St. Lucie County

Florida · FIPS 12111

According to CFPB HMDA 2024 application volume among U.S. counties, St. Lucie County ranks #99 of 3,223, and #16 of 67 in Florida.

Mortgage lending activity in St. Lucie County, Florida based on lender filings under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Data covers all applications received by HMDA-reporting institutions operating in this county during 2024. Why mortgages get denied walks the denial-reason codes that appear in books like this one.

Local mortgage market. St. Lucie County, Florida lenders denied 4,949 of the applications reported here, financing the rest at an average note rate of 6.93%, with applicants self-reporting average annual income of $42K. 467 distinct institutions reported mortgage activity in this county.

Borrower leverage and affordability signal. The loan-to-income ratio averages 6.6x, meaning typical borrowers took on mortgages of about 6.6 times their annual income. That ratio is a rough affordability signal: higher multiples imply tighter monthly budgets and greater exposure to rate or income shocks. See our methodology for how to read the denial rate against a local applicant pool. This page is informational data reporting, not financial, legal, or mortgage advice.

24,640
Applications
10,702
Originated
20.1%
Denial Rate
$277,474
Avg Loan Amount

Lender concentration in St. Lucie County

Top-1 share
11.5%
Top-3 share
22.1%
Book band
Balanced book

In St. Lucie County, lead originator United Wholesale Mortgage funded 11.5% of 10,702 originated loans, in the middle tercile of U.S. counties (~10.9-16.7% top-1). The top three reporters together hold 22.1% of the book; a local credit union or regional bank still sits beside the national wholesalers.

Counties With Similar Application Volume

Nationwide counties nearest to St. Lucie County's 24,640 HMDA applications.

Counties With a Similar Average Loan

Nationwide counties nearest to St. Lucie County's $277,474 average loan (deduped against volume peers).

Lenders active in St. Lucie County

United Wholesale Mortgage funded 1,230 of the 10,702 loans originated in St. Lucie County, 11.5% of the county. 467 lenders reported activity here.

Every figure on PlainLender is rendered directly from CFPB HMDA federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. For St. Lucie County, from the FFIEC/CFPB HMDA Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset (2024) -- county FIPS codes follow U.S. Census Bureau standards. Not financial advice for St. Lucie County borrowers. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of 2026-08-10. HMDA figures are lender-filed application outcomes for a published reporting year - not creditworthiness scores, rate quotes, Loan Estimates, underwriting decisions, or mortgage advice.