Our story
Every headline about "the average American bank" picks one of two very different banks and doesn't say which. One is every dollar in the system divided by the number of banks. The other is the bank in the middle of the line. EveryBank is both, and they disagree about almost everything.
Fewer banks, every quarter
6,122 banks in 2016 Q1. 4,239 in 2026 Q2. Nobody closed the average; it merged.
Mean and Median, by size
Mean went from $2.66B to $6.24B. Median went from $194M to $387M.