2025 activity year · Official source proof

Arkansas mortgage market

Reported mortgage application activity from the official CFPB/FFIEC HMDA Data Browser, with purchased loans excluded from the application denominator.

Activity year
2025
Applications reported117.6KSnapshot dataset; cross-kind change withheld
Originations reported66.5K56.6% of reported applications
Reporting lenders801Institutions with reported activity in Arkansas

Action taken

What happened to applications?

117,557 total
Originated56.6% · 66,490
Approved, not accepted3.6% · 4,213
Denied18.1% · 21,278
Withdrawn14.7% · 17,334
File closed for incompleteness6.5% · 7,676
Preapproval denied0.0% · 49
Preapproval approved, not accepted0.4% · 517

“Originated” means the reported application resulted in a loan. It is not an approval probability for a future applicant.

Loan purpose

Why people applied

  • Home purchase53.2%
  • Home improvement7.8%
  • Other purpose10.3%
  • Refinancing14.6%
  • Cash-out refinancing14.1%

Next source gate

Denial reasons are not published yet.

That analysis requires the raw modified-LAR pipeline, reason-code reconciliation, and small-cell review. We will not fill the gap with estimates or unsupported conclusions.

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Data provenance

Every published number will carry its source.

This profile identifies the activity year, cohort rules, source endpoint, response hash, and processing date. Source: CFPB/FFIEC HMDA Data Browser API. Last refreshed September 2, 2026.

Review methodology