The average credit score in every state — how do you stack up?

FICO has released the average credit score in each state. Find out how you compare and what you can do to boost your score.
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Here’s the average credit score in each state, including Alabama

A person’s credit score affects everything from buying a house to applying for a credit card— and a new map shows the average score state-by-state. Newsweek analyzed credit scores in each state using ...

Credit Scores Are Down—The Biggest One-Year Drop Since the Financial Crisis

The average FICO credit score fell in 2025—the largest drop since 2009—as student loan delinquencies returned after pandemic ...

Credit scores just plunged at fastest pace since Great Recession — how does your FICO compare to the new average?

Bankcard delinquency rates, for example, hit 11.7% this year, only 2% shy of the Great Recession peak. Meanwhile, credit card ...
Fast Company

U.S. credit scores suffer largest 2-year drop since Great Recession

After more than a decade of steady improvement, the average American’s credit score fell for the second year in a row. Falling credit scores are just the latest sign that all is not well within the ...
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Here's the Credit Score Range You Need to Get the Best Mortgage Rate

The wild, Wild West days of mortgage interest rates crashing below 3% are long gone -- and will likely remain long gone for a long time. But the good news is that with the Fed set to cut the federal ...