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El Paso, TX

FIPS 48141. In 2024, lenders decided 17,418 mortgage applications here and denied 4,596 of them (26.4%, against a national 24.3%). They originated 11,953 loans worth $2.9B, at a median loan of $225,000 and a median reported applicant income of $93,000. Among the 1,764 counties with 500 or more decisioned applications, this one ranks 100 by volume and 487 by denial rate.

17,418
Decisioned applications
2024, rank 100 of 1,764
26.4%
Denial rate
national 24.3%
$225,000
Median originated loan
national $235,000
$265,000
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, El PasoDenial 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 8,447 screened applications in this county: first-lien, owner-occupied, site-built, one-unit home purchases. These are raw rates. Here the Black rate is 12.1% and the White non-Hispanic rate 6.2%, a difference of 5.9 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, Hispanic or Latino4,9424639.4%
Race not available1,40716311.6%
White, non-Hispanic806506.2%
Black or African American3734512.1%
White, ethnicity not reported357205.6%
Joint (race)2423012.4%
Asian2032110.3%
American Indian or Alaska Native8513n/a
Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander181n/a
Two or more minority races120n/a
Free-form text only20n/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 4,596 denials in this county in 2024. The national distribution is on the denials page. Methodology

Who lends here, 2024

325 distinct institutions originated a loan in this county in 2024. The largest made 11.3% of them. Lenders are identified by Legal Entity Identifier: the public register does not carry the institution’s name.

#LEIOriginations hereShare of county
1549300IV3BQZRSE82O161,35011.3%
2549300HW662MN1WU85508947.5%
35493004AS1SPBQOFDR495894.9%
4549300FGXN1K3HLB1R505784.8%
5549300GKFNPRWNS0GF295174.3%

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 11,953 originations in 2024. Nationally, FHA-insured loans were 13.4% of originations. Median contract rate here: 6.62%, 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/TX.