Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Dental office in Cincinnati against the national picture

With 76 SBA approvals worth $71.4 million between FY2017 and FY2026, Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN stands 27 of 562 among metro and micro areas. Share of loans for dental office in Cincinnati comes to 1.00x the share seen nationally: Cincinnati tracks the national weighting. Inside Cincinnati, the class ranks 7 of 39, a big mix piece. This Cincinnati area crosses IN, KY and OH, one count, several states.

Cincinnati loans center on $573,400, the median, and the middle half ranges $140,000 to $1.2 million. The local median is 1.13x the class median nationally, so Cincinnati borrowers draw bigger loans. 68 loans run through SBA 7(a) and 8 run through SBA 504. Cincinnati's franchise share of loans stands at 0.00%, brand reliance in brief. For Cincinnati borrowers, that is context only.

Cincinnati: who holds the loans, and where

On the 7(a) side in Cincinnati, SBA records these holders United Midwest Savings Bank National Association (21 loans, $35.5 million); The Huntington National Bank (12 loans, $5.7 million); U.S. Bank, National Association (10 loans, $4.7 million); Live Oak Banking Company (8 loans, $10.9 million); and First Financial Bank (OH) (8 loans, $3.1 million). On the 504 side of Cincinnati, Alloy Development Co., Inc. (8 loans, $4.5 million). Each Cincinnati row is an SBA record. These Cincinnati loans sit with the lenders named. Cincinnati rows speak to files, not policy. No Cincinnati row says what a lender requires. Across Cincinnati counties, 29 loans sit in Hamilton County, OH, followed by Butler County, OH with 16, Warren County, OH with 9, Boone County, KY with 7 and Kenton County, KY with 7.

Cincinnati's published years show 8 loans and $5.8 million in FY2017, 12 loans and $10.2 million in FY2018, 14 loans and $13.2 million in FY2019, 6 loans and $5.0 million in FY2020, 14 loans and $9.7 million in FY2021 and 8 loans and $9.3 million in FY2022. No count is printed for the remaining years of the span in Cincinnati, as counts are thin, so those blank years may hold loans. FY2017 to FY2024 approvals in Cincinnati were cancelled after approval at a floor of 17.9%, a floor. Undisbursed loans counted too, the ceiling is 17.9%. For Cincinnati, no charge-off floor is printed. Thin Cincinnati cohorts mean unpublished, not none. The Cincinnati totals follow federal lines from July 2023, where Cincinnati loans are placed by county, and Cincinnati excludes any county it cannot match.

Cincinnati: testing a dental office project

Cincinnati dental office projects start from this record and end at one site. Each Cincinnati study must establish collections timing against billings. For Cincinnati, we would first examine start-up versus purchase of a practice. In Cincinnati, a study has to test hygienist and associate payroll, line by line. In Cincinnati, we start by examining whether chair capacity matches patient demand. Cincinnati reviewers will check coverage through a slow first year. Cincinnati work runs demand, cost, coverage, value. Cincinnati lenders get evidence, not a promise.

SBA dental office loans in the Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202676
Gross dollars approved$71.4 million
Median loan$573,400
Middle half of loans, from$140,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.2 million
SBA 7(a) loans68
SBA 504 loans8
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans27 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area7 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.00x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.13x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)17.9%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)17.9%
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 Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Metro Area, by fiscal year

051015FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 8Loans, FY2018: 12Loans, FY2019: 14Loans, FY2020: 6Loans, FY2021: 14Loans, FY2022: 8
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20178$5.8 million
FY201812$10.2 million
FY201914$13.2 million
FY20206$5.0 million
FY202114$9.7 million
FY20228$9.3 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Alloy Development Co., Inc.8$4.5 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
United Midwest Savings Bank National Association21$35.5 million
The Huntington National Bank12$5.7 million
U.S. Bank, National Association10$4.7 million
Live Oak Banking Company8$10.9 million
First Financial Bank (OH)8$3.1 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
Hamilton County, OH29
Butler County, OH16
Warren County, OH9
Boone County, KY7
Kenton County, KY7

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-17140-C20.

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