Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area

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

Dental office loans in Jacksonville at a glance

Jacksonville reports FY2017 to FY2026 approvals: 37 dental office loans, $46.4 million gross. Jacksonville, on dental office loans, holds place 41 of 562 among areas. Inside Jacksonville, dental office places 10 of 39. Jacksonville's quotient is 0.90x: dental office below the national share.

Jacksonville loan sizes and mix

Jacksonville shows half its loans at or under $830,000, with the middle half spanning $416,000 up to $2.0 million. Jacksonville stands at 1.64x against the national class median. Jacksonville loans run above the national middle. In Jacksonville, loan size is the metric that stands apart for dental office, and a borrower should read the rest of the page through it. Jacksonville shows no 7(a) count. Jacksonville shows no 504 count either. Jacksonville: too few loans back either count. Jacksonville franchise share of loans is 0.00%. Jacksonville loans run larger. Jacksonville borrowers carry a heavier payment, which Jacksonville studies test.

Jacksonville loan holders and counties

Jacksonville SBA 7(a) holder: 8 loans, $12.8 million, Live Oak Banking Company. Holder in Jacksonville: Wells Fargo Bank National Association, 5 loans, $5.3 million, SBA 7(a). Listed Jacksonville names are current holders, per SBA. Jacksonville rows speak to files, not requirements. Jacksonville borrowers see holders, not lenders. Jacksonville, county by county: 21 in Duval County, FL, and 9 in St. Johns County, FL.

Jacksonville floors, limits and yearly record

Jacksonville years print only in part. FY2018 brings Jacksonville 5 loans, $6.5 million. FY2021 brings Jacksonville 5 loans, $5.3 million. Other Jacksonville years stay blank on thin counts. Jacksonville blanks are silence, never zero, and Jacksonville treats FY2026 as complete. Floors in Jacksonville follow Loan Analytics' own rule. The Jacksonville cohort holds fewer than 30 loans. Jacksonville disbursements cover FY2017 to FY2021. No Jacksonville cancellation floor prints. No Jacksonville charge-off floor prints either. Jacksonville's blank floor is no zero. Jacksonville borrowers learn little from it. Any Jacksonville rate that prints is a floor. Jacksonville follows July 2023 boundaries. Jacksonville places loans by project county. Jacksonville drops loans lacking a placeable county.

Jacksonville: what a study must prove

Jacksonville dental office requests start from the $830,000 median, a first yardstick in Jacksonville. A dental office study in Jacksonville starts with the patient base a practice can reach, measured against operatories, chairs and the hours the doctors will work. In Jacksonville, collections per visit and the mix of insurance and fee-for-service patients decide whether debt service is covered. A Jacksonville lender will want the equipment list, the build-out budget and the associate plan priced before it reads any projection. Daniel Smith, MAI, signs each Jacksonville study. Jacksonville demand and cost come first. In Jacksonville, coverage follows, then the appraisal. No Jacksonville approval is promised by any study.

SBA dental office loans in the Jacksonville, FL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202637
Gross dollars approved$46.4 million
Median loan$830,000
Middle half of loans, from$416,000
Middle half of loans, to$2.0 million
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans41 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area10 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.90x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.64x

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 Jacksonville, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year

012345FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2021: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20185$6.5 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20215$5.3 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
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 Company8$12.8 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association5$5.3 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
Duval County, FL21
St. Johns County, FL9

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-27260-C20.

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