Any other questions
about average age of accounts or how credit scores are calculated?
Not exact matches
At the same time, being careful and cautious
about opening new
accounts can be helpful as well, since these younger
accounts can affect the
average age of all your
accounts.
Average premiums in the nongroup market would increase by
about 10 percent in most years
of the decade (with no changes in the
ages of people purchasing insurance
accounted for) relative to CBO's baseline projections.
To achieve an excellent score, you need to be especially careful
about shutting down long - standing
accounts, and you shouldn't open too many new
accounts at once, since this can drag down the
average age of your
accounts.
On this blog we often talk
about something called your
average age of accounts (AAoA), we've had a few e-mail queries recently
about how this is calculate and how it affects your credit score.
Not only does closing the card do nothing to remove either the inquiry or new
account that left your score lower, closing it won't prevent the card's very short credit history from unfavorably impacting the scoring calculations —
average account age, oldest and newest
account age, for example — that make up the length
of credit history scoring category (
about 15 percent
of your score).
At the same time, being careful and cautious
about opening new
accounts can be helpful as well, since these younger
accounts can affect the
average age of all your
accounts.
My score rebounded thereafter and is continuing to increase as the number
of inquiries on my
account in the past 12 months decreases, my
average age of accounts increases and my credit utilization improved significantly from
about 21 % to 3 % thanks to these new
accounts.
A great thing
about these business credit cards is that there's no pressure to keep them open because you're not going to be affecting your
average age of accounts.
The report also revealed that for those with a fair credit score (650), the
average age of credit
accounts is approximately 7 years old, with the
average oldest
account opened
about 12 years ago.