Wildwood-The Villages
Metropolitan Statistical Area · MSA Code 48680
According to CFPB HMDA 2024 application volume among tracked metros, Wildwood-The Villages ranks #260 of 418.
Mortgage lending activity in the Wildwood-The Villages metro area based on lender filings under the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act (HMDA). Data covers all applications received by HMDA-reporting institutions operating in this geography during 2024. Why mortgages get denied walks the denial-reason codes that appear in books like this one.
Metro-area mortgage activity. The Wildwood-The Villages Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA code 48680) financed its book at an average note rate of 7.09%. 20 major lenders are tracked for this metro - Citizens First Bank, Rocket Mortgage, United Wholesale Mortgage lead by origination volume. Among the 418 metros tracked, Wildwood-The Villages sits in the 94th percentile for approval-friendliness by denial rate, and shares its 5-point denial-rate band with 117 other tracked metros.
What MSA numbers tell you, and what they don't. Metro area boundaries are defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget and typically span multiple counties, so a single Wildwood-The Villages denial rate averages across urban core, inner suburbs, and outer commuter communities with very different borrower profiles. A 11.9% denial rate at the MSA level can coexist with widely varying individual-lender denial rates; $281,932 average loan size reflects the MSA's property values and the borrower pool that actually applied, not any single neighborhood. This page is informational data reporting, not financial, legal, or mortgage advice.
Lender concentration in Wildwood-The Villages
In Wildwood-The Villages, lead originator Citizens First Bank funded 38.0% of 4,274 originated loans, above the fleet's upper tercile (~12.8% top-1). The top three reporters together hold 48.4% of the book, so a handful of names dominate disclosed volume here.
Metros With a Similar Denial Rate
The metro areas closest to Wildwood-The Villages's 11.9% denial rate among all 418 tracked MSAs.
Metros With Similar Application Volume
Nationwide MSAs nearest to Wildwood-The Villages's 7,151 HMDA applications (deduped against the denial-rate neighbourhood).
Metros With a Similar Average Loan
Nationwide MSAs nearest to Wildwood-The Villages's $281,932 average loan (deduped against denial and volume peers).
Lenders active in the Wildwood-The Villages metro
Citizens First Bank funded 1,626 of the 4,274 loans originated here, 38.0% of the metro. 20 reporting lenders follow.
| # | Lender | Originated | Applications | Avg Loan | Market Share |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Citizens First Bank | 1,626 | 1,994 | $271,404 | 38.0% |
| 2 | Rocket Mortgage | 236 | 322 | $258,168 | 5.5% |
| 3 | United Wholesale Mortgage | 206 | 269 | $305,112 | 4.8% |
| 4 | Union Home Mortgage Corp. | 91 | 110 | $316,182 | 2.1% |
| 5 | Navy Federal Credit Union | 68 | 119 | $278,529 | 1.6% |
Every figure on PlainLender is rendered directly from CFPB HMDA federal source data, no number is typed in by an editor. For the Wildwood-The Villages metropolitan area, from the FFIEC/CFPB HMDA Snapshot National Loan-Level Dataset (2024) -- Metropolitan Statistical Areas are defined by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Not financial advice for Wildwood-The Villages 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.