Feasibility Study Data for the Homosassa Springs, FL Metro Area

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

Homosassa Springs in the SBA loan record

Homosassa Springs, FL is a metropolitan area, and its 143 SBA approvals in FY2017 to FY2026 carried $94.1 million in gross dollars. Homosassa Springs is a mid-table area: 384 of 928 by loans. In Homosassa Springs, FL, every asset class is pooled for Homosassa Springs. That view of Homosassa Springs is missing from FL and national tables.

Homosassa Springs: half of loans run $150,000 to $880,000, around a median of $345,000. Homosassa Springs sits well above the national level, at 1.66x the national median, so a Homosassa Springs study should size its request from Homosassa Springs approvals. In Homosassa Springs, FL the 7(a) count is 124 and the 504 count is 19, which puts 7(a) ahead in Homosassa Springs. Homosassa Springs franchised businesses took 14.0% of loans, so a branded concept in Homosassa Springs needs a brand-cost check in Homosassa Springs.

Classes, counties and lenders in Homosassa Springs

Homosassa Springs: full-service restaurant (8 loans); medical office (5 loans); limited-service restaurant (5 loans) head the tracked-class list. The 93 loans in no tracked class keep Homosassa Springs totals from reading as pure property; much Homosassa Springs borrowing funds operating businesses. Homosassa Springs counts by county run 143 loans in Citrus County, FL; a Homosassa Springs study should say which it covers. Homosassa Springs 7(a) volume: TD Bank, National Association ($1.9 million, 12 loans); SouthState Bank, National Association ($4.5 million, 8 loans); Northeast Bank (ME) ($824,500, 6 loans). Homosassa Springs 504 leaders: Florida Business Development Corporation ($2.3 million, 11 loans); Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc. ($8.0 million, 8 loans), in that order. TD Bank, National Association's 12 loans, like every Homosassa Springs lender figure, are an SBA record of Homosassa Springs loans held or once held. No Homosassa Springs lender is judged by these counts.

The Homosassa Springs series opens at 11 loans in FY2017 and closes at 19, higher than the start; its high is 24 loans ($13.2 million) in FY2021, its low 5 in FY2018. Homosassa Springs cancellation after approval runs at 9.5% as a floor for Homosassa Springs approvals, FY2017 to FY2024, and 9.5% as a ceiling that counts Homosassa Springs loans still undisbursed as cancelled. Homosassa Springs: no charge-off floor is printed. Its Homosassa Springs cohort is too thin; Homosassa Springs withholds it; withheld is not zero. Homosassa Springs faces a geography limit: Homosassa Springs, FL uses the July 2023 definition; 143 loans are matched by county, and unplaceable Homosassa Springs loans are omitted, so Homosassa Springs counts and rates are floors.

Homosassa Springs: what a study has to test

Any Homosassa Springs study defines its Homosassa Springs trade area first, since lending in Citrus County, FL differs from lending across Homosassa Springs, FL. If a Homosassa Springs concept resembles full-service restaurant, Homosassa Springs offers size and lender precedent; other Homosassa Springs concepts must rest on their own Homosassa Springs evidence. Homosassa Springs quotes should price construction and equipment. Then Homosassa Springs debt service coverage is tested at $345,000, and again at $880,000. Homosassa Springs is metropolitan, so a Homosassa Springs appraisal should name its submarket and test Homosassa Springs comparables inside it. Nothing printed for Homosassa Springs predicts approval; each Homosassa Springs lender still reviews a study.

SBA loans in the Homosassa Springs, FL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026143
Gross dollars approved$94.1 million
Median loan$345,000
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$880,000
SBA 7(a) loans124
SBA 504 loans19
Franchise share of loans14.0%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans384 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.66x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.5%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)9.5%
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 Homosassa Springs, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 11Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2019: 10Loans, FY2020: 11Loans, FY2021: 24Loans, FY2022: 20Loans, FY2023: 16Loans, FY2024: 8Loans, FY2025: 19Loans, FY2026: 19
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201711$3.9 million
FY20185$999,000
FY201910$4.5 million
FY202011$11.0 million
FY202124$13.2 million
FY202220$14.4 million
FY202316$10.8 million
FY20248$8.6 million
FY202519$12.7 million
FY202619$13.9 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes93
Full-service restaurant8
Medical office (physicians)5
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 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Florida Business Development Corporation11$2.3 million
Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc.8$8.0 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
TD Bank, National Association12$1.9 million
SouthState Bank, National Association8$4.5 million
Northeast Bank (ME)6$824,500
Regions Bank5$3.3 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
Citrus County, FL143

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-26140.

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