Feasibility Study Data for the Brattleboro, VT Micro Area

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

Brattleboro, VT: what the SBA record contains for Brattleboro

134 SBA approvals landed here for Brattleboro projects between FY2017 and FY2026, carrying $48.0 million across every asset class. Brattleboro holds rank 402 of 928 out of all Brattleboro areas nationwide, with Brattleboro one of them. Loan size centers on $100,000, with half of all loans between $45,425 and $254,500. Brattleboro borrowers borrow less, at 0.48x of the national median.

Brattleboro, VT loans and who holds them around Brattleboro

122 of the Brattleboro approvals were 7(a) loans and 12 were 504 loans; in Brattleboro, 7(a) carries the larger share. Too few loans stand behind the Brattleboro franchise share, so it is withheld and neither given a figure nor treated as zero. 36 loans worth $4.5 million put Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company Brattleboro first among 7(a) holders. 14 loans and $12.0 million belong to Beacon Bank and Trust, in next place. Third on the list is TD Bank, National Association, 13 loans, and EastRise Federal Credit Union at 10. No 504 holder in Brattleboro reaches the five-loan Brattleboro line needed to be named. Lender Brattleboro numbers here are SBA records, nothing more. A threshold for Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company Brattleboro appears for the Brattleboro loans SBA assigns to it; the Brattleboro list neither praises nor faults any holder.

Brattleboro, VT: the class table and county table for Brattleboro

Most of the Brattleboro total sits outside the tracked asset classes: 95 loans that carry codes outside the Brattleboro table. The Brattleboro class rows therefore describe a minority of Brattleboro lending. The Brattleboro class table opens with hotel and motel, 8 loans, Brattleboro then beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries) with 6. Windham County, VT is the largest source of loans, with 134. Demand differs between these counties, so the Brattleboro figure hides some spread.

Brattleboro, VT: outcomes and data limits for Brattleboro

Looking at FY2017 to FY2024 approvals, Brattleboro cancellations came to at least 11.7%; no ceiling is published beside the 11.7% floor, since Loan Analytics withholds it and makes no estimate for Brattleboro. In Brattleboro, no charge-off rate is shown for Brattleboro: too few Brattleboro loans reached the funded cohort, so Brattleboro gets no rate, and a gap never signals none. Volume crested in FY2025, at 22 loans and $5.7 million, and the quietest Brattleboro year before FY2026 was FY2020, at 5 loans and $285,000. Membership in the Brattleboro, VT micro area follows the project county: Windham County, VT and the rest; Brattleboro county membership follows the 2023 Brattleboro delineation, so a loan from an unmatched Brattleboro county appears nowhere.

Brattleboro projects and the study behind them in Brattleboro, VT

Any Brattleboro feasibility study must start from the particular Brattleboro county, because the micro Brattleboro area total blends different markets. Since hotel and motel leads the Brattleboro class table, it has to examine corporate and leisure demand mix and seasonality of occupancy through the year, then room-night demand by segment. Projects in beverage Brattleboro manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries) here the questions are seasonal cash cycles and production capacity and equipment lead times. Debt service coverage in Brattleboro has to survive a weak year; the lender will ask what the Brattleboro building would fetch in a sale. Since Brattleboro loans skew small, a application above the middle Brattleboro half will draw questions the Brattleboro study should answer first.

SBA loans in the Brattleboro, VT Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026134
Gross dollars approved$48.0 million
Median loan$100,000
Middle half of loans, from$45,425
Middle half of loans, to$254,500
SBA 7(a) loans122
SBA 504 loans12
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans402 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.48x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)11.7%
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 loans approved in the Brattleboro, VT Micro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 8Loans, FY2018: 18Loans, FY2019: 15Loans, FY2020: 5Loans, FY2021: 9Loans, FY2022: 10Loans, FY2023: 15Loans, FY2024: 14Loans, FY2025: 22Loans, FY2026: 18
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20178$874,000
FY201818$5.5 million
FY201915$2.9 million
FY20205$285,000
FY20219$4.2 million
FY202210$3.7 million
FY202315$9.2 million
FY202414$5.3 million
FY202522$5.7 million
FY202618$10.1 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes95
Hotel and motel8
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)6

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
Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company36$4.5 million
Beacon Bank and Trust14$12.0 million
TD Bank, National Association13$916,000
EastRise Federal Credit Union10$740,200
Savings Bank of Walpole5$387,500

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
Windham County, VT134

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-14710.

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