CREDIT SCORING FACTORS
Five factors contribute to your overall credit score.
PAYMENT HISTORY - 35%
• Account payment information on specific types of accounts.
(credit cards, retail accounts, installment loans, finance company accounts, mortgage, etc.)
• Presence of adverse public records (bankruptcy, judgments, suits, liens, wage attachments, etc.),
collection items, and/or delinquency (past due items)
• Severity of delinquency (how long past due)
• Amount past due on delinquent accounts or collection items
• Time since (most recent) past due items (delinquency), adverse public records (if any), or collection
items (if any)
• Number of past due items on file
• Number of accounts paid as agreed
AMOUNTS OWED - 30%
• Amount owing on accounts
• Amount owing on specific types of accounts
• Lack of a specific type of balance, in some cases
• Number of accounts with balances
• Proportion of credit lines used (proportion of balances to total credit limits on certain types of
revolving accounts)
• Proportion of installment loan amounts still owing (proportion of balance to original loan amount on
certain types
LENGTH OF CREDIT HISTORY - 15%
• Time since accounts opened
• Time since accounts opened, by specific type of account
• Time since account activity
TYPES OF CREDIT UTILIZED - 10%
Number
of (presence, prevalence, and recent information on) various types of
accounts
(credit cards, retail accounts, installment loans, mortgage,
consumer finance accounts, etc.)
NEW CREDIT - 10%
• Number of recently opened accounts, and proportion of accounts that are recently opened, by type of account
• Number of recent credit inquiries
• Time since recent account opening(s), by type of account
• Time since credit inquiry(s)
• Re-establishment of positive credit history following past payment problems
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