Credit union assets in Alaska

About this data

Quarterly balance-sheet and membership data for every federally insured Alaska credit union, from NCUA 5300 call reports. Credit unions dominate Alaska consumer banking — Global Federal Credit Union alone reports ~$12.9B in assets and 790k+ members — so this is the best window into household deposits, consumer lending, and financial health in the state. Headline series: total assets, loans, shares (deposits), and members, per institution and summed statewide.

Known issues & gotchas

• No API — bulk ZIP only. URL pattern is predictable (call-report-data-YYYY-MM.zip); latest available as of 2026-08-06 is 2026-03 (verified). Each quarter's ZIP is the full national dataset (~4,500 credit unions) — download, filter to AK, discard the rest.
• File schema drifts across decades. The FS220* file set and account codes have changed over the years; AcctDesc.txt inside each ZIP is the authoritative dictionary for that quarter. Backfilling to 1994 means handling several format eras — verify per-era layouts at build time and record them here.
• Mergers break institution-level time series:
• Denali FCU merged into Nuvision (CA) in 2018 — Denali disappears from AK-filtered data after 2018 even though its Alaska branches kept operating. An AK-total series shows a spurious drop unless annotated.
• Global FCU (formerly Alaska USA) merged with Global CU of Spokane in 2023 — post-merger, its ~$12.9B in assets includes large out-of-state operations (Washington, Arizona, etc.). "Alaska credit union assets" overstates Alaska-based activity after 2023; annotate the series break.
• General rule: STATE='AK' selects by charter location. A merger into an