Feasibility Study Data for the Bellefontaine, OH Micro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Bellefontaine, OH Micro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Bellefontaine: volume, rank and ticket size across Bellefontaine, OH

SBA approved 105 loans for projects in the Bellefontaine, OH micro area between FY2017 and FY2026, for $23.9 million gross. Bellefontaine holds rank 457 of 928 against every other statistical area, Bellefontaine among them. A typical Bellefontaine loan is $80,700; the middle half of approvals run from $25,000 to $241,000. The national comparison is plain: at 0.39x of the national median. Nationally, Bellefontaine loans run larger than they do here.

Bellefontaine lenders and the programs they use in Bellefontaine, OH

The 7(a) and 504 counts for Bellefontaine are withheld at the source because each rests on very few loans, so no number replaces them here. The Bellefontaine franchise share is withheld since too few Bellefontaine loans stand behind it, so it is neither Bellefontaine given a figure nor treated as zero. In 7(a), the biggest Bellefontaine holder is The Huntington National Bank: 63 loans, $5.9 million in all. 8 loans and $2.2 million Bellefontaine belong to U.S. Bank, National Association, in second place. Lender sums here are SBA records, nothing more. A line for The Huntington National Bank Bellefontaine appears where SBA gives it as the Bellefontaine holder; nothing here speaks to what U.S. Bank, National Association asks of an applicant.

Bellefontaine, OH: which classes and counties lead Bellefontaine

The larger share of the Bellefontaine record falls outside the class table: 90 loans that carry codes outside the Bellefontaine table. The Bellefontaine class rows therefore describe a minority of Bellefontaine lending. The Bellefontaine class table opens with full-service restaurant, 5 loans. By county, Logan County, OH accounts for 105 loans. Land, rents and rivals vary by Bellefontaine county, so the Bellefontaine figure hides some spread.

Bellefontaine, OH: reading the outcome floors for Bellefontaine

No cancellation rate is printed for Bellefontaine, its cohort being too small; the gap is a limit of the Bellefontaine data and not a count of zero. No charge-off rate is shown for Bellefontaine: too few Bellefontaine loans reached the funded cohort, so Bellefontaine gets no Bellefontaine rate, and a gap never means none. Volume crested in FY2024, at 22 loans and $5.3 million, and the quietest Bellefontaine year before FY2026 was FY2022, at 7 loans and $457,000. Years that rest on very few Bellefontaine loans are withheld from the Bellefontaine table, and no stand-in Bellefontaine figure is supplied for them. Bellefontaine is built from project counties such as Logan County, OH. Then the 2023 Bellefontaine delineation of statistical areas draws the line, though a county with no Bellefontaine name match adds nothing to Bellefontaine.

Bellefontaine, OH: what a Bellefontaine feasibility study has to test

Any Bellefontaine feasibility study must start from the particular Bellefontaine county, because the micro Bellefontaine area total blends different markets. Reading the Bellefontaine table from the top, Bellefontaine full-service restaurant comes first, and expect scrutiny of the lunch and dinner balance, plus the lease term against payback and how Bellefontaine diners split by daypart. A Bellefontaine operator's coverage must hold in a soft year; value has to be proven with Bellefontaine comparables from the same trade area. Since Bellefontaine loans skew small, a larger Bellefontaine request will draw questions the Bellefontaine study should answer first.

SBA loans in the Bellefontaine, OH Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026105
Gross dollars approved$23.9 million
Median loan$80,700
Middle half of loans, from$25,000
Middle half of loans, to$241,000
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans457 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.39x

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 loans approved in the Bellefontaine, OH Micro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 13Loans, FY2018: 11Loans, FY2020: 13Loans, FY2022: 7Loans, FY2023: 11Loans, FY2024: 22Loans, FY2025: 13Loans, FY2026: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201713$4.5 million
FY201811$914,600
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY202013$888,500
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY20227$457,000
FY202311$843,400
FY202422$5.3 million
FY202513$4.7 million
FY20266$2.6 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes90
Full-service restaurant5

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
The Huntington National Bank63$5.9 million
U.S. Bank, National Association8$2.2 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
Logan County, OH105

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.

All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.

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 MT-13340.

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