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Wayne County, IN

Banking market profile · FDIC Summary of Deposits (SOD), June 30, 2025

Wayne County, Indiana, a core county of the Richmond-Connersville, IN market, holds $3.0B in deposits across 6 insured institutions and 19 branches. Merchants Bank of Indiana is the largest deposit holder at 33.9% share. The top three banks hold 84% of deposits, which places the county in the Concentrated band. Deposits have fallen 26.3% since 2020 while the branch count fell by 13.6%. It produces $3.0B of output, ranking #775 of the 1,523 ranked counties by economic output.

Economic scale
2024 Real GDP
$3.0B
#775 of 1,523
Population
66,169
#797 of 1,523
GDP per Capita
$45,081
#734 of 1,523
Deposit market
Deposits (SOD, 6/30/25)
$3.0B
#492 of 1,523
Deposits per Capita
$45,932
#121 of 1,523
Deposits per Branch
$160M
#163 of 1,523
Competitive structure
Insured Institutions
6
#1,138 of 1,523
Branches per 100k Pop.
28.7
#534 of 1,523
Median Deposits per Institution
$474M
The median deposits booked by a single institution in the county. #44 of 1,523. A lower figure means institutions typically hold smaller deposit positions here; it reflects local deposit presence, not an institution’s overall size. See Community & Regional Bank Share for institution scale.
Community & Regional Bank Share
69.9%
of county deposits held by banks with $100M to $100B in assets. #809 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 Banks’ Deposit Share: Concentrated
84%
The combined deposit share of the top three banks by deposits in the county. A lower share means deposits are spread across more institutions.

Ranks show where the county stands among the 1,523 ranked counties (those within a Combined or Metropolitan Statistical Area that have a branch). They describe relative position, not a rating of market quality or suitability.

Deposit trend

County Deposits (SOD, 2020 to 2025)-26.3% over 5 years
$4.1B
2020
$2.2B
2021
$3.2B
2022
$3.2B
2023
$2.8B
2024
$3.0B
2025

Branches: 22 in 2020 to 19 in 2025. Institutions: 7 to 6. Top-three share: 90% to 84%.

A note on this trend. Merchants Bank of Indiana booked $2.8 billion at a single office in this county in 2020, a headquarters or online-bank booking, not local retail deposits. That balance was booked here in 2020 but was gone by 2025, so the 26.3% decline shown here mainly reflects that reclassification rather than local market activity. Setting such headquarters-booked balances aside, deposits were about $1.4 billion in 2020 and $2.0 billion in 2025. Deposits are recorded where a branch reports them, which can differ from where customers are.

Institutions by deposits

InstitutionDepositsShareBranches5‑yr
deposits
Merchants Bank of Indiana$1.0B33.8%2-63%
First Bank Richmond$787M25.9%7+38%
U.S. Bank$732M24.1%3+100%
Wayne Bank and Trust Co.$216M7.1%3+31%
JPMorgan Chase Bank$182M6.0%2+8%
First Financial Bank$93M3.1%2+42%

The 6 insured institutions with a branch presence in this county, per the FDIC Summary of Deposits, 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. “No 2020 presence” means neither the institution nor a bank it later absorbed reported deposits in this county that year. Deposit figures are nominal and are not adjusted for inflation.

Part of the Richmond-Connersville market

Wayne County is one of 2 counties that make up the Richmond-Connersville, IN market, a Combined Statistical Area (ranked #283 of 293 U.S. markets by economic output). It produces 84.4% of the market’s output and holds 86.3% of its deposits.

MeasureWayne CountyShare of parent market
2024 GDP$3.0B84.4%
Deposits$3.0B86.3%
Population66,16973.8%

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