Medical Office Feasibility Study in the El Paso, TX Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about medical office (physicians) lending in the El Paso, TX Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

A high quotient for physician offices

On the ladder of areas El Paso stands at 40 of 488; on its own ladder of classes, medical office (physicians) stands at 2 of 39. Every one of the 35 approvals, worth $22.6 million, is in El Paso County, dated FY2017 to FY2026. Set beside the national mix, El Paso yields 3.29x: medical office (physicians) loans take a larger share there. The page does not call the 3.29x distinctive, but it is the largest ratio shown.

The median is $150,000, merely 0.44x the national figure for physician offices, so local borrowers took far smaller loans than the national pattern, and most typical loans sit between $100,000 and $531,000. The 7(a) program accounts for 30 loans and 504 for 5. At 0.00% the franchise share is nil, which leaves every El Paso practice unbranded. El Paso supplies merely loans that SBA recorded for medical office (physicians), so counts for El Paso say nothing about plans financed in El Paso another way.

Years and floors

Three years are shown: FY2018 at 5 loans and $1.3 million, FY2019 brings no loans and $0, and FY2023: 5 loans and $4.2 million. Loan Analytics holds back El Paso's both outcome rates because the El Paso FY2017 to FY2021 pool includes beneath 30 loans, and in El Paso our own rule applies. A withheld rate in El Paso does not mean none. No lender is listed, so the page makes no statement about who holds these loans.

Any plan for a doctor's practice in El Paso should show how the practice fills its exam rooms, how tenancy or purchase cost compares with practice revenue, and how long a new physician needs to reach a full schedule. Cover for the loan payment belongs on a proposal near $150,000, with a case where referrals build slowly. A proposal well above the El Paso band's top requires a stated reason, and the space should be valued on the income it can carry. The federal county grouping defines El Paso; so loans from counties El Paso cannot place stay absent from its totals.

Reading the El Paso figures

A lender will find a class with a very high local quotient and very small loans, a combination of high weight and small tickets. A borrower should read the middle band as the El Paso record of what closed, and should be prepared to explain any request above its top edge. Since every loan is in El Paso County, this El Paso page offers no cross-county comparison within El Paso area.

SBA medical office (physicians) loans in the El Paso, TX Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202635
Gross dollars approved$22.6 million
Median loan$150,000
Middle half of loans, from$100,000
Middle half of loans, to$531,000
SBA 7(a) loans30
SBA 504 loans5
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for medical office (physicians) loans40 of 488
Rank of medical office (physicians) among the classes in this area2 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)3.29x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.44x

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)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort

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 medical office (physicians) loans approved in the El Paso, TX Metro Area, by fiscal year

012345FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2019: 0Loans, FY2023: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20185$1.3 million
FY20190$0
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY20235$4.2 million
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
El Paso County, TX35

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.

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-21340-C32.

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