Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Dental office in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia against the national picture

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC stands 29 of 562 among metro and micro areas, recording 72 SBA approvals across FY2017 to FY2026 worth $67.3 million. The dental office share of Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's loans is 1.17x the share seen nationally: Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia favors the class heavily. Within Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's own mix the class ranks 8 of 39, a core business. The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia area crosses NC and SC, so loans cross state lines.

In Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, the median loan is $727,950, and the central loans span $496,875 to $1.2 million. Our median is 1.44x the national class median, so Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia borrowers take larger loans. The program split is withheld for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. Thin counts sit under Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia's split; Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia silence is not nil. Franchise share of loans in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia is 0.00%, brand reliance in brief. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia lenders will see it as background.

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia holders and counties for dental office

Under 7(a) in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, SBA records these holders 15 loans worth $15.7 million at Live Oak Banking Company; 9 loans worth $8.7 million at SouthState Bank, National Association; and 5 loans worth $3.6 million at Wells Fargo Bank National Association. No 504 holder is listed for Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia. Each Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia row is an SBA record. The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia lenders named hold or held them. The Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia table describes files, not practices. No Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia row says what a lender requires. Across Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia counties, 34 loans sit in Mecklenburg County, NC, followed by Cabarrus County, NC at 11, York County, SC at 8 and Union County, NC at 5.

Year by year, Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia shows 14 loans and $15.7 million in FY2017, 11 loans and $14.0 million in FY2018, 12 loans and $7.6 million in FY2019, 8 loans and $6.4 million in FY2020, 6 loans and $5.5 million in FY2021 and 6 loans and $3.6 million in FY2024. Years not listed rest on thin counts and are withheld; a gap in the series is not a zero. The FY2017 to FY2024 approvals recorded in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia ended in cancellation after approval, at least 13.8%. Undisbursed loans counted too, the ceiling is 13.8%. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia carries no printed charge-off floor. In Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, a thin cohort means unpublished. Every Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia figure follows the 2023 federal list, and each Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia project is placed by county, and Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia omits unmatched counties.

What a Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia dental office study must prove

Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia dental office sponsors should treat this record as backdrop, then study one site. For Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, we would first examine coverage through a slow first year. Lenders in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia will look for imaging and plumbing costs in the build-out. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia borrowers should expect the study to document what the appraisal assumes for goodwill. In Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, we start by examining start-up versus purchase of a practice. For Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, the study should address whether chair capacity matches patient demand. Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia tests demand, cost, coverage and value. A Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia study guarantees nothing to lenders.

SBA dental office loans in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202672
Gross dollars approved$67.3 million
Median loan$727,950
Middle half of loans, from$496,875
Middle half of loans, to$1.2 million
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans29 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area8 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.17x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.44x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)13.8%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)13.8%
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 dental office loans approved in the Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC Metro Area, by fiscal year

051015FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 14Loans, FY2018: 11Loans, FY2019: 12Loans, FY2020: 8Loans, FY2021: 6Loans, FY2024: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201714$15.7 million
FY201811$14.0 million
FY201912$7.6 million
FY20208$6.4 million
FY20216$5.5 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20246$3.6 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company15$15.7 million
SouthState Bank, National Association9$8.7 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association5$3.6 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
Mecklenburg County, NC34
Cabarrus County, NC11
York County, SC8
Union County, NC5

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.

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-16740-C20.

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