 TITLE: Credit Scores Lower in States With High Ratios of Delinquent Accounts CONTENT: Nevada Is Most-Improved State for Late Payments\n-----------------------------------------------\nCompared with Q2 2014, consumers in Nevada saw the largest decrease in their ratio of delinquent credit accounts to total accounts, according to Experian data. In the five-year period, these consumers lowered their ratio of delinquent to average total credit accounts by 17.2%.\nWhile consumers in Nevada had the biggest reduction in late payments over the past five years, the state's 40% delinquency ratio still outranks most of the country. Mississippi and West Virginia, other states where delinquency rates dropped significantly, also continued to rank among the states with the most late payments in Q2 2019.\n\\*Source: Experian Q2 2019 data END