Feasibility Study Data for the Cambridge, OH Micro Area

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

Cambridge: volume, rank and loan size

For Cambridge, SBA shows $31.2 million on 103 loans, FY2017 to FY2026. By loan count, Cambridge stands 462 of 928 among all areas. Cambridge loans center on $50,000, the median. $30,000 to $154,100 spans the Cambridge middle half. Set beside the nation, Cambridge stands at 0.24x. The Cambridge program split is withheld, with too few Cambridge loans behind one program. Cambridge shows a franchise share of 9.7%. Cambridge dollars add to $31.2 million.

Cambridge: classes and counties

Cambridge leaders: limited-service restaurant (6), then medical office (5), then full-service restaurant (5). 76 Cambridge loans sit in no tracked class. Most Cambridge credit is general business lending. Cambridge consists of Guernsey County, OH, where SBA places 103 loans.

Cambridge: SBA holders

In Cambridge, a holder can differ from the maker. Cambridge 7(a) holders include 16 loans at The Community Bank ($1.6 million) and 5 loans at U.S. Bank, National Association ($393,900). No Cambridge 504 lender meets the listing minimum. A Cambridge borrower reads these rows as context. The Cambridge rows are silent on holder terms.

Cambridge: outcome rates and data limits

Cambridge has too few approvals for a rate. Cambridge cancellations are withheld, not zero. No Cambridge charge-off rate prints. The Cambridge cohort is below the minimum. Read Cambridge as neither zero nor clean. Treat Cambridge rates as floors. Later events lift them, Cambridge included. In Cambridge, a county name places each loan. For Cambridge, the July 2023 list governs. Cambridge omits loans with no county match. The Cambridge total includes loans outside the classes.

Cambridge: testing a project

The Cambridge trend peaks in FY2022 with 17 loans ($2.7 million) and bottoms in FY2026 with 6 ($6.0 million). FY2017 opened the Cambridge series with 11 loans ($5.5 million). FY2026 closes the Cambridge series at 6 loans, $6.0 million. Years withheld for Cambridge had too few loans; none is a zero year. A Cambridge study weighs local demand against Guernsey County, OH competitors, not national patterns. The Cambridge median is $50,000. Set Cambridge budgets beside it; nationally it is 0.24x. Cambridge coverage is stressed with slower ramp-up. Cambridge reviewers will weigh the floors above. Cambridge value is tested against cost by appraisal. Cambridge comparables decide how. Absorption near Guernsey County, OH is tested for Cambridge on a slow case. The Cambridge study states its limits beside Guernsey County, OH findings.

SBA loans in the Cambridge, OH Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026103
Gross dollars approved$31.2 million
Median loan$50,000
Middle half of loans, from$30,000
Middle half of loans, to$154,100
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans9.7%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans462 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.24x

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 Cambridge, OH Micro Area, by fiscal year

05101520FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 11Loans, FY2020: 12Loans, FY2021: 8Loans, FY2022: 17Loans, FY2023: 15Loans, FY2024: 15Loans, FY2025: 12Loans, FY2026: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201711$5.5 million
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY202012$1.9 million
FY20218$7.7 million
FY202217$2.7 million
FY202315$2.5 million
FY202415$2.3 million
FY202512$1.6 million
FY20266$6.0 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes76
Limited-service restaurant6
Medical office (physicians)5
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 Bank50$3.6 million
The Community Bank16$1.6 million
Peoples Bank (OH)14$3.5 million
U.S. Bank, National Association5$393,900

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
Guernsey County, OH103

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-15740.

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