Cherokee, Iowa · Peer group 5
North Star Community Credit Union
North Star Community Credit Union holds $156.5M in assets across 12,254 members as of Q1 2026 — about $13K of assets per member, on a charter dating to 1972. Charter number 62638, in the $100M-$500M asset tier.
Balance sheet
Reported position at the close of the quarter.
| Total assets | $156.5M |
|---|---|
| Total loans | $113.5M |
| Total shares (deposits) | $140.6M |
| Net worth | $14.6M |
| Members | 12,254 |
| Assets per member | $13K |
Year-over-year growth
Change against the same quarter one year earlier.
| Assets | -3.8% | |
|---|---|---|
| Loans | -3.8% | around the 15th percentile of its peer group |
| Deposits | -4.0% | lower than 95% of its peer group |
| Members | -0.9% | around the 42nd percentile of its peer group |
Ratios and peer position
Each ratio is shown against its percentile rank within this institution's own peer group. The absolute number is rarely the interesting part — a 96% loan-to-share is unremarkable in one peer group and an outlier in another.
| Loan-to-share | 80.7% | around the 70th percentile of its peer group |
|---|---|---|
| Net worth ratio | 9.3% | around the 18th percentile of its peer group |
| Return on assets | -0.25% | lower than 95% of its peer group |
| Delinquency ratio | 0.77% | around the 63rd percentile of its peer group |
| Cash / assets | 5.4% | around the 14th percentile of its peer group |
| Borrowings / assets | 0.0% | around the 40th percentile of its peer group |
What this page does not show
Everything above is North Star Community Credit Union’s own reported position. What a CUSignals subscription adds is the layer on top of it: a merger-susceptibility score and calibrated one-year probability, a franchise-value score, a liquidity-stress score and funding-need flag, participation buyer/seller classification, and buying-propensity scores across five software categories — each with the plain-English reason it moved, and each decomposable into the weights that produced it.
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