Auto Repair Shop Feasibility Study in the Springfield, MO Metro Area

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

Auto repair shop in Springfield against the national picture

Springfield, MO stands 48 of 660 among metro and micro areas, with 42 SBA approvals from FY2017 to FY2026 worth $14.8 million. Springfield's auto repair shop share of loans is 1.54x of the national share: Springfield favors the class heavily. Ranked inside Springfield, the class sits 2 of 39, a top-tier line. Each Springfield project county is in MO.

A Springfield loan at the median is $186,000; the middle half of loans runs from $102,000 to $482,000. The local median is 0.79x the median nationally for the class, so Springfield borrowers draw lighter loans. Of Springfield's loans, 36 are 7(a) and 6 are 504, shaping each request. Springfield 504 files rest on property and equipment. Franchising among loans in Springfield is 0.00%, a brand gauge. Springfield sponsors should treat it as context.

Springfield holders and counties for auto repair shop

Among 7(a) loans in Springfield, SBA records these holders OakStar Bank, with 6 loans worth $1.4 million; and Regent Bank, with 5 loans worth $4.3 million. For SBA 504 in Springfield, Rural Missouri, Inc., with 6 loans worth $3.0 million. Each Springfield row is an SBA record. These Springfield loans sit with the lenders named. Springfield rows speak to files, not policy. Springfield rows state no lender requirement. Across Springfield counties, 23 loans sit in Greene County, MO; next come Christian County, MO with 11.

The yearly record for Springfield lists FY2018: 7 loans, $1.1 million and FY2021: 11 loans, $5.8 million. FY2017, FY2019, FY2020 and FY2022 through FY2026 stay blank for Springfield on thin counts, and Springfield blanks say nothing about activity. Springfield's cancellation floor is not shown. Thin Springfield cohorts leave no floor to print. Springfield has no published charge-off floor. In Springfield, a thin cohort means unpublished. Counts for Springfield use the 2023 federal definition, and each Springfield project is placed by county, while Springfield leaves out unplaced counties. Truck service near Springfield cannot be told apart from car repair, and paint jobs, windshield work and oil changes sit outside this class.

Proving a auto repair shop project in Springfield

From this auto repair shop record in Springfield, MO, a study moves to a single parcel. Springfield reviewers will check which work falls outside the class. Each Springfield study must establish how a new owner keeps repeat customers. In Springfield, underwriters will ask the study to address warranty and parts inventory cost. In Springfield, we start by examining bay count against technician supply. A Springfield study begins by testing real estate apart from equipment. Springfield tests demand, cost, coverage and value. Springfield lenders receive a file to examine.

SBA automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans in the Springfield, MO Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202642
Gross dollars approved$14.8 million
Median loan$186,000
Middle half of loans, from$102,000
Middle half of loans, to$482,000
SBA 7(a) loans36
SBA 504 loans6
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) loans48 of 660
Rank of automotive mechanical repair (car and truck) among the classes in this area2 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.54x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.79x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)withheld
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 Springfield, MO Metro Area, by fiscal year

02.557.51012.5FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 7Loans, FY2021: 11
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20187$1.1 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY202111$5.8 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Rural Missouri, Inc.6$3.0 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
OakStar Bank6$1.4 million
Regent Bank5$4.3 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
Greene County, MO23
Christian County, MO11

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-44180-C28.

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