A credit score is a pivotal three-digit number that plays a significant role in your financial life. Ranging from 300 to 850, it estimates your likelihood of repaying borrowed money and paying bills ...

Seven of the 10 counties with the highest average credit scores are in one state, according to a Money analysis of data from more than 12,000 U.S. counties.

they have no credit score at all – and whom the company’s more modern approaches to collecting data do better at scoring. But ...