Auto Repair Shop Feasibility Study in the Albuquerque, NM Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) lending in the Albuquerque, NM Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Bernalillo County does most of the work

Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) is shown at 4 of 39 among Albuquerque's classes, and Albuquerque is shown at 56 of 660 for it nationally. Of the 35 approvals made between FY2017 and FY2026, worth $13.4 million, Bernalillo County holds 29. Set beside the national mix, Albuquerque yields 1.56x: automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans take a larger share there. Nothing in the Albuquerque cell is labelled distinctive.

At $350,000, the median loan is 1.49x the national median across mechanical repair, so local requests run larger than the class nationally, and what they financed is not recorded. Most ordinary loans sit between $142,000 and $567,500. Program split and franchise share are not shown. Use the Albuquerque automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) figures as a record of SBA loans, never a forecast; a automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) plan in Albuquerque still has to prove its own revenue.

A holder and three years

$2.8 million of the 7(a) loans, 6 in number, sit with BMO Bank National Association. A holder is named; how lenders choose borrowers is outside these figures. Three years are shown: FY2019 with 7 loans and $2.3 million, FY2021 at 5 loans and $1.9 million, and FY2024: no loans and $0, a real count for a complete fiscal year.

Loan Analytics leaves out Albuquerque's both loss-side rates given that the Albuquerque FY2017 to FY2021 group holds under 30 loans, and in Albuquerque Loan Analytics' own rule takes over. A withheld rate in Albuquerque is unknown, not nil. The class has coding limits. The code that covers car repair also takes truck repair shops, so truck service cannot be split out. Body, paint and interior work, windshield and glass work, oil changes and all other automotive repair lie outside the class, so a shop that mixes those services is only partly represented in these figures.

Proving up a project in Albuquerque

A repair shop in the Albuquerque area has to be sized in bays and technicians, with the services offered tied to the equipment bill and a named source of skilled labour. Payment cover belongs on a loan near $350,000 with a gradual first year beside it. Where the building is bought or built, an appraisal must carry its cost apart from the shop's value. The federal delineation draws Albuquerque; so loans from counties Albuquerque cannot place stay absent from the totals.

SBA automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans in the Albuquerque, NM Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202635
Gross dollars approved$13.4 million
Median loan$350,000
Middle half of loans, from$142,000
Middle half of loans, to$567,500
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans56 of 660
Rank of automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) among the classes in this area4 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.56x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.49x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)withheld

Both rates are floors. SBA withholds the status of open loans, so a loan counts as charged off only once SBA reports it; a rate needs at least 30 loans in its cohort and is otherwise not reported.

SBA automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans approved in the Albuquerque, NM Metro Area, by fiscal year

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2019: 7Loans, FY2021: 5Loans, FY2024: 0
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY20197$2.3 million
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20215$1.9 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20240$0
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
BMO Bank National Association6$2.8 million

Lenders with 5 or more loans here; a lender with fewer is not listed, and loans SBA or a receiver holds are counted but never listed as a lender.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Bernalillo County, NM29

Counties with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are not listed.

Metro is the CBSA (metropolitan or micropolitan statistical area) of the loan's project county, July 2023 delineation (OMB Bulletin 23-01). The county is matched by name (manifests/ld2/county-cbsa-map.csv); a loan whose county cannot be placed in a 2023 CBSA is left out of every metro.

Truck service cannot be separated from car repair. Not in this class: body, paint and interior 811121, glass 811122, oil change 811191 and all other automotive repair 811198.

Shared code: Truck repair shops are indexed to 811111 with car repair.

A value marked withheld rests on fewer than 5 loans, or is withheld so that such a figure cannot be derived from other published figures.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 loan-level FOIA files (data.sba.gov), as of 2026-09-30; areas from the U.S. Census Bureau CBSA delineation, July 2023 (OMB Bulletin 23-01); Loan Analytics metro cell MA-10740-C28.

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