Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank Reviews: Assets, Branches and

Reading the Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank reviews data on this page

Start with one distinction: what we publish for Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank are medians, not averages.

A median is the midpoint: half of the institution sits above it and half below. Averages get dragged around by a handful of extreme values — one very expensive property, one unusually large loan, one graduate earning far more than their classmates — so a median is the safer number to plan against. Total assets of $69 million and branch count of 1.

Use them to frame opening a savings, checking or CD account rather than to settle it. Your circumstances — credit, timing, the specific offer in front of you — move the outcome more than the local midpoint does.

What these numbers mean for savers comparing where to keep their money

Context does most of the work here. A number is only high or low next to something else, so we publish Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank and how it sits inside Pennsylvania against a wider benchmark on the same measure. Headquarters of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A difference of a few percent is inside the survey's own margin of error. A difference of a quarter or more is real, and it normally reflects the housing mix, the dominant local industries, or how much of the population is retired rather than working.

The useful habit is to pair every figure with the cost it has to cover. Income against rent, loan size against income, price against what the same money buys one county over.

Five checks worth running first

None of this needs a spreadsheet. It needs the discipline of checking the same handful of things every time, whether you are opening a savings, checking or CD account for the first time or the fifth.

• Confirm the rate you were quoted is the standard rate, not a promotional tier that resets after a few months.
• Check the minimum balance and the monthly maintenance fee, which can quietly outweigh the interest earned.
• Compare at least three offers. Pricing on the same product varies more between providers than most people expect, and the gap is yours to keep.
• Check the fee schedule and the fine print, not the headline rate — that is where the real cost usually hides.
• Ask what the number looks like in a bad year, not an average one, and make sure the plan still holds.
• Write down the monthly number you can genuinely cover, not the maximum a lender or admissions office says you qualify for.

Putting Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank next to the alternatives

Comparison is the fastest way to tell a genuinely unusual institution from an ordinary one. We benchmark Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank against Pennsylvania and against the national picture on the same definitions, in the same period, so the difference you see is a real difference rather than an artefact of two datasets disagreeing.

Most contradictory statistics you meet online are definition mismatches rather than errors. Gross versus net, occupied versus advertised, applications versus originations: each pair produces a different headline from the same underlying reality.

Any measure the source flags as unreliable is dropped rather than smoothed. That is why some pages carry fewer figures than others: the institution itself is thinly sampled.

Questions people ask about Tioga-Franklin Savings Bank

Method and limitations

The page is assembled from quarterly regulatory filings, specifically the FDIC Institution Directory and Summary of Deposits (2026-09-16). Nothing here is modelled from a proprietary black box: every figure traces to a published record, and where we derive a ratio we show both inputs so the arithmetic can be checked.

Three limits are worth stating plainly. Survey estimates carry a margin of error that widens as the area gets smaller. Reporting lags mean the most recent period on file is not the present. And a median cannot describe the tails — the cheapest and most expensive ends of any institution sit outside it by definition.

Where a source revises a figure, the revised value replaces the old one rather than sitting alongside it, so the page always reflects the current official position. If you spot a number that looks wrong, it is worth telling us — corrections get made against the source record, not by guesswork.