Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

The Houston record for dental offices

SBA's loan files show 189 approvals for dentists' offices in Houston across FY2017 to FY2026, totaling $185.8 million in gross dollars approved. The local median is $502,300, which is 0.99x the class median nationwide, essentially level with it. On the location quotient, 1.10x, dentists' offices claim a larger share of loans around Houston compared with the whole nation. Most borrowers drew amounts between $200,000 and $1.4 million. By rank, Houston is 6 of 562 across metro and micro areas, and inside the area dentists' offices rank 11 of 39 among the lending classes.

Dental office loans by program in Houston

The program split is 184 approvals under 7(a) and 5 under 504; at present, this split tells a borrower which route dentists' offices projects have used in Houston. The 7(a) holders in Houston are led as follows: 24 loans sit with Live Oak Banking Company, 24 with United Community Bank (SC) and 15 with The Huntington National Bank. For Houston, the list of 504 holders is empty for dentists' offices. Houston has no franchise share on this page; Loan Analytics withholds a share built on too few loans. Lender figures for dental practices in Houston are drawn from SBA's holder field: in plain terms, credit goes to the present holder, for the record, which says nothing about lending standards.

Houston by county and fiscal year

117 approvals sit in Harris County, TX, 30 in Fort Bend County, TX and 20 in Montgomery County, TX. By year, FY2017 is the high mark for dental practices in Houston (29 loans, $26.4 million) and FY2022 the low (9 approvals, $11.9 million).

Floors and limits behind the Houston figures

Each dental office loan here is placed by its county of the project, which is matched by name with the 2023 areas; Houston therefore leaves out loans with a county that does not match. Houston has no charge-off rate for dental offices because too few disbursed loans stand behind it, which is not a finding of zero. No fewer than 14.3% of dental office approved loans in Houston were cancelled after approval inside FY2017 to FY2024 approvals, a floor; the matching ceiling is missing because the cohort behind it is too small for Loan Analytics to publish.

The questions a Houston study of dental offices must answer

For a planned dental offices site in Houston, the work tests demand before it tests anything else, as a matter of record, meaning new patient flow together with hygiene schedule fill. The 189 loans show lenders have funded dentists' offices there, for the record, which does not carry over to a supplied address. The appraisal deserves separate work: real estate against practice, and owner transition risk. Coverage must hold through a sluggish opening, because at least 14.3% of Houston dental office approvals were cancelled after approval. The cost side covers buildout against allowance as well as price paid against collections, and the dental office total can be placed against the middle half of Houston loans, $200,000 to $1.4 million.

SBA dental office loans in the Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026189
Gross dollars approved$185.8 million
Median loan$502,300
Middle half of loans, from$200,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.4 million
SBA 7(a) loans184
SBA 504 loans5
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans6 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area11 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.10x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.99x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)14.3%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
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 Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX Metro Area, by fiscal year

0102030FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 29Loans, FY2018: 14Loans, FY2019: 22Loans, FY2020: 13Loans, FY2021: 26Loans, FY2022: 9Loans, FY2023: 13Loans, FY2024: 21Loans, FY2025: 24Loans, FY2026: 18
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201729$26.4 million
FY201814$12.5 million
FY201922$15.9 million
FY202013$13.5 million
FY202126$39.3 million
FY20229$11.9 million
FY202313$17.4 million
FY202421$11.2 million
FY202524$11.6 million
FY202618$26.2 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 Company24$53.8 million
United Community Bank (SC)24$24.5 million
The Huntington National Bank15$7.7 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association12$8.3 million
Zions Bancorporation, National Association10$6.1 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
Harris County, TX117
Fort Bend County, TX30
Montgomery County, TX20
Brazoria County, TX14

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-26420-C20.

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