LEI 549300DXF2FQC64H6G42 · Livonia, MI

Zeal Credit Union

Denial sits in the upper fleet tercile at 23.6% across 440 HMDA applications, a stricter underwriting book than most reporters.

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Denial tercile vs fleet

Zeal Credit Union posts a 23.6% denial rate, above the fleet's upper tercile (~13.79%) - across 440 applications with 271 originations. Leading cited denial reason: debt-to-income ratio. Volume rank is still not origination-share rank.

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Below 1,000-app share board
61.6%
Origination share
271
Originated
23.6%
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.

Where Zeal Credit Union sits by reported originations

2024 CFPB HMDA reporting lenders, bucketed by originated-loan count

271 Top 36% higher than 64% of 4,908 reporting lenders

This lender 0 400,000 reporting lenders, grouped by originated loans

Each bar is a 50,000-originated loans band. The dashed line and filled bar mark this lender. Hover, tap, or focus a bar for its count and population share.

Source CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act loan/application register · 2024 reporting year

Loan types by applications · Zeal Credit Union

Application volume by HMDA loan type in this lender's 2024 book.

Loan mix
1. Conventional440
0%100%61.6%
Origination share · Zeal Credit Union

Cited denial reasons · Zeal Credit Union

Lender-reported HMDA denial-reason counts (top reasons shown).

Denial mix
1. Debt-to-income ratio372. Credit history333. Credit application incomp…314. Employment history15. Collateral1

Mid-volume reporter. Zeal Credit Union's 61.6% origination rate and 23.6% denial rate sit on a mid-tercile originated book (271 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: Debt-to-income ratio, Credit history, Credit application incomplete. Program weight concentrates in Conventional (440 applications).

How to read Zeal 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 · Zeal Credit Union

Zeal 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 440 271 104 $54,364

Source: CFPB Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA) loan/application register HMDA 2024 LAR, application-level mortgage data for Zeal Credit Union (LEI: 549300DXF2FQC64H6G42) · 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 418 254 $53,732
Refinancing 22 17 $66,364

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 352 64.8% 20.4%
Black or African American 68 50.0% 35.3%
Asian * 9 33.3% 55.6%
Joint * 3 100.0% 0.0%
American Indian or Alaska Native * 1 100.0% 0.0%

* 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 425 62.4% 23.1%
Hispanic or Latino * 6 66.7% 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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Every figure on PlainLender is rendered directly from CFPB HMDA federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. For Zeal Credit Union (LEI 549300DXF2FQC64H6G42), 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.