Feasibility Study Data for the Hilo-Kailua, HI Micro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about lending in the Hilo-Kailua, HI Micro Area, every asset class together, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Hilo-Kailua: what the record shows

The Hilo-Kailua micropolitan area logged 232 approved loans and $82.4 million in FY2017 to FY2026. Hilo-Kailua sits at 286 of 928 among areas ranked by loans. Hilo-Kailua loans center on $58,500, the median. For Hilo-Kailua, the middle half lies at $40,000 to $287,750. 0.28x is the Hilo-Kailua median set beside the national one. In Hilo-Kailua, 213 loans were 7(a) and 19 were 504. Loan Analytics withholds the Hilo-Kailua franchise share, since fewer than 30 loans stand behind it. Those 232 Hilo-Kailua loans carry $82.4 million.

Hilo-Kailua: classes and counties

In Hilo-Kailua, automotive mechanical repair leads at 13 loans. Limited-service restaurant follows with 10. Full-service restaurant follows with 8. That is the Hilo-Kailua class lead. Fourth in Hilo-Kailua is medical office, with 7 loans. Outside every class stand 165 Hilo-Kailua loans, so each Hilo-Kailua project is judged on its own facts. Hilo-Kailua consists of Hawaii County, HI, where SBA places 232 loans.

Hilo-Kailua: lenders in the record

Holders in Hilo-Kailua are the current holders of the loans. Hilo-Kailua holders under 7(a) include 12 loans at First Hawaiian Bank ($1.2 million) and 11 loans at Readycap Lending, LLC ($1.3 million). No Hilo-Kailua 504 lender meets the listing minimum. For a Hilo-Kailua borrower, the rows are context only. No Hilo-Kailua row states a holder's terms.

Hilo-Kailua: cancellations and charge-offs

Of Hilo-Kailua approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 13.3% were cancelled, a floor. Treating undisbursed Hilo-Kailua loans as cancelled gives 16.6%, the ceiling. Hilo-Kailua charge-offs: 5.2% among 96 loans disbursed FY2017 to FY2021, a floor. Loan Analytics withholds the Hilo-Kailua five-year rate, since fewer than 30 loans stand behind it. Treat Hilo-Kailua rates as floors. Later events lift them, Hilo-Kailua included. Hilo-Kailua loans are placed by county name. For Hilo-Kailua, the July 2023 list governs. Hilo-Kailua omits loans with no county match. Hilo-Kailua totals count loans outside the tracked classes.

Hilo-Kailua: the feasibility questions

Hilo-Kailua approvals were thinnest in FY2020 (8 loans, $2.8 million) and heaviest in FY2017 (36 loans, $15.0 million). FY2026 closes the Hilo-Kailua series at 22 loans, $7.7 million. In Hilo-Kailua, demand testing starts with Hawaii County, HI and the businesses already serving it. The Hilo-Kailua median is $58,500. Set Hilo-Kailua budgets beside it; nationally it is 0.28x. Hilo-Kailua coverage cannot assume smooth sailing. Hilo-Kailua floors say why. The Hilo-Kailua appraiser reads local comparables. The Hilo-Kailua study reconciles them to cost. Absorption near Hawaii County, HI is tested for Hilo-Kailua on a slow case. Beside Hawaii County, HI findings, the Hilo-Kailua study lists what it could not test.

SBA loans in the Hilo-Kailua, HI Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026232
Gross dollars approved$82.4 million
Median loan$58,500
Middle half of loans, from$40,000
Middle half of loans, to$287,750
SBA 7(a) loans213
SBA 504 loans19
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans286 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.28x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)13.3%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)16.6%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)5.2%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort96

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 Hilo-Kailua, HI Micro Area, by fiscal year

010203040FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 36Loans, FY2018: 24Loans, FY2019: 22Loans, FY2020: 8Loans, FY2021: 22Loans, FY2022: 13Loans, FY2023: 22Loans, FY2024: 34Loans, FY2025: 29Loans, FY2026: 22
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201736$15.0 million
FY201824$4.9 million
FY201922$9.0 million
FY20208$2.8 million
FY202122$6.9 million
FY202213$3.1 million
FY202322$5.1 million
FY202434$17.7 million
FY202529$10.1 million
FY202622$7.7 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes165
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)13
Limited-service restaurant10
Full-service restaurant8
Medical office (physicians)7
Fitness center5

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
Central Pacific Bank90$3.6 million
Bank of Hawaii13$1.4 million
First Hawaiian Bank12$1.2 million
Readycap Lending, LLC11$1.3 million
Celtic Bank Corporation10$9.6 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
Hawaii County, HI232

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-25900.

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