Represents the amount of funds borrowed by the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) from the employer.

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Represents the term of the loan to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), in 'PnYnMnDTnHnMnS' format, for example, 'P1Y5M13D' represents the reported fact of one year, five months, and thirteen days.

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Represents the number of shares acquired by the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP) in the ESOP employer's initial public offering, expressed as a percentage of the total number of shares issued.

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The reference rate for the variable rate of the debt instrument, such as LIBOR or the US Treasury rate and the maturity of the reference rate used, such as three months or six months LIBOR.

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The amount of plan compensation cost recognized during the period.

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Fair value of unearned shares held by the employee stock ownership plan (ESOP).

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Line items represent financial concepts included in a table. These concepts are used to disclose reportable information associated with domain members defined in one or many axes to the table.

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The shares or units in an ESOP trust that have been assigned to individual participant accounts based on a known formula. IRS rules require allocations to be nondiscriminatory generally based on compensation, length of service, or a combination of both. For any particular participant such shares or units may be vested, unvested, or partially vested.

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Shares contributed to the ESOP that have not yet been released, committed to be released, or allocated to participant accounts. Suspense shares generally collateralize ESOP debt.

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This item represents the number of shares provided to the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) during the period.

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Sum of the allocated, committed-to-be-released and suspense shares of the entity held by the plan.

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Weighted average purchase price of capital shares purchased through an employee stock ownership plan.

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan - Loan, Expense and Shares (Details) - USD ($)		3 Months Ended		6 Months Ended
	Jan. 01, 2009	Jun. 30, 2020	Jun. 30, 2019	Jun. 30, 2020	Jun. 30, 2019	Dec. 31, 2019
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Allocated shares		489,423		489,423		466,807
Unearned shares		415,931		415,931		440,397
Total ESOP shares		905,354		905,354		907,204
Fair value of unearned shares, in thousands		$ 9,895,000		$ 9,895,000		$ 13,626,000
ESOP
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Amount borrowed from employer	$ 9,800,000
Shares purchased	978,650
Percentage of shares issued in initial public offering	8.00%
Employee stock ownership plan, price per share of shares acquired in initial public offering (in dollars per share)	$ 10.00
Term of loan				20 years
ESOP expense		$ 302,000	$ 345,000	$ 641,000	$ 679,000
ESOP \| Prime rate
Employee Stock Ownership Plan
Variable interest rate				prime rate, as published in The Wall Street Journal