Investments in Affiliated Companies - Summary Balance Sheets (Parenthetical) (Detail)	Sep. 30, 2016	Dec. 31, 2015
Majority-Owned Subsidiary, Unconsolidated [Member] \| Common Stock [Member]
Percent of common stock of HopFed Bancorp, Inc.	100.00%	100.00%

The percentage of ownership of common stock or equity participation in the investee accounted for under the equity method of accounting.

Reference 1: http://www.xbrl.org/2003/role/presentationRef
-Publisher FASB
-Name Accounting Standards Codification
-Topic 323
-SubTopic 10
-Section 50
-Paragraph 3
-Subparagraph (a)(1)
-URI http://asc.fasb.org/extlink&oid=66011266&loc=d3e33918-111571

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