The average credit score in America is 715. Find out how yours compares in this full report by Motley Fool Money.

NerdWallet's free credit score simulator can help estimate the impact of financial decisions on credit. Other tools can help you see where your money is going.

Three little numbers can drastically alter the course of your financial life. Credit scores are a key tenet of American consumer financing [1], used by lenders to judge how well an individual can pay ...

Lenders use your three-digit credit score as a way to predict how likely a borrower is to repay a loan like a mortgage on time. Higher scores signal a great likelihood of repaying a loan; lower ...

Credit scoring generates a three-digit score that ranks a borrower's riskiness. Here's how credit scoring works and how to improve your credit score.

A higher credit score can help you qualify for a lower mortgage interest rate.

Bumping your score from the “fair” range to the “very good” range could save you a whopping $41,000 on your mortgage (and thousands on student, car and personal loans, too).