Feasibility Study Data for the Concord, NH Micro Area

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

The Concord record in brief

For Concord, SBA's own files record 618 approved loans from FY2017 to FY2026, totalling $156.4 million of gross dollars. Concord stands against the whole list of areas, by loans, in place 149 of 928. The middle half of Concord loans sits between $42,500 and $246,575, and Concord's median loan of $100,000 equals 0.48x the nationwide median. In Concord the program mix is 523 loans in 7(a) against 95 under 504. Franchise brands account for 4.7% of the record.

Concord: businesses and places

In the same files, within the listed classes we track for Concord, full-service restaurant heads the list with 22 loans, trailed by limited-service restaurant with 21 and automotive mechanical repair, 14 loans. A further 506 loans in Concord sit outside every class. Every loan in Concord sits in Merrimack County, NH, at 618 loans, so a feasibility study around Concord a single-county exercise.

Concord: lenders on record

Lenders shown for Concord come from SBA's archived Concord records of the 618 business loans in Concord, by present or former holder; those files show each holder and say nothing of how lenders underwrite. Further, on the 7(a) side around Merrimack County, NH, SBA lists TD Bank, National Association, holding 114 loans worth $10.5 million, followed by Merrimack County Savings Bank ($15.0 million across 112 loans). For the record, among 504 loans in Concord, the list reads Granite State Economic Development Corporation at 41 loans and $16.1 million, followed by Capital Regional Development Council (38 loans, $17.9 million). An applicant in Concord is free to ask the leading Concord holder TD Bank, National Association or other Concord holders near Merrimack County, NH which documents it wants, then shape the Concord study to meet it.

Concord: cancellations and charge-offs

Among Concord approvals from FY2017 through FY2024, not below 10.1% ended in cancellation after approval in Concord, and that is a floor; the full Concord rate may be higher. For disbursed Concord loans approved from FY2017 to FY2021, 3.1% stand charged off to date, a floor. Next, the within-five-years rate for Concord is held back on a small cohort, and it stays blank, never zero. Over the decade, Concord crested in FY2021 at 86 loans and $28.6 million, and bottomed out in FY2020 at 42 loans and $11.7 million.

Concord: what a borrower checks

Around Merrimack County, NH, demand comes first: who shops in Merrimack County, NH, who visits from nearby, measured against Concord overall, and whether full-service restaurant, with 22 loans, leaves any room. Budget: $100,000 is the Concord median and $42,500 to $246,575 where half of loans fall, so a Merrimack County, NH site must price itself against this $100,000 midpoint. Coverage: Concord repayment withstands a sluggish year against the 10.1% rate of cancellation and 3.1% charge-off rate. The appraisal for Concord has to support the figure lent against. Concord adopts the July 2023 delineation; a loan whose county finds no place drops out of each area, Concord too, but the totals count loans beyond the listed classes.

SBA loans in the Concord, NH Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026618
Gross dollars approved$156.4 million
Median loan$100,000
Middle half of loans, from$42,500
Middle half of loans, to$246,575
SBA 7(a) loans523
SBA 504 loans95
Franchise share of loans4.7%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans149 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.48x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)10.1%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)11.7%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)3.1%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort290

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 Concord, NH Micro Area, by fiscal year

020406080100FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 70Loans, FY2018: 75Loans, FY2019: 55Loans, FY2020: 42Loans, FY2021: 86Loans, FY2022: 55Loans, FY2023: 52Loans, FY2024: 60Loans, FY2025: 68Loans, FY2026: 55
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201770$8.9 million
FY201875$10.9 million
FY201955$11.8 million
FY202042$11.7 million
FY202186$28.6 million
FY202255$19.1 million
FY202352$10.7 million
FY202460$12.1 million
FY202568$18.1 million
FY202655$24.4 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes506
Full-service restaurant22
Limited-service restaurant21
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)14
Fitness center10
Child care center8
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)6
Beauty salon6

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
Granite State Economic Development Corporation41$16.1 million
Capital Regional Development Council38$17.9 million
New England Certified Development Corporation9$2.4 million
Bay Colony Development Corporation7$5.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
TD Bank, National Association114$10.5 million
Merrimack County Savings Bank112$15.0 million
Primary Bank29$15.6 million
Camden National Bank28$2.3 million
Eastern Bank27$5.4 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
Merrimack County, NH618

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-18180.

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