Physical Therapy Clinic Feasibility Study in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about rehabilitation and therapy clinic lending in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

San Diego therapy clinics: a high cancellation floor

Rehabilitation and therapy clinics rank sixteenth locally in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, 16 of 39, and the metro stands 18 of 406 nationally, with a location quotient of 0.89x that sits a little below the national weight. The 38 loans total $13.6 million across FY2017 to FY2026. Loan size in San Diego: $185,500 at the median (1.24x nationally) and $104,275 to $400,575 through the middle half.

By program the 38 loans divide into 30 on 7(a) and 8 on 504, and all of them sit in San Diego County, CA, so metro and county coincide. No holder reaches the listing threshold, which is why no lender is named, and Loan Analytics withholds the franchise share. For a borrower, the practical meaning is that a lender comparison must come from beyond this page, and that no brand benchmark exists for a clinic here.

Loss floor and years

The floor for cancellation after approval is 20.0% (FY2017 to FY2024 approvals), and the rest of the loss picture is withheld by Loan Analytics; withheld values are not zero. The floor deserves a borrower's attention. Three years print, each on 5 loans: $1.1 million in FY2017, $1.6 million in FY2018 and $2.0 million in FY2020. The remaining years are held back, so lending after FY2020 cannot be read, and the early figures say little about conditions today.

Metro membership for San Diego follows the loan's project county; an unplaceable county means the loan is left out of the area figures. All 38 loans share one county, so the county and metro counts agree, and the program split of 30 loans on 7(a) and 8 on 504 describes the whole record.

What a San Diego therapy clinic study has to test

Where patients come from, which payers cover them and which rival practices sit in each submarket are the first questions. Tenant improvements and equipment are costed against the $185,500 midpoint, therapist payroll must leave visits enough to meet the debt, and valuation separates the practice from any real estate. All 38 loans being in San Diego County, a study can compare the site with the whole local record rather than a subset of it. A study is never a commitment that a lender will approve.

SBA rehabilitation and therapy clinic loans in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202638
Gross dollars approved$13.6 million
Median loan$185,500
Middle half of loans, from$104,275
Middle half of loans, to$400,575
SBA 7(a) loans30
SBA 504 loans8
Franchise share of loanswithheld
Rank among metro and micro areas for rehabilitation and therapy clinic loans18 of 406
Rank of rehabilitation and therapy clinic among the classes in this area16 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.89x
Median loan against the national median for the class1.24x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)20.0%
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 rehabilitation and therapy clinic loans approved in the San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA Metro Area, by fiscal year

012345FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 5Loans, FY2018: 5Loans, FY2020: 5
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY20175$1.1 million
FY20185$1.6 million
FY2019withheldwithheld
FY20205$2.0 million
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY2024withheldwithheld
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Where the loans are, by county

CountyLoans
San Diego County, CA38

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-41740-C22.

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