Rooted in poorer places
Similar lenders here means banks of the same type making between half and twice as many loans. At the middle of that group, 17.3% of loans went to low- and moderate-income neighborhoods; at United Cumberland Bank it was 61.4%, the highest in the group. Its largest markets are non-metro Kentucky and non-metro Tennessee, where such neighborhoods may simply make up much of the map. Its share of low- and moderate-income borrowers, 29.9%, is near the middle.