Hotel Feasibility Study in the Tulsa, OK Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about hotel and motel lending in the Tulsa, OK Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Hotel or motel loans in Tulsa

Tulsa lodging mirrors the national share of lending, at 1.00x on the location quotient, but its loans are larger, with a median 1.29x the national one. From FY2017 through FY2026, SBA approved 31 loans for hotels and motels in Tulsa, OK, $86.7 million together. Tulsa, OK places 63 of 807 nationally for this class; the class is 7 of 39 locally. At 1.00x on the location quotient, hotels and motels take about the same share of Tulsa loans as of loans across the country. Tulsa loan size runs high: $2.8 million at the median, 1.29x the national median for hotels and motels.

Loans in the middle half sit between $1.4 million and $4.0 million. A plan priced below $1.4 million would be among the smaller Tulsa loans on record. Loan Analytics withholds program counts for Tulsa, and none is shown as zero. Franchise share stands at 74.2% for hotels and motels. The $2.8 million median is the first yardstick. $1.4 million to $4.0 million is the usual spread. A Tulsa plan should say if it is branded. Program choice rests on the project here. SBA codes all hotels and motels as one group, so the lodging format behind any single loan stays invisible.

Holders, places and years in Tulsa

Place by place, Tulsa County, OK holds 24. Year by year, FY2022 shows 5 loans and $15.7 million and FY2023 shows 6 loans and $15.5 million. The remaining years are withheld. Their loan counts are thin. They are undefined, never zero. A few printed years show no direction. The record helps frame a Tulsa request. Local evidence completes the picture.

Questions a hotel or motel study in Tulsa must answer

Charge-off and cancellation rates: none for Tulsa. The cohort has too few loans. Withheld does not mean zero. Areas are federal groupings, 2023 edition. The project county places the loan. Names are compared county to county. Unplaceable loans are left out everywhere. Tulsa shows $86.7 million across 31 loans. History is not a substitute for analysis. Before a lender sees a hotel or motel project in Tulsa, the study should test net income after franchise fees, occupancy once nearby rooms are counted, staffing cost per occupied room, reserve funding for replacements, the competing supply near the site, renovation cost if converting a property against the $2.8 million median, room demand at the needed rate, and the value opinion a lender relies on. None of this forecasts a Tulsa request. The study has to make its case.

SBA hotel and motel loans in the Tulsa, OK Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202631
Gross dollars approved$86.7 million
Median loan$2.8 million
Middle half of loans, from$1.4 million
Middle half of loans, to$4.0 million
SBA 7(a) loanswithheld
SBA 504 loanswithheld
Franchise share of loans74.2%
Rank among metro and micro areas for hotel and motel loans63 of 807
Rank of hotel and motel among the classes in this area7 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)1.00x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.29x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
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 hotel and motel loans approved in the Tulsa, OK Metro Area, by fiscal year

0246FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2022: 5Loans, FY2023: 6
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY2018withheldwithheld
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY20225$15.7 million
FY20236$15.5 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
Tulsa County, OK24

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.

One code for hotels and motels; limited service and full service cannot be separated.

Shared code: Hotels and motels share 721110.

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-46140-C07.

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