To fulfill its mission under the Community Reinvestment Act, which government agency provides online data regarding census information, income data, and metropolitan area data for various locations?

• A. Federal Reserve
• B. FFIEC
• C. HUD
• D. U.S. Census Bureau

Answer: (B)

The agency in charge of providing online data for CRA purposes is the FFIEC. This interagency body offers data tools that bring together census information, income data, and metropolitan area definitions for many locations, specifically to support how banks assess and plan their CRA activities. While the Census Bureau supplies the raw census and income data, the FFIEC makes it easy to access and use this information in a CRA context, compiling it into location-based resources that examiners and lenders rely on. The other options play different roles in regulation or data provision, but the FFIEC is the one that centralizes these CRA-focused online data tools.