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Freddie Mac weekly average: 30-yr fixed 6.71%, 15-yr fixed 6.04%. Not a quote, no APR published. See /rates.

County data

What borrowers actually paid, county by county

A national average tells you nothing about your county. These pages use loans that already closed in 2025, reported by the lenders themselves, plus the 2026 conforming loan limit where you are buying.

Counties covered
1568
High-cost counties
107

Limit set above the $832,750 baseline.

Loan year
2025

Showing all 1568 counties.

California

Florida

Georgia

Illinois

Indiana

Kentucky

Michigan

Minnesota

Missouri

New York

North Carolina

Ohio

Pennsylvania

Tennessee

Texas

Virginia

Wisconsin

Each row shows the county's median note rate on closed 2025 purchase loans and its 2026 one-unit conforming limit.

Where these numbers come from

  • Home Mortgage Disclosure Act loan-level data, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, 2025. https://ffiec.cfpb.gov/data-browser/
  • Federal Housing Finance Agency, conforming loan limit values, 2026. https://www.fhfa.gov/data/conforming-loan-limit
  • Only counties with at least 100 closed loans are listed. Covered so far: Alabama, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, North Carolina, New Jersey, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington and Wisconsin.

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