New Zealand’s best credit scores can be found at the top of the South Island, credit ratings agency Centrix says. It has released new data showing how New Zealand’s mean credit scores by region have changed from pre-Covid, through lockdown, to March this year. A credit score is a number between zero and 1000 that indicates how likely a person is to make required payments. Supplied The average credit score varies around the country. Of those, 35 per cent were mortgages, 32 per cent credit cards, 24 per cent loans and 8 per cent overdrafts.

Source: Stuff April 12, 2021 16:52 UTC