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NCUA Quarterly U.S. Map Review - Third Quarter 2017

The NCUA Quarterly U.S. Map Review for the third quarter of 2017 covers several key indicators of the financial health and viability of federally insured credit unions, including:1

  • Median four-quarter growth in assets,
  • Median four-quarter growth in shares and deposits,
  • Median four-quarter growth in members,
  • Median four-quarter growth in loans,
  • Median delinquent loans as a share of total loans,
  • Median loans outstanding as a share of total shares and deposits,
  • Median year-to-date return on average assets, and
  • Share of federally insured credit unions with positive year-to-date net income.

Four-quarter growth is the growth from the end of the third quarter of 2016 through the third quarter of 2017. Most maps shown in this review display medians, or the 50th percentile of the distribution of the variable. In other words, for a given metric, half of all credit unions had a value at or above the median, while the other half had a value that was less than or equal to the median.2

Data presented in this review are rounded. Unless otherwise noted, indicators in percentages are rounded to the nearest tenth of a percentage point, while indicators in basis points are rounded to the nearest basis point. In the legends, the data range in each color band excludes the value of the lower bound but includes the value of the upper bound of the range. Credit unions are included in their state of chartering or the state in which their headquarters are located.

NCUA makes information about the financial performance of federally insured credit unions available through its online Research a Credit Union tool. Through this link, you can locate information contained in an individual credit union’s Call Report as well as obtain a Financial Performance Report and summary documents about a credit union’s performance.

For comments or suggestions about the NCUA Quarterly U.S. Map Review, please send an email to ocemail@ncua.gov.

Highlights

  • Nationally, median asset growth over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017 was 2.9 percent. In other words, half of all federally insured credit unions had asset growth at or above 2.9 percent and half had asset growth of 2.9 percent or less. In the year ending in the third quarter of 2016, the median growth rate in assets was 4.2 percent.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017, median asset growth was highest in Idaho (8.3 percent), followed by Vermont (6.2 percent).
  • Median asset growth was negative in the District of Columbia (-1.0 percent) over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017. At the median, assets grew the least in Louisiana (0.3 percent) and Arkansas (0.4 percent).

Highlights

  • Nationally, median growth in shares and deposits over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017 was 2.8 percent. In the year ending in the third quarter of 2016, the median growth rate in shares and deposits was 4.5 percent.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017, median growth in shares and deposits was highest in Washington (6.3 percent) and Vermont (5.9 percent).
  • Median growth in shares and deposits was negative in Louisiana (-0.1 percent) over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017. At the median, shares and deposits remained unchanged in the District of Columbia and grew the least in Arkansas and New Jersey (both 0.5 percent).

Highlights

  • While overall membership in federally insured credit unions continued to grow in the year ending in the third quarter of 2017, at the median, membership was unchanged. Membership declined 0.1 percent at the median over the previous year. Overall, half of federally insured credit unions had fewer members at the end of the third quarter of 2017 than a year earlier. Credit unions with falling membership tend to be small; about 75 percent had less than $50 million in assets.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017, Arizona had the highest median membership growth rate (2.5 percent), followed by Washington (2.4 percent).
  • In 22 states, the median membership growth rate for federally insured credit unions was negative. At the median, membership declined the most in the District of Columbia (-1.8 percent), followed by Pennsylvania (-1.2 percent).

Highlights

  • Nationally, the median growth rate in loans outstanding was 5.0 percent over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017. The median loan growth rate during the previous year was 3.9 percent.
  • At the median, loans outstanding rose in each state over the year ending in the third quarter of 2017. The highest median growth rate in loans outstanding was in Nevada (12.3 percent), followed by Oregon (11.8 percent).
  • Median loan growth was slowest in Wyoming (0.2 percent), followed by New Jersey (0.3 percent).

Highlights

  • At the end of the third quarter of 2017, the median total delinquency rate among federally insured credit unions was 72 basis points, compared to 73 basis points in the third quarter of 2016.
  • At the end of the third quarter of 2017, the median delinquency rate was highest in New Jersey (172 basis points), followed by Alaska (131 basis points).
  • The median delinquency rate was lowest in Oregon (32 basis points), followed by Minnesota and Colorado (both 35 basis points).

Highlights

Loans-to-shares ratios are rounded to the nearest percentage point.

  • Nationally, the median ratio of total loans outstanding to total shares and deposits (the loans-to-shares ratio) was 65 percent at the end of the third quarter of 2017. At the end of the third quarter of 2016, the median loans-to-shares ratio was 63 percent.
  • The median loans-to-shares ratio was highest in Idaho (89 percent), followed by Vermont (87 percent).
  • The median loans-to-shares ratio was lowest in Delaware (48 percent), followed by New Jersey, Hawaii, and Pennsylvania (all 50 percent).

Highlights

  • Nationally, the median annualized return on average assets at federally insured credit unions was 39 basis points during the first three quarters of 2017, compared to 37 basis points during the first three quarters of 2016.
  • Nevada (83 basis points) had the highest median return on average assets during the first three quarters of 2017, followed by Vermont and Utah (both 73 basis points).
  • The District of Columbia (13 basis points) had the lowest median return on average assets, followed by Delaware (21 basis points).

Highlights

Shares on this page are rounded to the nearest percentage point.

  • Nationally, 81 percent of federally insured credit unions had positive net income during the first three quarters of 2017, compared to 80 percent in the first three quarters of 2016.
  • At least 55 percent of credit unions in every state had positive net income during the first three quarters of 2017.
  • The share of federally insured credit unions with positive net income was highest in Nevada (100 percent), followed by Oregon (97 percent).
  • The share was lowest in the District of Columbia (55 percent), followed by Arkansas and Delaware (both 67 percent).

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Footnotes


1 Overseas territories—Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands— are included in the calculations of the U.S. statistics and the maps and reported in the summary indicators tables at the end of this report. Due to the small number of credit unions in each, however, they are not represented in the text.

2 Technically, by construction of the median, there can be several credit unions “tied” at the median value.

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