Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

One county, a mid-table class

In Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, dental office loans land at 5 of 39 within Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura's own classes, and the area is 41 of 562 on the national list for them. All 37 approved loans sit in Ventura County, together worth $30.7 million, and they cover FY2017 through FY2026. Dental office loans take a bigger slice of SBA lending in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura than nationally (location quotient 1.48x). No metric here is flagged as distinctive, so the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura cell reads as ordinary in size and unremarkable in mix, with its one clear feature in the paragraph on cancellations under.

The median is $503,300, level with the national median across dental offices at 0.99x. The interquartile band stretches from $350,000 to $1.1 million. Of the 37, 31 are 7(a) and 6 are 504. No franchise share is printed, and the page offers no reason. A practice buyer or buildout sponsor can use the band to see where a proposal would sit relative to what lenders have actually carried in the county. Everything above describes SBA loans in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura; other money for dental office projects in Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura lies outside these figures.

Cancellations are the signal

Within the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura loans approved from FY2017 to FY2024, no fewer than 15.6% were cancelled after approval; if loans still awaiting disbursement are also treated as cancelled, the figure holds at 15.6%. Neither is final, since open loans can still change. For a lender the lesson is that a noticeable share of approved dental loans in this metro never reached funding, which makes final terms and timeline worth testing. The charge-off rate is absent: its FY2017 to FY2021 cohort is under Loan Analytics' own threshold of 30 loans, so it is withheld and is never to be read as zero.

Three years are shown: FY2017: 6 loans and $3.4 million, FY2019 with 5 loans and $3.6 million, and FY2021 with 9 loans and $9.6 million, the largest. Wells Fargo Bank National Association holds 5 of the 7(a) loans, $3.6 million in SBA's records. The record is of holding, not of underwriting rules.

Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura: questions a study must answer

A dental project in Ventura County requires evidence of where its patients live, how many operatories the space holds, and what buildout and equipment cost relative to a loan near $503,300. Cover for the payment should be shown as a new or relocated practice ramps up, with a slower case beside it. Given the cancellation floor above, a lender will want proof that the plan still works at final pricing. The federal delineation draws Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura; and loans from counties Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura cannot place are absent from the totals.

SBA dental office loans in the Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202637
Gross dollars approved$30.7 million
Median loan$503,300
Middle half of loans, from$350,000
Middle half of loans, to$1.1 million
SBA 7(a) loans31
SBA 504 loans6
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans41 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area5 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.48x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.99x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)15.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)15.6%
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 Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246810FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 6Loans, FY2019: 5Loans, FY2021: 9
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20176$3.4 million
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY20195$3.6 million
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20219$9.6 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
Wells Fargo Bank National Association5$3.6 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
Ventura County, CA37

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-37100-C20.

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