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Hicksville’s Average Credit Score
Compare your credit score with the community's average.

If the average credit score of Hicksville residents were a grade, it would be a B.
According to a WalletHub analysis, Hicksville is in the 83 percentile nationwide of the 2,534 communities surveyed.
The community has an average credit score of 709.91, making it the No. 419 in WalletHub's national rankings. (See list of Long Island towns with highest credit scores below)
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The Villages, FL ranked as No. 1 in the United States with an average 778.77 credit score. Pittsford in Monroe County has the highest credit score average in New York with a No. 9 national ranking of 748.35.
The Long Island towns of Syosset and Plainview are nationally ranked No. 23 and No. 24, respectfully.
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In order to identify the cities with the highest and lowest credit scores, WalletHub’s analysts compared the average credit scores of residents in each of 2,534 U.S. “cities” as of October 2016, based on TransUnion data. A rank of “1” corresponds with the ”city” with the highest credit score. Note that “city” refers to city proper and excludes surrounding metro areas.
Here are the 15 Long Island communities with the highest credit scores:
- Syosset— 742.08 (99 percentile)
- Plainview— 741.38 (99 percentile)
- Garden City— 739.06 (98 percentile)
- Massapequa Park— 736.29 (98 percentile)
- Great Neck— 733.18 (97 percentile)
- New Hyde Park— 733.07 (97 percentile)
- Melville— 730.91 (96 percentile)
- Commack— 729.38 (96 percentile)
- Dix Hills— 728.69 (96 percentile)
- Wantagh— 727.55 (95 percentile)
- Merrick— 727.24 (95 percentile)
- East Northport— 727.21 (95 percentile)
- Floral Park— 726.93 (94 percentile)
- Port Washington— 725.3 (94 percentile)
- Seaford— 724.58 (94 percentile)
See the full rankings here.
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