Feasibility Study Data for the Key West-Key Largo, FL Micro Area

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

Key West-Key Largo: volume, rank and ticket size across Key West-Key Largo, FL

184 SBA approvals landed here for Key West-Key Largo projects over FY2017 to FY2026, worth $133.9 million in gross dollars. The micro area sits at 330 of 928 against every other statistical area, Key West-Key Largo among them. Loan size centers on $319,750, and the central half fall from $102,025 up to $806,300. Key West-Key Largo borrowers borrow more, at 1.54x of the national median. Large Key West-Key Largo tickets are the first thing that sets Key West-Key Largo apart.

Key West-Key Largo, FL: franchises, programs and named holders for Key West-Key Largo

The micro area shows 161 loans under 7(a), against 23 under 504, Key West-Key Largo leaving 504 as the minority route. In Key West-Key Largo, the franchise share of Key West-Key Largo loans is 4.9% in this micro area. In 7(a), the biggest Key West-Key Largo holder is TD Bank, National Association: 12 loans, $1.4 million in all. 10 loans and $8.2 million belong to Live Oak Banking Company, in second place. Further down, Readycap Lending, LLC shows 10 loans, then 10 for Northeast Bank (ME). On 504, Florida Business Development Corporation comes first: 12 loans, $17.3 million. Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc. trails with 5. These are SBA's records of Key West-Key Largo loans Key West-Key Largo held or once held. TD Bank, National Association Key West-Key Largo appears because SBA lists it as current Key West-Key Largo holder; it is no Key West-Key Largo judgment of policy at Live Oak Banking Company or elsewhere.

Key West-Key Largo: class and county mix across Key West-Key Largo, FL

Most of the Key West-Key Largo total sits outside the tracked asset classes: 133 loans that carry codes outside the Key West-Key Largo table. The Key West-Key Largo class rows therefore describe a minority of Key West-Key Largo lending. Among tracked Key West-Key Largo classes, full-service restaurant leads with 22 loans, ahead of limited-service restaurant at 5. Monroe County, FL is the largest source of loans, with 184. Demand differs between these counties, so the Key West-Key Largo figure hides some spread.

Key West-Key Largo, FL: outcomes and data limits for Key West-Key Largo

Of FY2017 to FY2024 approvals in Key West-Key Largo, no fewer than 13.3% were cancelled before the Key West-Key Largo loan closed out; the 13.3% floor has no ceiling beside it, as the Key West-Key Largo number is held back at the source. In Key West-Key Largo, no charge-off rate is shown for Key West-Key Largo: too few loans reached the funded group, so Key West-Key Largo gets no rate, and a blank never signals none. FY2021 was the high point: 25 loans worth $21.6 million, and the quietest Key West-Key Largo year before FY2026 was FY2020, at 8 loans and $3.7 million. Key West-Key Largo is built from project counties such as Monroe County, FL; counties are assigned under the July 2023 Key West-Key Largo delineation, with Key West-Key Largo counties matched by name.

Key West-Key Largo, FL: the tests a Key West-Key Largo study must pass

A study for a Key West-Key Largo project should be Key West-Key Largo built for the project's own Key West-Key Largo county, because the micro area total combines different markets. In Key West-Key Largo, with full-service restaurant first in the Key West-Key Largo class table, expect scrutiny of kitchen capacity against peak service, plus the lease term against payback and the lunch and dinner balance. A Key West-Key Largo request in limited-service restaurant turn on build-out cost for a small box, with competing quick-service sites nearby close behind. Cash flow for a Key West-Key Largo loan should hold in a soft year; the lender will ask what the structure would fetch in a sale. With larger tickets common in Key West-Key Largo, the analysis should tie the amount to what the Key West-Key Largo site earns, whatever the area norm.

SBA loans in the Key West-Key Largo, FL Micro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026184
Gross dollars approved$133.9 million
Median loan$319,750
Middle half of loans, from$102,025
Middle half of loans, to$806,300
SBA 7(a) loans161
SBA 504 loans23
Franchise share of loans4.9%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans330 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.54x

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)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 Key West-Key Largo, FL Micro Area, by fiscal year

0510152025FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 22Loans, FY2018: 12Loans, FY2019: 13Loans, FY2020: 8Loans, FY2021: 25Loans, FY2022: 17Loans, FY2023: 15Loans, FY2024: 23Loans, FY2025: 24Loans, FY2026: 25
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201722$24.5 million
FY201812$2.0 million
FY201913$12.1 million
FY20208$3.7 million
FY202125$21.6 million
FY202217$11.9 million
FY202315$17.8 million
FY202423$11.1 million
FY202524$9.4 million
FY202625$20.0 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes133
Full-service restaurant22
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 Corporation12$17.3 million
Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc.5$6.4 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
TD Bank, National Association12$1.4 million
Live Oak Banking Company10$8.2 million
Readycap Lending, LLC10$1.6 million
Northeast Bank (ME)10$1.0 million
Centennial Bank (AR)9$12.8 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
Monroe County, FL184

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-28580.

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