Home improvement loan lenders in Wake County, North Carolina
Fat Boy Data analyzed home improvement loan activity in Wake County, North Carolina, home to Raleigh, to show which lenders are making these loans, how often they approve, how often borrowers accept the offer, and how much they typically finance. 16,125 applications were decided by 190 lenders between 2023 and 2025.
Wake County at a glance
How Wake County compares
What the data shows
State Employees' made the most home improvement loans in Wake County, NC, 2,904 of them.
That is 28% of every home improvement loan originated here, so this market is unusually concentrated in one lender.
Summit Credit Union approved the highest share of applications among lenders with at least 20 decisions here, 100% of 32.
Lenders approved 69.6% of home improvement loan applications in Wake County, NC, 5.6 percentage points above the North Carolina rate of 64.0%.
The typical home improvement loan here is $95K, 12% larger than the North Carolina typical of $85K.
No lender with a meaningful sample here has a typical home improvement loan at or below $35K, so small jobs are poorly served by the banks in this market.
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Home improvement loan lenders in Wake County
| Lender | Approval | Approved | Taken up | Typical loan | Loans made | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Employees' | 72% | 2,939 / 4,083 | 99% | $65K | 2,904 |
| 2 | COASTAL Federal Credit Union | 78% | 2,177 / 2,790 | 87% | $95K | 1,890 |
| 3 | First-Citizens Bank & Trust Company | 76% | 1,090 / 1,433 | 93% | $105K | 1,019 |
| 4 | Bank of America, National Association | 55% | 663 / 1,206 | 98% | $105K | 647 |
| 5 | Truist Bank | 52% | 449 / 860 | 94% | $105K | 424 |
Ranked by lending volume. Approval is the share of decided applications a lender approved; taken up is the share of approvals borrowers accepted. Lenders with fewer than 20 decisions are marked as a limited sample and never used for a “highest approval” claim.How the numbers work.
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