Feasibility Study Data for the Farmington, NM Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Farmington, NM Metro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Farmington, NM in the national count, 147 loans

SBA files rank Farmington 374 of 928 by loans: 147 approvals in FY2017 to FY2026, $97.6 million gross. Median loan: $150,000 in Farmington, 0.72x the national median. That makes Farmington a smaller-ticket market. In Farmington, the middle half of loans runs from $54,500 to $601,000. Because $54,500 and $601,000 frame the middle half, a Farmington borrower should weigh any Farmington request against $150,000.

Program mix in Farmington: 135 under SBA 7(a) in Farmington and 12 under SBA 504. As SBA flags them, 16.3% of Farmington loans are franchise loans. Asset by asset, Farmington shows hotel and motel with 12, coffee shop and snack bar with 7 and limited-service restaurant with 5. A further 100 Farmington loans sit in no named class in Farmington. The class lines for Farmington therefore never sum to 147. All Farmington loans trace to San Juan County, NM, with 147 approvals, so Farmington behaves as a one-county market in Farmington.

Farmington, NM lender names, as SBA lists them in Farmington

In Farmington, this section reflects SBA's files on loans a holder owns or owned in Farmington, per the note, and say nothing of lender standards. Farmington holders should be read that way. The Farmington SBA 7(a) table opens with Zions Bancorporation, National Association with 24 loans worth $3.6 million; Bank of the Southwest with 21 loans worth $5.7 million; Wells Fargo Bank National in Farmington Association with 16 loans worth $1.8 million. No holder in Farmington, NM reaches the 504 table threshold. The Farmington 504 side carries no lender names in Farmington. The first holder in Farmington sets the pace. Even so, a Farmington borrower may take a study elsewhere in Farmington.

Of Farmington approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, at least 8.2% were cancelled after approval. Another Farmington ceiling, counting undisbursed loans as cancelled remains hidden in Farmington, nothing guessed for Farmington. The Farmington charge-off floor for in Farmington loans disbursed from FY2017 to FY2021 is held back in Farmington, the cohort is small; nothing is guessed, and Farmington is not zero. Farmington's busiest printed year was FY2019, with 21 loans. The Farmington area rests on county of record for the project by the July 2023 delineation, meaning that loan with an unmatched county falls outside every area. The 147 loans in Farmington, NM include those in no named class in Farmington.

Farmington, NM: questions a study has to answer for Farmington

A Farmington study opens with demand. Weigh the people near that location, never Farmington at large, and let a weak first year pass. Next, price the Farmington project. A $150,000 median loan is a rough guide, so every line in Farmington item wants a source, adding a visible contingency for Farmington. Farmington debt service coverage ties it together. State the ratio under a base case next to a case with softer income, so the margin of safety shows in Farmington. An independent Farmington appraisal comes last, so any occupancy claim has to be defensible in Farmington. Inside Farmington, NM, submarkets differ widely. Its 147 loans average across them all, so a Farmington study must name the Farmington submarket it means. At 0.72x of the national median in Farmington, a very large Farmington project may look unusual in Farmington. The study should explain its scale for Farmington against $150,000.

SBA loans in the Farmington, NM Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026147
Gross dollars approved$97.6 million
Median loan$150,000
Middle half of loans, from$54,500
Middle half of loans, to$601,000
SBA 7(a) loans135
SBA 504 loans12
Franchise share of loans16.3%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans374 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.72x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)8.2%
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 loans approved in the Farmington, NM Metro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 8Loans, FY2018: 20Loans, FY2019: 21Loans, FY2020: 9Loans, FY2021: 13Loans, FY2022: 15Loans, FY2023: 13Loans, FY2024: 11Loans, FY2025: 21Loans, FY2026: 16
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20178$1.8 million
FY201820$10.9 million
FY201921$12.3 million
FY20209$8.9 million
FY202113$11.1 million
FY202215$13.7 million
FY202313$9.0 million
FY202411$6.3 million
FY202521$15.5 million
FY202616$8.0 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes100
Hotel and motel12
Coffee shop and snack bar7
Limited-service restaurant5

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Zions Bancorporation, National Association24$3.6 million
Bank of the Southwest21$5.7 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association16$1.8 million
First Southwest Bank12$2.4 million
Live Oak Banking Company7$8.5 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
San Juan County, NM147

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.

All assets: every 7(a) and 504 approval in the metro, including those outside the 39 asset classes.

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 MT-22140.

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