Feasibility Study Data for the Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Metro Area

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

Oshkosh in the SBA loan record

Oshkosh-Neenah, WI logged 344 SBA approvals in FY2017 to FY2026, worth $169.0 million in gross dollars. Oshkosh ranks 216 of 928 by loan count. Oshkosh is read whole in Oshkosh-Neenah, WI, every class counted. A slice of WI is not how Oshkosh is treated.

A Oshkosh median loan of $214,500 sits inside a middle half of $100,000 to $531,750. Outside data makes Oshkosh requests look familiar; at 1.03x, Oshkosh is close to the national level. Oshkosh counts 271 loans under 7(a) and 73 under 504, so 7(a) carries the Oshkosh mix. Oshkosh franchise loans reach 9.9%, so brand standards often shape an Oshkosh request there.

Classes, counties and lenders in Oshkosh

Oshkosh tracked classes among 344 loans, by loan count: beverage manufacturing: 11; full-service restaurant: 10; limited-service restaurant: 10; automotive mechanical repair: 8. Another 265 Oshkosh loans sit in no tracked class, so Oshkosh totals describe operating businesses, not only property. Winnebago County, WI (344 loans) leads by county; an Oshkosh study names which county it covers. Oshkosh 7(a) volume: Nicolet National Bank ($16.7 million, 41 loans); Bank First, N.A. ($9.7 million, 20 loans); The Huntington National Bank ($4.3 million, 18 loans). Nicolet National Bank's 41 loans, like every Oshkosh lender figure, are an SBA record of Oshkosh loans held or once held. No Oshkosh lender is judged by these counts.

Oshkosh goes from 27 loans in FY2017 to 19 in FY2026, ending lower: the peak was 51 in FY2021, and the trough 19 in FY2026. Oshkosh cancellations stand at 9.7%, a floor, for Oshkosh approvals in FY2017 to FY2024; Oshkosh's ceiling is withheld, never zero in Oshkosh. The Oshkosh charge-off floor reaches 2.9% across a cohort of 175 loans disbursed between FY2017 and FY2021. The Oshkosh five-year loss figure is withheld; Oshkosh cannot read it as zero. Oshkosh faces a geography limit: Oshkosh-Neenah, WI uses the July 2023 definition; 344 loans are matched by county, and unplaceable Oshkosh loans are omitted, so Oshkosh counts and rates are floors.

Oshkosh: testing a project

For Oshkosh, a study tests Oshkosh demand within a defined trade area, since Winnebago County, WI dominates Oshkosh loan counts. If an Oshkosh concept resembles beverage manufacturing, Oshkosh offers size and lender precedent; other Oshkosh concepts must rest on their own Oshkosh evidence. Oshkosh quotes should price construction and equipment. Then Oshkosh debt service coverage is tested at $214,500, and again at $531,750. Oshkosh is metropolitan, so submarkets differ, and an Oshkosh appraisal should use the site's own Oshkosh submarket comparables. The Oshkosh record frames questions, and each lender in Oshkosh decides on its own.

SBA loans in the Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026344
Gross dollars approved$169.0 million
Median loan$214,500
Middle half of loans, from$100,000
Middle half of loans, to$531,750
SBA 7(a) loans271
SBA 504 loans73
Franchise share of loans9.9%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans216 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.03x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.7%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)withheld
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)2.9%
Charged off within five years of approvalwithheld
Loans in that cohort175

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 Oshkosh-Neenah, WI Metro Area, by fiscal year

0204060FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 27Loans, FY2018: 35Loans, FY2019: 45Loans, FY2020: 39Loans, FY2021: 51Loans, FY2022: 42Loans, FY2023: 30Loans, FY2024: 21Loans, FY2025: 35Loans, FY2026: 19
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201727$9.3 million
FY201835$8.5 million
FY201945$26.9 million
FY202039$18.6 million
FY202151$27.4 million
FY202242$24.1 million
FY202330$14.0 million
FY202421$12.3 million
FY202535$19.4 million
FY202619$8.5 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes265
Beverage manufacturing (breweries, wineries, distilleries)11
Full-service restaurant10
Limited-service restaurant10
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)8
Fitness center7
Hotel and motel6
Beauty salon6

Classes with 5 or more loans; smaller ones are withheld, and more where a small one could be derived.

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Nicolet National Bank41$16.7 million
Bank First, N.A.20$9.7 million
The Huntington National Bank18$4.3 million
U.S. Bank, National Association16$2.3 million
Verve, a Credit Union15$3.2 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
Winnebago County, WI344

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-36780.

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