Public Use Database

Public Use Database – Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (Enterprises)

The Enterprise Public Use Database (PUDB) is released annually to meet FHFA’s requirement under 12 U.S.C. 4543 and 4546(d) to publicly disclose data about the Enterprises’ single-family and multifamily mortgage acquisitions. The datasets supply mortgage lenders, planners, researchers, policymakers, and housing advocates with information concerning the flow of mortgage credit in America’s neighborhoods. Beginning with data for mortgages acquired in 2018, FHFA has ordered that the Enterprise PUDB be expanded to include additional data that is the same as the data definitions used by the regulations implementing the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act, as required by 12 U.S.C. 4543(a)(2) and 4546(d)(1).

The Enterprise PUDB single-family datasets include loan-level records that include data elements on the income, race, and sex of each borrower as well as the census tract location of the property, loan-to-value (LTV) ratio, age of mortgage note, and affordability of the mortgage. New for 2018 are the inclusion of the borrower’s debt-to-income (DTI) ratio and detailed LTV ratio data at the census tract level. The Enterprise PUDB multifamily property-level datasets include information on the unpaid principal balance and type of seller/servicer from which the Enterprise acquired the mortgage. New for 2018 is the inclusion of property size data at the census tract level. The multifamily unit-class files also include information on the number and affordability of the units in the property. Both the single-family and multifamily datasets include indicators of whether the purchases are from “underserved” census tracts, as defined in terms of median income and minority percentage of population.

Prior to 2010, the Enterprise single-family PUDB consisted of three files: Census Tract, National A, and National B files. With the 2010 Enterprise PUDB a fourth file, National C, was added to provide information on high-cost mortgages acquired by the Enterprises. The single-family Census Tract file includes information on the location of the property based on the 2010 Census for acquisition years 2012 through 2021, and the 2020 Census beginning with the 2022 acquisition year. The National files contain other information but lack detailed geographic information in order to protect Enterprise proprietary data. The multifamily datasets also consist of a Census Tract file, and a National file without detailed geographic information.

HERA Section 1212 requires the Director to make available to the public, in a form that is useful to the public (including forms accessible electronically), and to the extent practicable, census tract level data relating to mortgages purchased by each Federal Home Loan Bank.

The contents of these files are unaudited and are reported directly by the Federal Home Loan Banks to FHFA. Questions concerning the content of these files should be directed to the relevant Federal Home Loan Bank(s).