 TITLE: Credit Scores Lower in States With High Ratios of Delinquent Accounts CONTENT: Consumers in Louisiana Have Highest Ratio of Delinquent Credit Accounts\n-----------------------------------------------------------------------\nWhen it comes to states with the highest ratio of delinquent credit accounts to total credit accounts, Louisiana tops the charts with one in three consumer accounts being delinquent—28.3% in Q2 2019, according to Experian data. That's more than 10 percentage points higher than the national Q2 2019 average of 18%.\nWest Virginia, Oklahoma, Mississippi and South Carolina followed Louisiana as the states with the highest ratio of delinquent to total credit accounts.\n\\*Source: Experian Q2 2019 data END