On June 16, 2022, the FFIEC announced the availability of data on 2021 mortgage lending transactions reported under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) by 4,338 U.S. financial institutions. Covered institutions include banks, savings associations, credit unions, and mortgage companies.
Key observations from the Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset include:
For 2021, the number of reporting institutions declined by about 3.1 percent from 4,475 in the previous year to 4,338.
The 2021 data include information on 23.3 million home loan applications. Among them, 21.1 million were closed-end and 1.8 million were open-end. The other 350,000 records did not indicate whether the records were closed-end or open-end.
The share of mortgages originated by non-depository, independent mortgage companies has increased and, in 2021, accounted for 63.9 percent of first lien, one- to four-family, site-built, owner-occupied home-purchase loans, up from 60.7 percent in 2020.
The share of closed-end home purchase loans for first lien, one- to four-family, site-built, owner-occupied properties made to Black or African American borrowers rose from 7.3 percent in 2020 to 7.9 percent in 2021, the share made to Hispanic-White borrowers increased slightly from 9.1 percent to 9.2 percent, and those made to Asian borrowers increased from 5.5 percent to 7.1 percent.
In 2021, Black or African American and Hispanic-White applicants experienced denial rates for first lien, one- to four-family, site-built, owner-occupied conventional, closed-end home purchase loans of 15.7 percent and 9.8 percent respectively, while the denial rates for Asian and non-Hispanic-White applicants were 7.5 percent and 5.6 percent respectively.
The FFIEC also released other data products to serve a variety of data users including The HMDA Dynamic National Loan-Level Dataset, Aggregate and Disclosure Reports, and The HMDA Data Browser.
Read the FFIEC’s press release here.
The Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset can be found here.