Beauty Salon Feasibility Study in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about beauty salon lending in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

How Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario ranks for beauty salon

Among the 546 areas ranked, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA comes in 28th; SBA approved 67 loans there from FY2017 to FY2026, worth $19.1 million. Measured against the nation, Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario's beauty salon share is 0.52x of the national share: Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario leans away from the class. Ranked inside Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, the class sits 12 of 39, a mid-sized piece. Each Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario project county is in CA.

In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, the median loan is $50,100, and the central loans span $25,000 to $172,750. That median is 0.50x the median nationally for the class, so Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario loans run smaller. Loan Analytics withholds the program split here because the cohorts behind it are under 30 loans; an empty cell here means unpublished, not none. In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, franchised loans make up 13.4% of the class, a brand gauge. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario borrowers can read that as context.

Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario holders and counties for beauty salon

Among 7(a) loans in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, the holders on record, by loans, are U.S. Bank, National Association, 17 loans for $863,700; Wells Fargo Bank National Association, 8 loans for $2.3 million; Readycap Lending, LLC, 5 loans for $419,000; and Northeast Bank (ME), 5 loans for $280,000. No 504 holder is listed for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario. The rows are SBA records, and the lenders named hold or held the loans. Nothing in these figures describes how any lender behaves. Across Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario counties, Riverside County, CA holds 40 loans, followed by San Bernardino County, CA with 27.

The yearly record for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario lists FY2017 (9 loans, $1.8 million), FY2018 (12 loans, $4.6 million), FY2022 (6 loans, $301,000), FY2023 (7 loans, $5.2 million) and FY2024 (11 loans, $4.6 million). Every other fiscal year in the span is left blank on thin counts, and a blank says nothing about how much lending took place. Approvals from FY2017 to FY2024 in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario were cancelled afterward, at a floor of 16.7%, a floor. For Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, no charge-off floor is printed. Thin Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario cohorts mean unpublished, not none. Counts for Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario use the 2023 federal definition, which places each loan by its project county and leaves out loans whose county cannot be matched.

Proving a beauty salon project in Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario

This beauty salon record sets context, and a study supplies proof. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario borrowers should expect the study to document repeat clients and first-year bookings. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario analysis should establish coverage if the owner's chair underproduces. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario reviewers will check equipment value against the price paid. For Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, we would first examine stylist turnover and its cost. In Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, underwriters will ask the study to address booth rent against commission models. For Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario: demand, cost, coverage, value. Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario lenders receive a file to examine.

SBA beauty salon loans in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202667
Gross dollars approved$19.1 million
Median loan$50,100
Middle half of loans, from$25,000
Middle half of loans, to$172,750
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans13.4%
Rank among metro and micro areas for beauty salon loans28 of 546
Rank of beauty salon among the classes in this area12 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.52x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.50x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)16.7%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)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 beauty salon loans approved in the Riverside-San Bernardino-Ontario, CA Metro Area, by fiscal year

02.557.51012.5FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 9Loans, FY2018: 12Loans, FY2022: 6Loans, FY2023: 7Loans, FY2024: 11
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20179$1.8 million
FY201812$4.6 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY20226$301,000
FY20237$5.2 million
FY202411$4.6 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
U.S. Bank, National Association17$863,700
Wells Fargo Bank National Association8$2.3 million
Readycap Lending, LLC5$419,000
Northeast Bank (ME)5$280,000

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
Riverside County, CA40
San Bernardino County, CA27

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.

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-40140-C38.

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