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Agencies Release List of Distressed or Underserved Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies June 24, 2020

June 24, 2020 / Source: FFIEC

Press Release

Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Joint Press Release

For Immediate Release

June 24, 2020

Agencies Release List of Distressed or Underserved Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies   

The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency today announced the availability of the 2020 list of distressed or underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies. These are geographic areas where revitalization or stabilization activities are eligible to receive Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) consideration under the community development definition.

Distressed nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies and underserved nonmetropolitan middle-income geographies are designated by the agencies in accordance with their CRA regulations. The criteria for designating these areas are available on the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) website (http://www.ffiec.gov/cra).The designations continue to reflect local economic conditions, including unemployment, poverty, and population changes.

As with past releases, the agencies apply a one-year lag period for geographies that were listed in 2019 but are no longer designated as distressed or underserved in the current release. Revitalization or stabilization activities in these geographies are eligible to receive CRA consideration under the community development definition for 12 months after publication of the current list.

 The current and previous years’ lists can be found on the FFIEC website, along with information about the data sources used to generate those lists.

Attachments:

2020 List of Distressed or Underserved Nonmetropolitan Middle-Income Geographies (PDF)
Source Information and Methodology (PDF)
 

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 The FFIEC was established in March 1979 to prescribe uniform principles, standards, and report forms and to promote uniformity in the supervision of financial institutions. It also conducts schools for examiners employed by the five federal member agencies represented on the FFIEC and makes those schools available to employees of state agencies that supervise financial institutions. The Council consists of the following six voting members: a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; the Chairman of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation; the Director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; the Comptroller of the Currency; the Chairman of the National Credit Union Administration; and the Chairman of the State Liaison Committee.

 Media Contacts:

Federal Reserve

Susan Stawick

(202) 452-2955

FDIC

David Barr

(202) 898-6992

OCC

Stephanie Collins

(202) 649-6870