Revolving and installment
utilization calculations use the following formulas to measure your credit usage, with lower percentages always being best for your score:
Not exact matches
Credit bureaus
use your credit
utilization ratio as part of the
calculation to find your credit score.
Amounts owed (30 percent of your score) Another set of scoring
calculations where you essentially can't have too much of a good thing are those factors that measure how much of your available credit you're
using: credit card
utilization (balance / limit ratio).
In the case of credit
utilization, that can mean
using roughly less than one - third of your available credit at any given time, since a credit
utilization rate is considered in the scoring
calculation.
Your credit
utilization is
used in the
calculation of your score.
Then, going forward, you'll want to continue reducing those balances further,
using these same
calculations until your individual and combined
utilization percentages fall within the 1 - 9 percent range.
Credit
utilization is simply a
calculation of how much of your credit you are currently
using.
Regardless of the type
used, information like an individual's account payment history, number of accounts open and
used, credit
utilization percentage, and any negative credit issues are all included in the
calculation of one's credit score.
Charge card and credit card scoring impacts One thing you may also be referring to with your comment about the role of previously reported debt, is how past charge card balances were
used in the early years of credit scoring to include charge cards along with credit cards in revolving
utilization calculations.
Tip:
Using a charge card for large purchases can help reduce the impact on your credit score, as charge cards are excluded from
utilization calculations.