Child Care Center Feasibility Study in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area
What SBA's own loan files show about child care center lending in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.
Buffalo-Cheektowaga: child care center lending
Across Buffalo-Cheektowaga, between FY2017 and FY2026, SBA approved 25 child care center loans, adding up to $11.5 million in gross approvals. In Buffalo-Cheektowaga, child care center lending stands 10 of 39 among the asset classes, while Buffalo-Cheektowaga stands at 66 of 493 in metro and micro areas ranked by child care center loans. Buffalo-Cheektowaga's location quotient is 0.67x, below the national share. The median loan for Buffalo-Cheektowaga is $100,000. The middle half of Buffalo-Cheektowaga loans runs from $20,000 to $214,000, and the median is a ratio of 0.22x to the class median nationally. Buffalo-Cheektowaga child care loans are very small: a median of $100,000 at 0.22x of the nationwide class median, with a middle half from $20,000 to $214,000. Tenth in the local table (10 of 39), the class carries a 0.67x location quotient. Nine SBA 7(a) loans, worth $145,400, sit with Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company.
The split of Buffalo-Cheektowaga loans between the two programs is left unprinted by Loan Analytics, as each program holds only a handful. The franchise share of Buffalo-Cheektowaga loans stands at 0.00%, which means no franchise brands appear in this Buffalo-Cheektowaga cell. The Buffalo-Cheektowaga lender tables show that Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company appears with $145,400 in 9 SBA 7(a) loans. Buffalo-Cheektowaga's holder lines record current holders only. Buffalo-Cheektowaga applicants gain no evidence of institution requirements from them.
Buffalo-Cheektowaga: years, floors and limits
For Buffalo-Cheektowaga there are no year-by-year series on this page. A cancellation rate for Buffalo-Cheektowaga: held back, fewer than 30 loans in all. Any Buffalo-Cheektowaga charge-off rate: withheld, under 30 loans. Buffalo-Cheektowaga uses Loan Analytics' own floor. Buffalo-Cheektowaga's FY2017 to FY2021 group is short. Buffalo-Cheektowaga uses the 2023 July list. Each loan reaches Buffalo-Cheektowaga by way of its county. Buffalo-Cheektowaga leaves out unmatched loans. In Buffalo-Cheektowaga, in-home child care sits in one code with Buffalo-Cheektowaga centers. Buffalo-Cheektowaga family child care homes can not be split out.
Buffalo-Cheektowaga: what to test
A Buffalo-Cheektowaga child care study should be built for loans of this scale: a modest fit-out or equipment purchase, licensed capacity, the enrolment curve from opening and the staffing the licence requires. A project far above $214,000 will need its own evidence. Because the class combines family homes with centers, state whether the plan is a home or a center. Show the loan payment covered at part-filled enrolment. No year-by-year table is printed, so supply local evidence of demand from your own enrolment waitlist.
SBA child care center loans in the Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY Metro Area
| Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026 | 25 |
|---|---|
| Gross dollars approved | $11.5 million |
| Median loan | $100,000 |
| Middle half of loans, from | $20,000 |
| Middle half of loans, to | $214,000 |
| SBA 7(a) loans | withheld |
| SBA 504 loans | withheld |
| Franchise share of loans | 0.00% |
| Rank among metro and micro areas for child care center loans | 66 of 493 |
| Rank of child care center among the classes in this area | 10 of 39 |
| Location quotient (share of loans against the national share) | 0.67x |
| Median loan against the national median for the class | 0.22x |
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.
Approvals by fiscal year are withheld for this area, so that no year of fewer than 5 loans can be derived.
Most active SBA lenders
| Lender | Loans | Dollars |
|---|---|---|
| Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company | 9 | $145,400 |
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.
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.
Family child care homes cannot be separated from centers.
Shared code: 624410 also holds in-home child care.
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-15380-C36.
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