Average credit score: How do you compare?
A credit score is an assessment of your trustworthiness as a borrower. Companies use this simple number, along with other factors, to assess the likelihood that you'll pay back the money you borrow.
Credit scores tend to rise with age. Someone about to retire is much more likely to hold a higher rating than someone just emerging from college.
But wide variability exists between age groups. And sometimes, people within those cohorts have higher or lower scores than their peers.
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