Your Credit Scores

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Your Credit Scores
The most commonly used credit score today is known as a "FICO" score, named after the company that developed it, Fair Isaac Corp. FICO scores range from 400 to 900. The lower the score, the greater the risk of default.

According to FICO, the breakdown of a person's score is as follows:
35 percent of the score is determined by payment histories on credit accounts, with recent history weighted a bit more heavily than the distant past;

30 percent is based on the amount of debt outstanding with all creditors;

15 percent is produced on the basis of how long the borrower has been a credit user (a longer history is better if there have always been timely payments);

10 percent is comprised of very recent history and whether the borrower has been actively seeking (and getting) loans or credit lines in the past months;

10 percent is calculated from the mix of credit held, including installment loans (like car loans), leases, mortgages, credit cards, and so on.