{"id":7954,"date":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-states-with-highest-lowest-credit-scores\/"},"modified":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-29T00:00:00","slug":"10-states-with-highest-lowest-credit-scores","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-states-with-highest-lowest-credit-scores\/","title":{"rendered":"10 States With Highest, Lowest Credit Scores"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<\/p>\n<div readability=\"43.957627118644\">\n<!--\n\n<pre>-->  <\/p>\n<div property=\"dc:description\" readability=\"34.779661016949\"><!--paging_filter--><\/p>\n<p>The average credit score in the U.S. was 675 last year\u2014the highest since 2012, according to Experian\u2019s State of Credit: 2017 survey. More Americans fall on the higher end of the credit score spectrum, with 22 percent having \u201csuper-high\u201d credit scores between 781 to 850 and 21 percent having \u201cdeep subprime\u201d or very low credit scores below 600. Minnesota has the highest credit scores in the country, averaging 709.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/mortgage-preapproval-guide-for-home-buyers\/\">Mortgage<\/a> debt was up sharply in 2017, rising to an average $201,811 per borrower from $196,014 in 2016, which Experian says is a reflection of the quick run-up in home prices. Millennials\u2019 mortgage debt increased 6.8 percent, from $185,668 to $198,302, in just one year, the report shows.<\/p>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/realtormag.realtor.org\/sites\/realtormag.realtor.org\/files\/rmo_files\/images\/2018_jan\/Experian_chart.png\" style=\"width: 436px; height: 378px;\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Experian, the top 10 states with the highest average credit scores are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Minnesota: 709<\/li>\n<li>Vermont: 702<\/li>\n<li>New Hampshire: 701<\/li>\n<li>South Dakota: 700<\/li>\n<li>Massachusetts: 699<\/li>\n<li>North Dakota: 697<\/li>\n<li>Wisconsin: 696<\/li>\n<li>Iowa: 695<\/li>\n<li>Nebraska: 695<\/li>\n<li>Hawaii: 693<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>On the other hand, the states with the lowest average credit scores are:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Mississippi: 647<\/li>\n<li>Louisiana: 650<\/li>\n<li>Georgia: 654<\/li>\n<li>Alabama: 654<\/li>\n<li>Nevada: 655<\/li>\n<li>Texas: 656<\/li>\n<li>Oklahoma: 656<\/li>\n<li>South Carolina: 657<\/li>\n<li>Arkansas: 657<\/li>\n<li>West Virginia: 658<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><em>Source: \u201cState of Credit: 2017,\u201d Experian (Jan. 11, 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a hre=\"http:\/\/feedproxy.google.com\/~r\/DailyRealEstateNews\/~3\/FcO16JKbhsM\/10-states-highest-lowest-credit-scores\"> Realtors <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The average credit score in the U.S. was 675 last year\u2014the highest since 2012, according to &hellip; <a title=\"10 States With Highest, Lowest Credit Scores\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/10-states-with-highest-lowest-credit-scores\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">10 States With Highest, Lowest Credit Scores<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7955,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[518,1335,12908,543,408,41,818,479],"class_list":["post-7954","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opportunities-in-new-markets","tag-america","tag-credit","tag-home","tag-home-buying-guide","tag-mortgage","tag-property","tag-real","tag-realtor"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Experian_chart.png?fit=436%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amazingproperty.com.ng\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}