Dental Office Feasibility Study in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area

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

The dental office record in New Orleans

From FY2017 to FY2026, New Orleans had 25 SBA-approved dental office loans worth $26.2 million. New Orleans, on dental office loans, holds place 63 of 562 among areas. Inside New Orleans, dental office places 4 of 39. New Orleans's quotient is 1.64x: dental office above the national share.

New Orleans loan sizes and mix

Loan size in New Orleans centres on $419,800, and its middle half runs between $150,000 and $1.5 million. New Orleans stands at 0.83x against the national class median. New Orleans loans run below the national middle. New Orleans shows no 7(a) count. New Orleans shows no 504 count either. New Orleans: too few loans back either count. New Orleans franchise share of loans is 0.00%. New Orleans loans run smaller, so New Orleans overruns weigh more.

New Orleans: lenders and counties

New Orleans SBA 7(a) holder: 6 loans, $15.1 million, Live Oak Banking Company. Listed New Orleans names are current holders, per SBA. New Orleans rows speak to files, not requirements. New Orleans borrowers see holders, not lenders. The New Orleans rows by county read 14 in Orleans Parish, LA, then 11 in Jefferson Parish, LA.

New Orleans floors, limits and yearly record

Few New Orleans years print. New Orleans shows 0 loans, $0, in FY2018. New Orleans shows 0 loans, $0, in FY2020. New Orleans shows 0 loans, $0, in FY2023. Other New Orleans years stay blank on thin counts. New Orleans blanks are silence, never zero, and New Orleans treats FY2026 as complete. Floors in New Orleans follow Loan Analytics' own rule. The New Orleans cohort holds fewer than 30 loans. New Orleans disbursements cover FY2017 to FY2021. No New Orleans cancellation floor prints. No New Orleans charge-off floor prints either. New Orleans's blank floor is no zero. New Orleans borrowers learn little from it. Any New Orleans rate that prints is a floor. New Orleans follows July 2023 boundaries. New Orleans places loans by project county. New Orleans drops loans lacking a placeable county.

New Orleans: dental office feasibility questions

New Orleans dental office projects open with the $419,800 median, a size check for New Orleans. Hygiene and doctor schedules in New Orleans are tested together, because an empty hygiene column leaves a practice short of recurring revenue. A New Orleans study of a practice purchase compares the price paid with collections the existing patients have actually produced. Licensing and credentialing delays in New Orleans can push back the first collected dollar, and the plan should carry that gap. Daniel Smith, MAI, signs each New Orleans study. New Orleans demand and cost come first. In New Orleans, coverage follows, then the appraisal. No New Orleans approval is promised by any study.

SBA dental office loans in the New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202625
Gross dollars approved$26.2 million
Median loan$419,800
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.5 million
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans63 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area4 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.64x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.83x

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 New Orleans-Metairie, LA Metro Area, by fiscal year

00.20.40.60.81FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 0Loans, FY2020: 0Loans, FY2023: 0
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20180$0
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20200$0
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20230$0
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 Company6$15.1 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
Orleans Parish, LA14
Jefferson Parish, LA11

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-35380-C20.

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