Feasibility Study Data for the Kenosha, WI Metro Area

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

Kenosha, WI in the national count, 345 loans

SBA files rank Kenosha 215 of 928 by loans: 345 approvals in FY2017 to FY2026, $204.0 million gross. Median loan: $212,400 in Kenosha, 1.02x the national median. That makes Kenosha a larger-ticket market. In Kenosha, the middle half of in Kenosha loans runs from $100,000 to $682,000. Because $100,000 and $682,000 frame the middle half, a Kenosha borrower should weigh any Kenosha request against $212,400.

Program mix in Kenosha: 290 under SBA 7(a) and 55 under SBA 504. As SBA flags them, 16.8% of Kenosha loans are franchise loans. Asset by asset, Kenosha shows full-service restaurant with 21, gas station and truck stop with 13 and hotel and motel with 9. A further 241 Kenosha loans sit in no named class in Kenosha. The class lines for Kenosha therefore never sum to 345. All Kenosha loans trace to Kenosha County, WI, with 345 approvals, so Kenosha behaves as a one-county market in Kenosha.

Kenosha, WI lender names, as SBA lists them in Kenosha

In Kenosha, lender lines come from what SBA reports on loans a lender holds or once held in Kenosha, per holder field in Kenosha, so they record a portfolio only. Kenosha holders should be read that way. The Kenosha SBA 7(a) table opens with U.S. Bank, National Association with 47 loans worth $16.5 million; Community State Bank (WI) with 41 loans worth $10.6 million; First American Bank (IL) with 24 loans worth $7.2 million. Under SBA 504, Kenosha lists Racine County Economic Development Corporation with 27 loans worth $17.6 million; WBD, Inc. with 20 loans worth $20.9 million first. In Kenosha, concentration among top holders says little. A Kenosha study should stand on evidence alone in Kenosha.

Of Kenosha approvals from FY2017 to FY2024 in Kenosha, at least 12.4% were cancelled after approval. One more Kenosha figure, a ceiling treating undisbursed approvals as cancelled is withheld, Kenosha having too few. Kenosha charge-offs to date, for the cohort funded in Kenosha in FY2017 to FY2021 is suppressed for lack of enough loans; this page prints nothing for Kenosha, not zero. Kenosha's busiest printed year was FY2025, with 46 loans. Boundaries for Kenosha come from project county, found by name lookup under the July 2023 delineation, which means any loan whose county is unplaceable falls outside every area. The 345 loans in Kenosha, WI include 241 that sit in no named class.

Kenosha, WI: questions a study has to answer for Kenosha

The Kenosha test begins with demand. Map who lives and works near one site in Kenosha, not the metropolitan area average, and stress the first year in Kenosha. After demand, Kenosha cost. Loans near $212,400 are common, still quotes and comps in Kenosha must drive it in Kenosha, with Kenosha fees and reserves itemised in Kenosha. Coverage of debt service is the Kenosha test. Compute the ratio at the planned loan as well as in Kenosha under a downside case, saying how far Kenosha revenue can fall. The Kenosha appraisal is the final gate: so the cost-to-value in Kenosha story has to be documented for Kenosha. Inside Kenosha, WI, submarkets differ widely. Its 345 loans average across them all, so a Kenosha study must name the Kenosha submarket it means. With the median at 1.02x the national level, a smaller Kenosha project may look unusual in Kenosha. The study should explain its sizing for Kenosha against $212,400.

SBA loans in the Kenosha, WI Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026345
Gross dollars approved$204.0 million
Median loan$212,400
Middle half of loans, from$100,000
Middle half of loans, to$682,000
SBA 7(a) loans290
SBA 504 loans55
Franchise share of loans16.8%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans215 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.02x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)12.4%
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 Kenosha, WI Metro Area, by fiscal year

01020304050FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 42Loans, FY2018: 41Loans, FY2019: 26Loans, FY2020: 34Loans, FY2021: 37Loans, FY2022: 31Loans, FY2023: 32Loans, FY2024: 32Loans, FY2025: 46Loans, FY2026: 24
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201742$29.4 million
FY201841$11.1 million
FY201926$14.3 million
FY202034$23.2 million
FY202137$22.7 million
FY202231$28.3 million
FY202332$20.2 million
FY202432$19.7 million
FY202546$23.8 million
FY202624$11.1 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes241
Full-service restaurant21
Gas station and truck stop13
Hotel and motel9
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)9
Limited-service restaurant8
Beauty salon7
Fitness center5
Child care 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 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Racine County Economic Development Corporation27$17.6 million
WBD, Inc.20$20.9 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
U.S. Bank, National Association47$16.5 million
Community State Bank (WI)41$10.6 million
First American Bank (IL)24$7.2 million
The Huntington National Bank20$8.9 million
Wisconsin Women's Business Initiative Corporation18$2.1 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
Kenosha County, WI345

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-28450.

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