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Georgia bank statistics, September 2026

  • Georgia banks pay more. The median Georgia bank 1.58% a year on savings and money market deposits in Q2 2026, compared to 1.45% at the median US bank. It was above the national median in 44 of the 47 quarters from Q4 2014 to Q2 2026.
  • 39% fewer banks. 124 FDIC-insured banks headquartered in Georgia filed a in June 2026, compared to 203 in June 2015.
  • 16% fewer branches. Georgia had 1,972 retail bank branches in the 2025 , compared to 2,358 in 2016.
  • More mergers than new banks. From 2010 to 2025, 105 Georgia banks merged into another bank, and 7 new banks opened.
  • More of the Fed's rise reached Georgia depositors. The rose 5.2 percentage points in 2022 and 2023. The median Georgia bank raised its savings rate by 1.5 points from Q1 2022 to its peak in Q4 2024, compared to 1.4 points at the median US bank to its peak in Q3 2024.

Each bank on this page is one FDIC-insured , identified by its FDIC certificate number, and its state is the headquarters state on its FDIC record. The table lists the 50 largest of the 122 open banks headquartered in Georgia, by deposits.

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124FDIC-insured banks headquartered in Georgia that filed a call report, Down from 203 in
1.5 pointsRise in the median Georgia bank's savings rate, Q1 2022 to Q4 2024The federal funds rate rose 5.2 points in 2022 and 2023, and the median US bank's rate 1.4 to Q3 2024
1,972Retail bank branches in Georgia, Down from 2,358 in

The number of Georgia banks has fallen

From 2010 to 2025, more Georgia banks merged into another bank than new banks opened.

How many banks are headquartered in Georgia?

122 open FDIC-insured banks give Georgia as their headquarters state.

By total assets: 13 under $100M, 96 $100M to $1B, 12 $1B to $10B, 1 over $10B.

117 of them meet the FDIC community bank definition. That is 96% of the open banks, above the US share, 90%.

Georgia has 10.8 banks per million residents (Census Vintage 2025 population estimate), below the US figure, 12.3.

Together they hold $102.9B in assets and $86.8B in deposits.

FDIC-insured banks headquartered in Georgia that filed a call report

  • June 2015203
  • June 2026124

203 FDIC-insured banks headquartered in Georgia filed a call report in June 2015, and 124 in June 2026, a fall of 38.9%. The US figure is a fall of 33.2%.

The median of the 122 open banks holds $334M in assets.

Median assets of today's Georgia banks

  • Q2 2015$140 million
  • Q2 2026$334 million

Followed back through their own call reports, the same banks had median assets of $140 million in Q2 2015 and $334 million in Q2 2026, a rise of 139.2%. The figures are not adjusted for inflation.

How it is counted

The state is the bank's current head-office state from the FDIC institution file, applied to both years. A bank that moved its head office is counted in its current state in both years, and a bank that closed is counted in its last state.

Source: FDIC institutions file, ; FDIC call report, .

How many Georgia banks merged, opened or failed?

From 2010 to 2025, 105 Georgia banks merged into another bank, 6.6 a year, and 7 new banks opened. In 2000 to 2007, 112 new banks opened, 14.0 a year.

Georgia banks, 2010 to 2025

  • Merged into another bank105
  • New banks opened7

1 new charter opened in Georgia in the five years to September 26, 2026.

95 Georgia banks failed from 2000 to September 2026. 79 of them failed in 2009 to 2012. The most in one year was 25, in 2009.

Georgia banks that merged into another bank, opened or failed, by the year the event took effect
YearMerged into another bankNew chartersFailed
2026 (to September 2026)401
2025400
2024000
2023100
2022010
2021400
2020320
20191220
2018300
2017700
20161101
20151102
20141301
2013203
20121010
20111123
201032121
20094125
200818105
200713131
200619210
200512130
20049140
20039130
200215111

How it is counted

A merger here is a bank headquartered in Georgia that was absorbed by another bank, including a merger of two banks owned by one holding company. The state is the one on the FDIC record of the event.

Source: FDIC history file and FDIC failed bank list, .

How old are the banks headquartered in Georgia?

The median of the 122 open banks headquartered in Georgia is 90 years old.

The oldest charter still open dates to 1871.

The newest open charter headquartered in Georgia was established in 2022.

How it is counted

A charter date is the date the institution was established, not the date of a later name change or a later merger. A bank that took over an older charter carries the older date.

Source: FDIC call report, ; FDIC institutions file, .

The largest banks and their deposits

At the median, the largest Georgia banks held more in deposits in Q2 2026 than a year earlier.

Which banks headquartered in Georgia hold the most deposits?

Ameris Bank holds the most, $22.7B in deposits, on the Q2 2026 call report.

How it is counted

Deposits are the total on each bank’s , wherever its depositors live. Each column sorts, and each bank links to its page where this site publishes one.

The 50 largest of the 122 FDIC-insured banks headquartered in Georgia, by total deposits, Q2 2026
Rank in stateHeadquartersRate paid on savings and money market deposits, Q2 2026
1Ameris BankAtlanta, GA22,695+2.628,4191642.42%
2RBC Bank, (Georgia) National AssociationAtlanta, GA8,536+42.79,59410.55%
3Metro City BankDoraville, GA3,527+29.54,466273.49%
4Vallant BankElberton, GA3,459+70.43,98536Savings and money market deposits changed too much in the quarter for a reliable rate, so no rate is computed.
5Colony BankFitzgerald, GA3,009+16.13,613331.90%
6Georgia Banking CompanyAtlanta, GA2,877+37.93,25910Savings and money market deposits changed too much in the quarter for a reliable rate, so no rate is computed.
7Queensborough National Bank & Trust CompanyLouisville, GA2,052+6.22,280242.30%
8United BankZebulon, GA1,882+0.32,159170.70%
9Thomasville National BankThomasville, GA1,868+14.82,18142.60%
10BankSouthGreensboro, GA1,363+20.11,590101.71%
11PrimeSouth BankBlackshear, GA1,327+8.11,60282.45%
12PeoplesSouth BankColquitt, GA1,119+4.31,215341.27%
13American Pride BankMacon, GA890+97.21,03073.46%
14Farmers and Merchants BankLakeland, GA785+12.88625Savings and money market deposits changed too much in the quarter for a reliable rate, so no rate is computed.
15First American Bank and Trust CompanyAthens, GA753+3.390271.47%
16PromiseOne BankDuluth, GA732-1.1812103.15%
17Barwick Banking CompanyBarwick, GA702+26.483072.74%
18First Century Bank, National AssociationCommerce, GA693+15.983221.19%
19Citizens Trust BankAtlanta, GA678-0.179071.64%
20Oconee State BankWatkinsville, GA658+11.774462.20%
21First National Community BankChatsworth, GA653+7.8755102.58%
22FNB SOUTHAlma, GA610+5.773541.64%
23Northeast Georgia BankLavonia, GA563+1.965190.40%
24First Port City BankBainbridge, GA558+6.462452.75%
25Southeastern BankDarien, GA544+2.0625111.33%

Of the 124 FDIC-insured charters that filed a call report for Q2 2026, only the ones still open are ranked. Charters with equal deposits share a rank, so the sequence can skip a number.

Source: FDIC call report, ; FDIC locations file, .

How concentrated are the deposits of Georgia banks?

The largest, Ameris Bank, holds 26.1% of the deposits of the 122 open banks headquartered in Georgia. The five largest hold 47.5% and the ten largest 59.1%. The 50 in the table hold 84.8%, and the other 72 hold 15.2% between them.

Share of the deposits of the 122 open banks headquartered in Georgia

The largest, Ameris Bank

  • These banks26.1%
  • The other banks73.9%

The five largest

  • These banks47.5%
  • The other banks52.5%

The ten largest

  • These banks59.1%
  • The other banks40.9%

How it is counted

Each share counts banks by charter. 1 holding company owns two or more of the banks in the table, 2 charters in all, and each charter has its own line.

Source: FDIC call report, .

Are the largest banks headquartered in Georgia growing?

Over the four quarters to Q2 2026, the median of the 50 largest banks changed its deposits by +6.8%, compared to +4.2% at the median open bank headquartered in Georgia. 5 of the 50 with a figure held less than a year earlier.

9 of the 50 largest banks headquartered in Georgia absorbed at least one other bank from June 30, 2021 to June 30, 2026.

How it is counted

When a bank absorbs another bank, the other bank’s deposits move into the total of the bank that survives, so the change includes mergers.

Source: FDIC call report, ; FDIC history file, .

Georgia has fewer bank branches

How many branches operate in Georgia?

2,001 retail bank branches operate in Georgia.

177 banks run them, including banks headquartered in other states.

Retail bank branches per 100,000 residents

  • Georgia17.7
  • US figure21.4

That is 17.7 branches per 100,000 residents, against the Census Vintage 2025 population estimate. That is below the US figure, 21.4.

Retail branch offices in Georgia, FDIC Summary of Deposits

  • 20162,358
  • 20212,115
  • 20251,972

In the FDIC , Georgia had 2,358 retail branch offices in 2016, 2,115 in 2021 and 1,972 in 2025, a fall of 16.4%.

How it is counted

A retail branch is an office the FDIC records as a full-service brick-and-mortar or retail office (service types 11 and 12). Foreign offices are excluded. The count today comes from the FDIC locations file, and the yearly counts come from the Summary of Deposits, so the two can differ by a few offices.

Source: FDIC locations file, .

Georgia savings rates have trailed the Fed and inflation

In Q2 2026, the median Georgia bank paid more on savings than the median US bank.

What do banks headquartered in Georgia pay on savings?

The median Georgia bank 1.58% a year on savings and money market deposits in Q2 2026, over the 115 FDIC-insured Georgia banks that filed a call report for the quarter and reported a figure.

Rate paid on savings and money market deposits, Q2 2026

  • The median Georgia bank1.58%
  • The median US bank1.45%
  • The ten largest Georgia banks, median2.10%

The median US bank paid 1.45% in the same quarter. Both are far below the top savings rates on the market.

The median of the ten largest banks headquartered in Georgia was 2.10%, over the 8 of them with a figure.

From Q4 2014 to Q2 2026, the median Georgia bank was below the median US bank in 3 of 47 quarters and above it in 44.

Rise over the hikes, in percentage points

  • The effective federal funds rate5.21
  • The median Georgia bank1.52
  • The median US bank1.40

The rose 5.21 percentage points from Q1 2022 to Q4 2023. The median Georgia bank went from 0.19% in Q1 2022 to 1.71% at its peak in Q4 2024, a rise of 1.52 points. That is a of 0.29. The median US bank rose 1.40 points, to its peak in Q3 2024. From that peak to Q2 2026, it moved from 1.71% to 1.58%.

Q2 2026

  • Consumer prices, rise over 12 months3.86%
  • The median Georgia bank's savings rate1.58%

The median Georgia bank's rate was below the rise in in all 22 quarters from Q1 2021 to Q2 2026. In Q2 2026 it was 1.58%, and consumer prices rose 3.86% over twelve months.

How it is counted

The rate is computed from the interest expense and the balance each bank reported, and no bank advertises it. The FDIC line covers savings and money market deposit accounts, including business accounts. The FDIC does not separate consumer accounts. A bank whose figures fail the reliability checks has no rate, and its cell in the table says why.

Source: FDIC call report, Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED), effective federal funds rate and FRED consumer price index, .

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Where else to look

Largest banks in other states

One list for each of these states, of the FDIC-insured banks headquartered in it.

Frequently asked questions

What does the largest bank headquartered in Georgia pay on savings and money market deposits?

Ameris Bank paid 2.42% in Q2 2026, by the same call report measure as every rate on this page. The rates it advertises to new customers can be higher or lower.

Why is a large bank with branches in Georgia not on this list?

The list is drawn only from the 122 open banks whose FDIC record gives Georgia as the headquarters state. A bank headquartered in another state counts in its own state, even when it runs many branches in Georgia.

How often do these figures change?

Banksparency rebuilds them once a month from the FDIC files. A bank files its call report within 30 days after the quarter ends, so a new quarter appears about a month after the quarter closes. The Summary of Deposits is a survey of June 30 each year.

How these figures are computed

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The figures come from the quarterly call reports that every FDIC-insured bank files, recomputed once a month. Each row is one insured charter, and the state is the headquarters state on the charter’s FDIC record, not a list of the states it sells in. Insured US branches of foreign banks and uninsured trust companies also appear in the FDIC financial data, and they are left out.

Rank is taken over the insured banks in that state that filed for the quarter and are still open. A bank that has merged or closed since has no rank. Banks with equal deposits share a rank, so the printed sequence can skip a number, and a state with fewer than eight filers carries no rank and no page.

The rate is derived from the interest expense a bank reports against its savings and money market balance in the quarter, and it is an average over the balance rather than an advertised rate. The median Georgia bank is the median over every insured bank headquartered in Georgia that filed for the quarter and reported a figure. Its line over time follows the same banks back through their own filings, and a quarter where fewer than half of them reported a rate is left out. The median US bank is the median over every bank that filed for the quarter and reported a figure. The Fed's rate is the effective federal funds rate from FRED series EFFR, averaged over each quarter. The rise in consumer prices is the twelve-month change in the CPI for all urban consumers, not seasonally adjusted (FRED series CPIAUCNS), averaged over each quarter.

The US figure beside a state figure is the sum over the 50 states and DC, with the territories left out: for example, all their branches over all their residents, or all their filers in each year. A rank is taken over the same 51, and states with equal values share a rank.

The count of insured banks that filed in the first and the newest year uses the bank’s current headquarters state for both years. The median assets over time follow the banks that are open today back through their own filings, so a bank that closed or merged before today is not in the earlier figures.

The yearly counts of mergers, new charters and failures come from the FDIC history file and the FDIC failed bank list. They count FDIC-insured banks only, by the date each event took effect. A merger counts the bank that was absorbed, once per event. A late FDIC filing can raise the count of an earlier month at the next monthly rebuild.

A retail branch is an office the FDIC records as a full-service brick-and-mortar or retail office (service types 11 and 12). Foreign offices are excluded. The yearly branch counts come from the FDIC Summary of Deposits, which counts the offices in the state on June 30 of each year, whatever the state of the bank that runs them.

A bank must file its call report within 30 days after the quarter ends, or 35 days for a bank with more than one foreign office (Call Report instructions of the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC)). A bank can amend a call report after it files. Each monthly rebuild reads the FDIC files again, so an amended figure replaces the earlier one, and the page and the download change together.

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