Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Colorado Springs: dental office lending

In Colorado Springs, across FY2017 to FY2026, SBA's files show 33 dental office loans, totalling $42.1 million of gross dollars approved. Inside Colorado Springs, dental office lending lands 8 of 39 in the ranking of classes. Nationally, Colorado Springs sits at 50 of 562 against every metro and micro area by dental office loan count. Colorado Springs's location quotient is 1.23x, above the national share. A typical Colorado Springs loan, measured by the median, comes to $765,000. The inner half of Colorado Springs loans lies between $150,000 and $2.0 million, and the median comes to 1.51x of the nationwide class median. The middle half of Colorado Springs loans stretches over a very wide band, from $150,000 to $2.0 million, so a small practice purchase and a substantial build-out sit in the same cell. The area ranks 8 of 39 among its asset classes and 50 of 562 nationally, with a location quotient of 1.23x, and FY2023 shows 0 loans against 5 loans worth $8.6 million in FY2024.

Of Colorado Springs's 33 loans, 25 are SBA 7(a), 8 SBA 504. The franchised share of Colorado Springs loans is 0.00%, so no franchised units show up in the Colorado Springs record. The Colorado Springs lender tables show that Live Oak Banking Company, as current holder, carries $21.9 million across 7 SBA 7(a) loans. Colorado Springs's holder rows list today's holders only. Colorado Springs applicants get no signal of bank credit policy here.

Colorado Springs: years, floors and limits

Colorado Springs can show only some years: FY2018 records 5 loans worth $4.9 million; FY2021 records 5 loans totalling $9.0 million; FY2024 records 5 loans worth $8.6 million. In FY2023, Colorado Springs records 0 loans and $0. Not published for Colorado Springs: FY2017, FY2019, FY2020, FY2022, FY2025 and FY2026. Those Colorado Springs years do not mean none. Colorado Springs's cancellation rate: suppressed, under 30 loans in the cohort. The Colorado Springs charge-off rate: held back, fewer than 30 loans. Colorado Springs's minimum is ours, not SBA's. Colorado Springs has a small FY2017 to FY2021 cohort. Colorado Springs takes the July 2023 list. Each loan reaches Colorado Springs through its county. Colorado Springs leaves out unmatched loans.

Colorado Springs: what to test

A Colorado Springs dental study has to say which end of that band the project sits at. A purchase of an existing practice needs the collections history and the retention of patients through the transition; a new suite needs operatory count, equipment cost and a ramp in new patients. Either way the payment on a loan near $765,000 has to be covered by production a hygienist-and-dentist schedule can plausibly deliver, and the appraisal will test whether the practice value is separate from the premises.

SBA dental office loans in the Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202633
Gross dollars approved$42.1 million
Median loan$765,000
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$2.0 million
SBA 7(a) loans25
SBA 504 loans8
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans50 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area8 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.23x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.51x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
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 Colorado Springs, CO Metro Area, by fiscal year

012345FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2021: 5Loans, FY2023: 0Loans, FY2024: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20185$4.9 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20215$9.0 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20230$0
FY20245$8.6 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 Company7$21.9 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.

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-17820-C20.

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