Origination of FHA-insured mortgage loans exceeding $417,000 were concentrated mostly in five states in 2011 even as jumbo loan production dropped further on both monthly and year-to-year bases, according to Inside FHA Lending’s analysis of the latest FHA data. California, New York, Virginia, New Jersey and Maryland accounted for 85.7 percent of the FHA jumbo market in 2011, with lenders reporting $18.2 billion in total originations, down 34.9 percent from 2010 and 2.5 percent from the third to the fourth quarter. California led all states in 2011 in FHA jumbo origination ($8.73 billion) and market share (48.0 percent). Production on a quarterly basis was ... [Two charts]