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Lending / county

San Diego, CA

FIPS 06073. In 2024, lenders decided 66,453 mortgage applications here and denied 16,455 of them (24.8%, against a national 24.3%). They originated 46,550 loans worth $30.1B, at a median loan of $505,000 and a median reported applicant income of $182,000. Among the 1,764 counties with 500 or more decisioned applications, this one ranks 7 by volume and 673 by denial rate.

66,453
Decisioned applications
2024, rank 7 of 1,764
24.8%
Denial rate
national 24.3%
$505,000
Median originated loan
national $235,000
$925,000
Median property value
2024, originated loans

Volume and denials, 2018 to 2024

Decisioned applicationsOriginationsDenials

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files County of the property, as reported. The county universe is fixed on 2024: a county is on this page because it cleared 500 decisioned applications in 2024, and its earlier years are shown whatever their size. Methodology

Denial rate, San DiegoDenial rate, United States

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files Denials as a share of decisioned applications, the same definition on both lines. Methodology

Denial rate by applicant group, 2024

On the 20,326 screened applications in this county: first-lien, owner-occupied, site-built, one-unit home purchases. These are raw rates. Here the Black rate is 14.7% and the White non-Hispanic rate 8.3%, a difference of 6.4 pp. That difference is not adjusted for debt load, leverage, product or income. Nationally, reweighting on those four accounts for 44.0% of the Black/White gap; see the standardization. A group with fewer than 100 screened applications shows its count and no rate.

Applicant groupScreened appsDeniedDenial rate
White, non-Hispanic6,8455678.3%
Race not available4,66052311.2%
Asian3,3162818.5%
White, Hispanic or Latino2,39731213.0%
White, ethnicity not reported1,1991038.6%
Joint (race)1,136746.5%
Black or African American5247714.7%
American Indian or Alaska Native12386.5%
Two or more minority races656n/a
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander617n/a

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files Screened applications only, so these counts are smaller than the county's decisioned total. Race is reported on some applications and not others; the 'race not available' row is where it is not. Methodology

Why applications were denied, 2024

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files Primary denial reason on the 16,455 denials in this county in 2024. The national distribution is on the denials page. Methodology

Who lends here, 2024

606 distinct institutions originated a loan in this county in 2024. The largest made 14.3% of them. Lenders are identified by Legal Entity Identifier: the public register does not carry the institution’s name.

#LEIOriginations hereShare of county
1549300HW662MN1WU85506,66114.3%
2549300FGXN1K3HLB1R503,3017.1%
35493003GQDUH26DNNH172,3455.0%
46BYL5QZYBDK8S7L73M021,7843.8%
5549300DXSALP2TGZBQ161,6003.4%

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files The largest originators in this county, 5 shown. A lender page exists only for the 300 largest reporters nationally; the others are printed as plain identifiers, not as links to pages that do not exist. Methodology

Product mix, 2024

Source: HMDA public LAR (CFPB/FFIEC), snapshot files Shares of this county's 46,550 originations in 2024. Nationally, FHA-insured loans were 13.4% of originations. Median contract rate here: 6.99%, national 6.88%. Methodology

County codes are not stable. The register carries the county FIPS the lender reported. Codes change: Connecticut replaced its eight counties with nine planning regions, and the 2024 file uses the new codes. Every county on this layer was checked against a FIPS reference before it was given a page, and a county present in one year is not assumed to be present in the next. The state-level series for this state is on /mortgage/CA.