Feasibility Study Data for the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL Metro Area

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

The scale of lending in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville

1,155 approvals across Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL from FY2017 through FY2026 add up to $658.2 million gross. Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville ranks 84 of 928 against all CBSAs on approvals. In addition, $250,000 marks the median; the central half runs from $60,000 to $624,500. In addition, the median in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville stands at 1.20x of the median nationwide, pointing to tickets that sit over the figure for the nation. Next, Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville looks only at loans from its own counties, where a state page gives a whole state's average: 1,155 approvals altogether.

Lenders and programs in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville

1,026 loans under 7(a) stand against 129 SBA 504 loans. 14.4% of the loans belong to franchised units here. Beyond that, for 7(a), the top banks and lenders by count rank as TD Bank, National Association at 220 loans and $21.2 million, The Huntington National Bank with 54 loans for $24.3 million, plus Wells Fargo Bank National Association booking 53 loans for $16.0 million. Also, across 504 approvals, the largest certified development companies by loans appear as Florida First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc. with 75 loans and $78.9 million followed by Florida Business Development Corporation at 47 loans totalling $41.3 million. In turn, all the names are copied from SBA records for 1,155 approvals; they list loans held, nothing more, not what lenders want in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville.

The classes behind the loans in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville

68 for full-service restaurant, 46 in child care center, limited-service restaurant with 38, then 21 in fitness center top the class table in the file. Then, 810 approvals fall outside all named classes, so its $658.2 million total reaches beyond the class list. 5 loans in grocery store across Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville form too thin a base for a pattern. In turn, Brevard County accounts for all of 1,155 approvals, so the area and the county form one market. In addition, year by year, FY2017 begins at 127 loans and $61.1 million; FY2025 sets the high mark at 174 loans and $98.5 million, and FY2026 ends the sequence at 131 loans and $83.0 million.

What the floors allow in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville

9.6% of FY2017 to FY2024 loans in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville have been cancelled before disbursement, a floor; 11.1% is the ceiling with undisbursed loans included. Worth noting: 5.7% of FY2017 through FY2021 disbursed loans in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville were charged off, which is a floor; 3.0% went to charge-off within five years of approval, out of 473 loans. Then, read each percentage above like a floor, because the most recent approvals have had too little time to fall through or default, across 1,155 loans. Separately, an area in this file is the core-based area containing any loan's site county, per the July 2023 boundaries as adopted; counties are matched name to name, and so an approval whose home county cannot be assigned is omitted from every area without exception. In practice, classed or unclassed, every loan under either program in these counties is tallied in its $658.2 million total.

Testing a project in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville

Across Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, a feasibility study for a project starts from the subject property, never the 1,155-loan file. Demand in Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville leads the work: can Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville's surrounding market sustain the volume needed, set against rivals in areas such as Brevard County? For context, the median here stands at 1.20x of the median nationwide, so price the real scope against offers from nearby trades. Worth noting: the debt service test links revenue to cost for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville: forecast income set against the debt payments, plus a downside case. In addition, finally, the appraisal ends the sequence for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville: value as built must support the amount put forward. Here, an applicant armed with a separate written study of Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, before meeting a lender, addresses these rates before they are raised; credit is decided by the lender and SBA for Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, and no study can promise it.

SBA loans in the Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY20261,155
Gross dollars approved$658.2 million
Median loan$250,000
Middle half of loans, from$60,000
Middle half of loans, to$624,500
SBA 7(a) loans1,026
SBA 504 loans129
Franchise share of loans14.4%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans84 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.20x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)9.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)11.1%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)5.7%
Charged off within five years of approval3.0%
Loans in that cohort473

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 Palm Bay-Melbourne-Titusville, FL Metro Area, by fiscal year

050100150200FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 127Loans, FY2018: 121Loans, FY2019: 105Loans, FY2020: 68Loans, FY2021: 105Loans, FY2022: 94Loans, FY2023: 103Loans, FY2024: 127Loans, FY2025: 174Loans, FY2026: 131
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017127$61.1 million
FY2018121$39.1 million
FY2019105$70.4 million
FY202068$45.3 million
FY2021105$75.6 million
FY202294$76.6 million
FY2023103$50.2 million
FY2024127$58.4 million
FY2025174$98.5 million
FY2026131$83.0 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes810
Full-service restaurant68
Child care center46
Limited-service restaurant38
Fitness center21
Dental office20
Medical office (physicians)20
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)18
Hotel and motel17
Car wash16
Beauty salon15
Coffee shop and snack bar12
Gas station and truck stop9
Assisted living (without nursing care)6
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic6
Veterinary clinic5
Grocery store5

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 First Capital Finance Corporation, Inc.75$78.9 million
Florida Business Development Corporation47$41.3 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
TD Bank, National Association220$21.2 million
The Huntington National Bank54$24.3 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association53$16.0 million
JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association45$12.9 million
Northeast Bank (ME)43$6.8 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
Brevard County, FL1,155

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-37340.

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