Feasibility Study Data for the Carson City, NV Metro Area

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

The scale of lending near Carson City

Across Carson City, the agency's approval files list 167 approved loans over FY2017 through FY2026, totalling $123.3 million in gross dollars. Carson City ranks against the full set of areas, by loans, at rank 349 of 928. The central half of Carson City approvals spans $70,000 to $947,250, around a median of $297,000; that puts the median at 1.43x the nationwide median. In Carson City the program mix is 136 loans in 7(a) against 31 under 504. Franchised units took 12.0% of the record.

Carson City: classes and counties

Beyond that, across the tracked classes we list for Carson City, full-service restaurant comes first with 7 loans, and then hotel and motel with 6 and medical office with 5. Also 121 loans in Carson City sit outside every class. Every loan in Carson City falls in Carson City, NV, at 167 loans, which makes our work around Carson City a matter of one county only.

Carson City: lenders on record

Institutions named for Carson City appear in SBA's published Carson City records of the 167 SBA loans in Carson City, by present or former holder; the records show each position though offer nothing on lender practice. Besides, in the 7(a) program near Carson City, NV, SBA lists U.S. Bank, National Association ($3.3 million across 23 loans); next, Wells Fargo Bank National Association, holding 15 loans worth $7.1 million. Under 504 in Carson City, SBA names Nevada State Development Corporation, holding 25 loans worth $25.8 million. An applicant in Carson City is free to ask the leading Carson City holder U.S. Bank, National Association or other Carson City holders near Carson City, NV what paperwork it requires, then shape the Carson City study to satisfy those requests.

Carson City: loss floors and years

Looking at Carson City approvals from FY2017 through FY2024, not below 12.6% were cancelled after approval in Carson City, which is a floor; the true Carson City figure can only be higher. Next, a loss rate from charge-off for Carson City is not shown on this page, since too few Carson City loans funded. That omission, near Carson City, NV, should never be read as no losses. Notably, across the years, Carson City reached its high in FY2018 at 22 loans and $7.2 million, and dipped to its lowest in FY2020 at 10 loans and $5.9 million.

Carson City: what a study tests

In Carson City, demand comes first: who shops in Carson City, NV, who visits from nearby, measured against Carson City as a whole, and how much room 7 full-service restaurant loans leave. Budget: $297,000 is the Carson City median and $70,000 to $947,250 the central range, so a Carson City, NV site should cost itself against this $297,000 median. Then coverage: Carson City coverage survives a slow year against with the 12.6% cancellation floor with the charge-off rate for Carson City, which is also held back as its cohort is small. The Carson City appraisal has to support the figure lent against. Carson City follows the 2023 July definition; a loan whose county entry fails to match falls out of each area, Carson City included, but the totals count loans sitting outside the named classes.

SBA loans in the Carson City, NV Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026167
Gross dollars approved$123.3 million
Median loan$297,000
Middle half of loans, from$70,000
Middle half of loans, to$947,250
SBA 7(a) loans136
SBA 504 loans31
Franchise share of loans12.0%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans349 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.43x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)12.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)12.6%
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 Carson City, NV Metro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 20Loans, FY2018: 22Loans, FY2019: 16Loans, FY2020: 10Loans, FY2021: 16Loans, FY2022: 13Loans, FY2023: 17Loans, FY2024: 21Loans, FY2025: 21Loans, FY2026: 11
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201720$8.3 million
FY201822$7.2 million
FY201916$10.2 million
FY202010$5.9 million
FY202116$13.7 million
FY202213$12.2 million
FY202317$13.9 million
FY202421$21.2 million
FY202521$14.4 million
FY202611$16.3 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes121
Full-service restaurant7
Hotel and motel6
Medical office (physicians)5
Liquor store5

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

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Nevada State Development Corporation25$25.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
U.S. Bank, National Association23$3.3 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association15$7.1 million
Zions Bancorporation, National Association13$9.6 million
Plumas Bank5$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
Carson City, NV167

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-16180.

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