LEI 2549006HJBA7HTOZF285 · SPRINGFIELD, MA
Freedom Credit Union
Denial sits in the upper fleet tercile at 24.8% across 407 HMDA applications, a stricter underwriting book than most reporters.
Denial tercile vs fleet
Freedom Credit Union posts a 24.8% denial rate, above the fleet's upper tercile (~13.79%) - across 407 applications with 225 originations. Leading cited denial reason: credit history. Volume rank is still not origination-share rank.
- n/a
- Below 1,000-app share board
- 55.3%
- Origination share
- 225
- Originated
- 24.8%
- Denial rate
According to the CFPB HMDA 2024 Snapshot. Origination share is originated divided by applications among reporters with 1,000+ applications. Denial share and origination share do not sum to 100% because HMDA also records withdrawals, incompletes, and purchased loans. See /methodology#corpus-placement. Informational reporting, not mortgage advice.
Reported application outcomes
407 reported applications
Where Freedom Credit Union sits by reported originations
2024 CFPB HMDA reporting lenders, bucketed by originated-loan count
225 Top 39% higher than 61% of 4,908 reporting lenders
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Source CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act loan/application register · 2024 reporting year
Loan types by applications · Freedom Credit Union
Application volume by HMDA loan type in this lender's 2024 book.
Cited denial reasons · Freedom Credit Union
Lender-reported HMDA denial-reason counts (top reasons shown).
Mid-volume reporter. Freedom Credit Union's 55.3% origination rate and 24.8% denial rate sit on a mid-tercile originated book (225 funded; fleet band ~78-310). Approval and denial do not sum to 100% - HMDA also records withdrawals, incompletes, and purchased loans. Most-cited denial codes: Credit history, Debt-to-income ratio, Other. Program weight concentrates in Conventional (407 applications).
How to read Freedom Credit Union. These figures are aggregate HMDA disclosures for this lender's 2024 book, not any one file. Rates reflect applicant mix (credit, LTV, DTI, geography) as much as underwriting posture. Informational data reporting, not financial, legal, or mortgage advice. Source vintage: CFPB HMDA 2024 Snapshot.
Lending activity by loan program · Freedom Credit Union
Freedom Credit Union filed most under Conventional. Applications, originations and denials are separate outcomes of the same filing, so the columns do not sum.
| Type | Applications | Originated | Denied | Avg Loan |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Conventional | 407 | 225 | 101 | $145,983 |
Source: CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) loan/application register HMDA 2024 LAR, application-level mortgage data for Freedom Credit Union (LEI: 2549006HJBA7HTOZF285) · 2024 HMDA reports filed annually; covers applications received during the calendar year. Approval rates exclude withdrawn / incomplete applications. Denial reasons are lender-reported.
Why borrowers applied
Purchase, refinance and cash-out are reported as distinct purposes; average loan size usually separates them more sharply than volume does.
| Purpose | Applications | Originated | Avg Loan |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home Improvement | 129 | 66 | $62,054 |
| Home Purchase | 102 | 62 | $312,059 |
| Cash-out Refinancing | 88 | 50 | $140,568 |
| Other | 83 | 43 | $74,880 |
| Refinancing | 5 | 4 | $199,000 |
Reported outcomes by applicant race
CFPB derived race categories. HMDA carries no credit score, debt-to-income ratio or down payment, so a gap between these rows is an outcome difference and never, on its own, evidence of discrimination.
| Race | Applications | Approval Rate | Denial Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| White | 288 | 57.6% | 21.9% |
| Black or African American * | 23 | 43.5% | 34.8% |
| Joint * | 7 | 71.4% | 28.6% |
| Asian * | 6 | 50.0% | 33.3% |
| American Indian or Alaska Native * | 3 | 33.3% | 33.3% |
| 2 or more minority races * | 2 | 0.0% | 50.0% |
| Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander * | 1 | 0.0% | 100.0% |
* Fewer than 50 applications -- percentages for this group have wide statistical uncertainty and should not be read as precise.
Reported outcomes by applicant ethnicity
Hispanic or Latino is an ethnicity, not a race, and is reported separately per U.S. Census Bureau standards. The same limitation applies: HMDA records the outcome, not the underwriting inputs behind it.
| Ethnicity | Applications | Approval Rate | Denial Rate |
|---|---|---|---|
| Not Hispanic or Latino | 278 | 59.7% | 21.2% |
| Hispanic or Latino * | 37 | 29.7% | 35.1% |
| Joint * | 12 | 50.0% | 16.7% |
* Fewer than 50 applications -- percentages for this group have wide statistical uncertainty and should not be read as precise.
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Read with Freedom Credit Union
Every figure on PlainLender is rendered directly from CFPB HMDA federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. For Freedom Credit Union (LEI 2549006HJBA7HTOZF285), from the FFIEC/CFPB HMDA Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset (2024). 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.