaller loans than its peers
Home improvement made up 21.3% of its loans in 2025 and other purposes 10.6%. Such loans tend to be small, which may help explain a typical loan of $125,000 against $180,000 at similar lenders (state non-member banks making between half and twice as many loans). That is lower than about four in five of them. Manufactured homes, 6.3% of its loans against 2.3% for peers, point the same way.
Shrinking while others grew
Its loans fell 6% to 348, while similar lenders grew 9% and the whole market 10%. The record since 2018 has no steady trend: 269 loans in 2018, 454 in 2020, 452 in 2022. One soft year at a lender of this size is a small move.
Settled in central Indiana
It has lent in Lafayette and Indianapolis since 1991 and in Kokomo since 1993. It holds 0.3% of Kokomo's market, 50th of 209 lenders, and 0.2% of Lafayette's, 54th of 267, both unchanged from 2024. Its share of Indianapolis rose a little.
Typical reach to poorer borrowers
Low- and moderate-income (LMI) borrowers took 28.8% of its loans, close to peers' 28.4%. LMI neighborhoods took 13.8%, below peers' 16.5% but up from 6.4% in 2020. The lower neighborhood share may reflect the mix of tracts in the Indiana markets it serves.
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
348 loans in 2025, against a peak of 454 in 2020.
Originated means the loan was made: applications denied, withdrawn or not accepted are not counted. The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, Indiana took 431 applications in 2025.
43.1% of its 2025 loans were purchase loans; all were conventional loans.
Purchase 43.1% · Refinance 25.0% · Home improvement 21.3% · Other 10.6% Conventional 100.0% · of 348 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
6 states, 11 metros, 30 counties
State
Loans
Share
Indiana
340
97.7%
Florida
3
0.9%
Georgia
1
0.3%
Illinois
1
0.3%
South Carolina
1
0.3%
Tennessee
1
0.3%
Largest metro areas, 2025
Loans originated
Metro area
Loans
Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood
172
Lafayette-West Lafayette
17
Kokomo
8
Bloomington
1
Cape Coral-Fort Myers
1
Hilton Head Island-Bluffton-Port Royal
1
Lake County-Porter County-Jasper County
1
Muncie
1
Naples-Marco Island
1
Nashville-Davidson--Murfreesboro--Franklin
1
Identifiers
LEI (Legal Entity Identifier, the global company code HMDA has used since 2018)
549300VIKSC6B00SLF36
2018–2025
RSSD (the Federal Reserve's identifier for banks and their parents)
423449
2004–2023
Respondent ID (the HMDA filer code before 2018)
312828
1991–2017
Established 1 January 1876. Reported under HMDA 1991-2025.
The Farmers Bank, Frankfort, Indiana 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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