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NCUA Quarterly U.S. Map Review - Third Quarter 2022

Introduction

The NCUA Quarterly U.S. Map Review for the third quarter of 2022 covers several key indicators of the financial health and viability of federally insured credit unions, including:1,2

  • 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 2021 through the third quarter of 2022. 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. 3

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 states of chartering or the states 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 2022 was 3.4 percent. In other words, half of all federally insured credit unions had asset growth at or above 3.4 percent and half had asset growth of 3.4 percent or less. In the year ending in the third quarter of 2021, the median growth rate in assets was 10.4 percent.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022, median asset growth was highest in Alaska (9.1 percent) and Wyoming (8.8 percent).
  • At the median, assets declined in Delaware (-0.2 percent) and New Jersey (-0.1 percent) and remained roughly unchanged in Washington, D.C.

Highlights

  • Nationally, median growth in shares and deposits over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022 was 3.7 percent. In the year ending in the third quarter of 2021, the median growth rate in shares and deposits was 11.5 percent.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022, median growth in shares and deposits was highest in Alaska (10.4 percent) and Idaho (7.8 percent).
  • At the median, shares and deposits remained roughly unchanged in Mississippi and grew the least in New Jersey (0.3 percent) and Washington, D.C. (1.4 percent) during that time.

Highlights

  • While overall membership in federally insured credit unions continued to grow during the year ending in the third quarter of 2022, at the median, membership declined 0.2 percent. Membership declined 0.4 percent at the median in the year ending in the third quarter of 2021. Overall, about 52 percent of federally insured credit unions had fewer members at the end of the third quarter of 2022 than a year earlier. Credit unions with falling membership tend to be small; over 60 percent had less than $50 million in assets in the third quarter of 2022.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022, credit unions headquartered in Alaska (4.6 percent) and Idaho (3.3 percent) experienced the strongest median membership growth.
  • At the median, membership declined in 26 states and Washington, D.C. over the year. Washington, D.C. (-1.5 percent) and Pennsylvania (-1.3 percent) saw the largest median declines in membership during that time. Membership was virtually unchanged in Wisconsin at the median.

Highlights

  • Nationally, loans outstanding rose 10.1 percent at the median over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022. During the previous year, loans grew 2.5 percent at the median.
  • Over the year ending in the third quarter of 2022, median loan growth was strongest in Idaho (19.3 percent) and Arizona (16.8 percent).
  • At the median, loans outstanding grew the least in Delaware (3.6 percent) and West Virginia (5.7 percent) during that time.

Highlights

  • At the end of the third quarter of 2022, the median total delinquency rate among federally insured credit unions was 40 basis points, compared with 34 basis points in the third quarter of 2021.
  • At the end of the third quarter of 2022, the median delinquency rate was highest in New Jersey (121 basis points) and Mississippi (92 basis points).
  • The median delinquency rate was lowest in Utah (15 basis points) and North Dakota (19 basis points) at that time.

Highlights

Loan-to-share ratios are rounded to the nearest percentage point.

  • Nationally, the median ratio of total loans outstanding to total shares and deposits (the loan-to-share ratio) was 61 percent at the end of the third quarter of 2022. At the end of the third quarter of 2021, the median loan-to-share ratio was 57 percent.
  • The median loan-to-share ratio was highest in Idaho (90 percent) and Utah (84 percent) at the end of the third quarter of 2022.
  • The median loan-to-share ratio was lowest in Delaware (39 percent) and New Jersey (41 percent) at that time.

Highlights

  • Nationally, the median annualized return on average assets at federally insured credit unions was 50 basis points in the first three quarters of 2022, compared with 56 basis points in the first three quarters of 2021.
  • Idaho (97 basis points) and South Carolina (77 basis points) had the highest median annualized returns on average assets in the first three quarters of 2022.
  • New Jersey (24 basis points) had the lowest median annualized return on average assets during that time, followed by Maryland and Nebraska (both 27 basis points).

Highlights

Shares of federally insured credit unions with positive net income are rounded to the nearest percentage point.

  • Nationally, 83 percent of federally insured credit unions had positive net income in the first three quarters of 2022, compared with 84 percent in the first three quarters of 2021.
  • At least 65 percent of federally insured credit unions in every state and Washington, D.C. had positive net income in the first three quarters of 2022.
  • The share of federally insured credit unions with positive net income was highest in Alaska and Vermont (both 100 percent), followed by Idaho (96 percent).
  • The share was lowest in Nebraska (68 percent) and Washington, D.C. (69 percent) in the first three quarters of 2022.

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Footnotes


1 Data are as of the 2022Q3 public release date. The definition of the “state” variable was modified with the 2022Q1 release.

2 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.

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

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