Dental Office Feasibility Study in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about dental office lending in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Portland dental: a dental record that crosses the Columbia River

Inside Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro the dental office class ranks 11 of 39; against all areas, Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro ranks 34 of 562 for dental office. A location quotient of 0.72x says dental offices carry less weight in local SBA lending than in the in Portland country as a whole. The area spans Oregon and Washington; SBA recorded 58 loans for $64.2 million. Dental office borrowers in Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro see a $657,500 median, 1.30x of the national dental office figure; ordinary loans run $212,500 to $1.5 million.

By count SBA 7(a) carries 36 dental office loans in Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro; SBA 504 carries 22. That 504 weight, with a franchise share of 0.00%, describes practice owners buying buildings. Washington County, Oregon has 18 loans, Multnomah County 14, Clark County, Washington 11, Clackamas County 10 and Yamhill County 5. Evergreen Business Capital holds 13 of the 504 loans for $10.8 million. Live Oak Banking Company holds 11 7(a) loans for $24.5 million, a very large amount per loan, and Columbia Bank (OR) holds 6 for $325,000. The Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro lender table as the current holder SBA lists, so Live Oak Banking Company’s policy goes unjudged. Loans, not lending policy.

For dental office loans around Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro, years FY2017 through FY2024 ended cancelled, 11.1% at least, a minimum, not an estimate. In the Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro dental office cell, no figure shows for the undisbursed-loan ceiling plus the charged-off rate as the cohort is too small; withheld never means zero. In Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro, printed years show 10 loans and $14.4 million in FY2021, 11 and $8.6 million in FY2022, 6 and $6.4 million in FY2024, 6 and $6.4 million in FY2025, and 7 and $13.7 million in FY2026.

Portland dental: what a dental study here tests

A dental study should test operatory count against patient base, whether a practice purchase includes goodwill, the cost of imaging and chair equipment, and debt service when income depends on one or two dentists. In Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro, a dental office loan counts on its project county within July 2023 area definitions. An unmatched loan goes uncounted. Loan Analytics gives this to inform any dental office engagement around Portland, Vancouver and Hillsboro, as Daniel Smith, MAI, countersigns it; funding is not guaranteed.

SBA dental office loans in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202658
Gross dollars approved$64.2 million
Median loan$657,500
Middle half of loans, from$212,500
Middle half of loans, to$1.5 million
SBA 7(a) loans36
SBA 504 loans22
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for dental office loans34 of 562
Rank of dental office among the classes in this area11 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.72x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.30x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)11.1%
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 Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area, by fiscal year

02.557.51012.5FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2021: 10Loans, FY2022: 11Loans, FY2024: 6Loans, FY2025: 6Loans, FY2026: 7
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY202110$14.4 million
FY202211$8.6 million
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20246$6.4 million
FY20256$6.4 million
FY20267$13.7 million

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Evergreen Business Capital13$10.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company11$24.5 million
Columbia Bank (OR)6$325,000

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
Washington County, OR18
Multnomah County, OR14
Clark County, WA11
Clackamas County, OR10
Yamhill County, OR5

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-38900-C20.

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