Provident Financial Holdings provides community and mortgage banking services to consumers and small to mid-sized businesses in the Inland Empire region of Southern California. The Company operates through two segments: Provident Bank and Provident Bank Mortgage. The Company's Provident Bank offers community banking activities. Provident Bank Mortgage offers mortgage banking activities. The Company's community banking activities primarily consist of accepting deposits from customers within the communities surrounding the Bank's full service offices and investing those funds in single-family loans, multi-family loans, commercial real estate loans, construction loans, commercial business loans, consumer loans and other real estate loans. The Company's mortgage banking activities consist of the origination, purchase and sale of mortgage loans secured primarily by single-family residences.