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 FY202625
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) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for child care center loans66 of 493
Rank of child care center among the classes in this area10 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.67x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.22x

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

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Manufacturers and Traders Trust Company9$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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