Age at which employee ESOP participants may begin to diversify their ESOP shares into other investments.

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan ESOP Compensation Expense Including Dividends On Unallocated Shares In Excess Of Debt Service Payments

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Number Of Shares Acquired By Employee Stock Ownership Plan Post Corporate Reorganization

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Number of shares acquired by employee stock ownership plan.

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Percentage of Employee Stock Ownership Plan shares diversified

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Portion Of Compensation Expense Related To ESOP Attributable To Changes In Company Stock Price

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Number of allocated shares held by the Employee Stock Ownership Plan at balance sheet date. Allocated shares are shares that have been assigned to individual participant accounts based on a known formula.

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Date when the debt instrument is scheduled to be fully repaid, in CCYY-MM-DD format.

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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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Dividends paid on stock held by an employee stock ownership plan.

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The shares that, although not legally released, will be released by a future scheduled and committed debt service payment and will be allocated to employees for service rendered in the current accounting period. The ESOP documents typically define the period of service to which the shares relate. ESOP shares are released to compensate employees directly, to settle employer liabilities for other employee benefits, and to replace dividends on allocated shares that are used for debt service.

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Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Narrative) (Details) - USD ($) $ in Thousands	12 Months Ended
	Sep. 30, 2020	Sep. 30, 2019	Sep. 30, 2018	Sep. 30, 2021
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Disclosures [Line Items]
Shares Held In Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Allocated	165,198
Compensation expense related to the ESOP including dividends	$ 2,000	$ 3,100	$ 2,900
Portion of compensation expense related to the ESOP attributable to changes in Company stock price	336	549	541
Dividends on unallocated ESOP shares in excess of debt service payments	$ 0	$ 906	$ 688
Forecast [Member]
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Disclosures [Line Items]
Shares Held In Employee Stock Ownership Plan, Committed-to-be-Released				165,198
Minimum [Member]
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Disclosures [Line Items]
Percentage of ESOP shares participant may diversify once age requirement is met	25.00%
Required age of participant in order to diversify ESOP shares, years	50
IPO [Member]
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Disclosures [Line Items]
Number of shares acquired by ESOP trust	3,024,574
Number of shares acquired by ESOP post corporate reorganization	6,846,728
ESOP loan maturity date	Sep. 30, 2013
Corporate Reorganization [Member]
Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) Disclosures [Line Items]
Number of shares acquired by ESOP trust	4,726,000
ESOP loan maturity date	Sep. 30, 2040