Best and Worst Cities for Credit Scores

MSN Money reports on the average credit scores for 20 major U.S. cities. My city didn't make the cut, but if you live in one of those cites you can get an idea if you're surrounded by people with good credit scores or not (at least on an aggregate/average basis). Even if you're not in one of the top 20 cities, you can see how you stack up with your state's average credit score with the interactive map.

According to this article, the average credit score for the entire is 676. Minneapolis tops the list with an average of 705 and Dallas comes in at the bottom with an average of 650. For overall state averages, South Dakota is #1 with an average credit score of 708, and Texas trails all states with an average of 650, just like the bottom city, Dallas.

One kind of interesting thing to note if you look at the interactive map. Is it just me, or are all the lowest credit score states in the south? The states in the north have the highest average credit scores, and the states in the middle are right about in the middle. I wonder if there's a reason for that. It can't just be coincidence, could it?

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