Feasibility Study Data for the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

The scale of lending near Davenport-Moline-Rock Island

For Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, SBA's files carry 389 loans from FY2017 to FY2026, totalling $194.4 million in gross approvals. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island ranks among all metro and micro areas, ranked by approvals, in place 197 of 928. The core of Davenport-Moline-Rock Island lending spans $82,700 to $550,900, centred on a middle figure of $208,000; so the median stands at 1.00x the national median. Around Scott County, IA, SBA 7(a) holds 327 loans, and 62 under SBA 504. Franchises make up 16.7% of the loans.

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island: classes and counties

Next, across the asset classes we list for Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, full-service restaurant heads the list with 28 loans, followed by limited-service restaurant (18) and hotel and motel, 14 loans. Also 262 loans in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island sit outside every class. By county, Scott County, IA leads with 233 loans, then Rock Island County, IL (112), Henry County, IL (37) and Mercer County, IL (7).

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island: who holds loans

Institutions named for Davenport-Moline-Rock Island are lifted from SBA's released Davenport-Moline-Rock Island records of the 389 loans in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, whoever holds or held them. The records show where loans sit, not any lender's requirements. In the same files, in the 7(a) program near Scott County, IA, SBA's records name U.S. Bank, National Association at 40 loans and $5.5 million, followed by IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union, holding 31 loans worth $10.6 million. Also, under 504 in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, the records show Small Business Growth Corporation, with 35 loans for $20.7 million; after it, Iowa Business Growth Company, with 8 loans for $5.2 million. A borrower near Scott County, IA can ask any lender what documentation it wants, then write the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island study to answer those requests.

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island: cancellations and charge-offs

Looking at Davenport-Moline-Rock Island approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, not below 9.6% ended in cancellation after approval in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, a floor; the full Davenport-Moline-Rock Island figure is no lower. Among disbursed Davenport-Moline-Rock Island loans approved from FY2017 to FY2021, 6.0% are charged off so far, a floor. Beyond that, the five-year charge-off figure for Davenport-Moline-Rock Island is withheld for lack of loans, and it stays empty, not zero. For the record, year by year, Davenport-Moline-Rock Island crested in FY2025 at 50 loans and $26.1 million, and was weakest in FY2023 at 22 loans and $12.1 million.

Davenport-Moline-Rock Island: testing a project

For Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, begin with demand: who shops in Scott County, IA, who works in Rock Island County, IL, set against Davenport-Moline-Rock Island as a whole, and what gap the 28 full-service restaurant loans leave. Cost: $208,000 is the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island median and $82,700 to $550,900 the middle band, so a Scott County, IA site should cost itself against that $208,000 marker. Repayment: Davenport-Moline-Rock Island coverage absorbs a slow year against the 9.6% floor for cancellation plus the 6.0% floor for charge-off. The Scott County, IA appraisal must support the value assumed. Davenport-Moline-Rock Island is cut from the July 2023 map; any loan whose home county is not matched is excluded from all areas, as in Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, whereas the totals include loans without a place in the class list.

SBA loans in the Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026389
Gross dollars approved$194.4 million
Median loan$208,000
Middle half of loans, from$82,700
Middle half of loans, to$550,900
SBA 7(a) loans327
SBA 504 loans62
Franchise share of loans16.7%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans197 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.00x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)11.3%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)6.0%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort167

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 Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Metro Area, by fiscal year

01020304050FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 39Loans, FY2018: 29Loans, FY2019: 34Loans, FY2020: 43Loans, FY2021: 40Loans, FY2022: 44Loans, FY2023: 22Loans, FY2024: 40Loans, FY2025: 50Loans, FY2026: 48
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201739$9.4 million
FY201829$18.3 million
FY201934$10.9 million
FY202043$24.5 million
FY202140$23.3 million
FY202244$31.1 million
FY202322$12.1 million
FY202440$14.5 million
FY202550$26.1 million
FY202648$24.2 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes262
Full-service restaurant28
Limited-service restaurant18
Hotel and motel14
Fitness center11
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)7
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)6
Beauty salon6
Gas station and truck stop5
Child care center5

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
Small Business Growth Corporation35$20.7 million
Iowa Business Growth Company8$5.2 million
E.C.I.A. Business Growth, Inc.8$3.6 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
U.S. Bank, National Association40$5.5 million
IH Mississippi Valley Credit Union31$10.6 million
Quad City Bank and Trust Company30$8.6 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association19$1.5 million
TBK Bank, SSB16$8.3 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
Scott County, IA233
Rock Island County, IL112
Henry County, IL37
Mercer County, IL7

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-19340.

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