Small Business Loans

The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) requires large banks to report new small business and small farm loans. For small business loans, the maximum loan size reported is $1 million; for small farm loans, the maximum is $500,000. This indicator reports the new lending to businesses with revenues under $1 million, by amount and number of…

Environmental Justice – Underground Storage Tanks (UST) and Leaking UST (LUST)

This indicator reports the count of LUSTs (multiplied by a factor of 7.7) and the number of USTs within a 1,500-foot buffered block group. Areas with higher UST scores are placed higher in percentile (national ranking). The percentile could be interpreted as, for example, for a place at the 80th percentile nationwide, 20% (i.e., 100…