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Laurel County, KY

Banking market profile · FDIC Summary of Deposits, June 30, 2025
Market Intelligence › Middlesborough-Corbin, KY › Laurel County

Laurel County, Kentucky, a core county of the Middlesborough-Corbin, KY market, holds $1.3B in deposits across 13 insured institutions and 27 branches. Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company is the largest deposit holder at 24.8% share. The top three institutions hold 60.2% of deposits, which places the county in the concentrated band. Deposits have grown 36.2% since 2020 while the branch count rose by 3. It produces $2.3B of output, ranking #871 of the 1,523 counties within a CSA or MSA by economic output.

2024 Real GDP
$2.3B
#871 of 1,523
Total Deposits
$1.3B
#830 of 1,523
Population
63,746
#814 of 1,523
GDP per Capita
$36,515
#1,016 of 1,523
Insured Institutions
13
#465 of 1,523
Deposits per Branch
$46M
#1,415 of 1,523
Deposits per Capita
$19,677
#909 of 1,523
Branches per 100k Pop.
42.4
#180 of 1,523
Median Institution Size
$57M
Median deposits of the institutions operating in the county. #1,340 of 1,523. A smaller figure signals a market served mainly by community-scale banks.
Community & Regional Bank Share
79.2%
of market deposits held by banks with $100M to $50B in assets. #519 of 1,523. A higher share points to a market where small to mid-size institutions, the kind that compete on relationships and local decision-making, hold more ground.
Top-3 Deposit Share: concentrated
60.2%
The combined deposit share of the three largest institutions in the county. A lower share means deposits are spread across more institutions.

Deposit trend

Total county deposits, 2020 to 2025+36.2% over 5 years
$921M
2020
$1.0B
2021
$1.1B
2022
$1.1B
2023
$1.1B
2024
$1.3B
2025

Branches: 24 in 2020 to 27 in 2025. Institutions: 12 to 13. Top-three share: 64.1% to 60.2%.

Leading institutions by deposits

InstitutionDepositsShareBranches5‑yr
Cumberland Valley National Bank & Trust Company$311M24.8%6+19%
Commercial Bank$244M19.4%5+16%
PNC Bank, National Association$201M16.0%2+69%
Community Trust Bank, Inc.$172M13.7%3+79%
Forcht Bank, National Association$110M8.8%2+18%
Truist Bank$61M4.8%1+5%
Hometown Bank of Corbin, Inc.$57M4.6%2+97%
1st Trust Bank, Inc.$42M3.3%1+13%
The First National Bank of Manchester$25M2.0%1+506%
First State Bank of the Southeast, Inc$16M1.3%1no 2020 presence

The 10 insured institutions with a branch presence in this county, as of June 30, 2025. Five-year change compares the same institution’s county deposits in 2020 and 2025. Institutions are tracked by FDIC certificate number, and where an institution acquired another bank, the acquired bank’s prior deposits are folded into the baseline so the change reflects the combined, continuing franchise rather than reading as new. Even so, a large gain can reflect acquisition rather than competitive growth; “no 2020 presence” means neither the institution nor a bank it later absorbed reported deposits in this county that year.

Part of the Middlesborough-Corbin market

Laurel County is one of 5 counties that make up the Middlesborough-Corbin, KY market, a Combined Statistical Area (ranked #264 of 293 U.S. markets by economic output). It produces 43.7% of the market’s output and holds 40.6% of its deposits.

MeasureLaurel CountyShare of Middlesborough-Corbin market
2024 GDP$2.3B43.7%
Deposits$1.3B40.6%
Population63,74636.9%

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Recruiting in Laurel County

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