Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Dallas: $240.0 million in dental office loans

SBA's loan files show 280 approved dental office loans in Dallas from FY2017 through FY2026, $240.0 million in gross dollars. Sizes center near $572,500, and half of them sit between $200,000 and $1.1 million. The ratio to the national median for dental office is 1.13x, so Dallas loans run above the national middle.

Where Dallas stands, 9 of 39 in class

7(a) outnumbers the other program in Dallas, 273 7(a) loans to 7 504 loans. Loan Analytics withholds the franchise share for dental office in Dallas, on too few loans. Nationally Dallas stands 3 of 562 for dental office loans, while in the area the class is 9 of 39 among classes. 1.32x is the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington quotient: the class is denser in Dallas than nationwide. Dallas County, TX tops the county list at 91 loans; Collin County, TX follows with 63, then Tarrant County, TX with 52.

Who holds the 280 Dallas loans

Annual loans peak in FY2017 at 43 ($29.0 million) and bottom out in FY2020 at 15 ($22.2 million). Dallas 7(a) holdings are led by 36 loans and $50.7 million at Live Oak Banking Company; 20 loans and $13.2 million at Wells Fargo Bank National Association; 19 loans and $18.0 million at The Huntington National Bank. Live Oak Banking Company's 36 loans and $50.7 million reflect SBA's holder field alone and say nothing about lending standards. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington cancellation floor is 12.9%, while Loan Analytics withholds its ceiling, and that is not zero. Charge-offs reach at least 3.8% of 130 loans in the FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed cohort, a floor that rises as loans age; Loan Analytics withholds the five-year rate.

The Dallas study: demand, cost, coverage, appraisal at $1.1 million

A Dallas study starts with patient panel growth, the mix of procedures offered and nearby practices; the 280-loan record cannot sit in for them. The Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington build or purchase has to absorb operatory buildout, a ramp to full chair use and clinical equipment, and Dallas, TX figures should replace national rules of thumb. Coverage in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington is tested at $572,500, $200,000 and $1.1 million alike, since the file spans that range. The appraiser tests Dallas collateral too, namely practice goodwill, the real estate and operatory buildout; a Dallas, TX study anticipates each. The 280 loans give the study a frame, yet any single Dallas approval depends on its own project and lender.

How to read Dallas's $240.0 million

The project county puts each of Dallas, TX's 280 loans in the area. The July 2023 delineation puts Dallas County, TX inside Dallas, TX, with each county matched by name. The cancellation floor covers FY2017 to FY2024 approvals for Dallas; charge-offs cover FY2017 to FY2021 disbursements.

SBA dental office loans in the Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026280
Gross dollars approved$240.0 million
Median loan$572,500
Middle half of loans, from$200,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.1 million
SBA 7(a) loans273
SBA 504 loans7
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans3 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area9 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.32x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.13x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)12.9%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)3.8%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort130

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 Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX Metro Area, by fiscal year

01020304050FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 43Loans, FY2018: 32Loans, FY2019: 20Loans, FY2020: 15Loans, FY2021: 43Loans, FY2022: 17Loans, FY2023: 21Loans, FY2024: 26Loans, FY2025: 23Loans, FY2026: 40
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201743$29.0 million
FY201832$23.2 million
FY201920$11.4 million
FY202015$22.2 million
FY202143$49.3 million
FY202217$14.6 million
FY202321$14.9 million
FY202426$24.7 million
FY202523$19.8 million
FY202640$31.0 million

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 Company36$50.7 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association20$13.2 million
The Huntington National Bank19$18.0 million
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association13$7.2 million
United Midwest Savings Bank National Association12$13.9 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.

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Dallas County, TX91
Collin County, TX63
Tarrant County, TX52
Denton County, TX48
Rockwall County, TX9
Ellis County, TX7

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-19100-C20.

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