Feasibility Study Data for the Sioux Falls, SD-MN Metro Area

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

Sioux Falls: volume, rank and loan size

SBA approved 1,048 loans in Sioux Falls from FY2017 to FY2026, $547.1 million in gross dollars. Sioux Falls sits at 94 of 928 among areas ranked by loans. Sioux Falls loans center on $264,000, the median. Middle half in Sioux Falls: $100,750 to $590,000. The Sioux Falls median sits at 1.27x nationally. Program mix for Sioux Falls: 610 7(a), 438 504. Sioux Falls shows a franchise share of 12.4%. Sioux Falls dollars add to $547.1 million.

Sioux Falls: classes and counties

Sioux Falls class leaders by loans: full-service restaurant (42), limited-service restaurant (32), and child care center (30). Fourth in Sioux Falls is hotel and motel, with 24 loans. 775 Sioux Falls loans sit in no tracked class. Most Sioux Falls credit is general business lending. County placement in Sioux Falls is led by Minnehaha County, SD (727), Lincoln County, SD (269), and Rock County, MN (21). At the other end, McCook County, SD holds 14 loans, a sign that Sioux Falls is not one market.

Sioux Falls: SBA lender records

Lenders named below are the ones SBA now shows as holding the Sioux Falls loans beside their names. Sioux Falls holders under 7(a) include 44 loans at First Bank & Trust ($29.2 million) and 27 loans at Black Hills FCU ($4.5 million). Sioux Falls 504 holders include 66 loans at South Dakota Development Corporation ($48.4 million) and 26 loans at Ally Dakota Development, Inc. ($23.5 million). For a Sioux Falls borrower, these rows give background only. No Sioux Falls row states a holder's terms.

Sioux Falls: floors, and what is withheld

Of Sioux Falls approvals from FY2017 to FY2024, 11.6% were cancelled, a floor. Treating undisbursed Sioux Falls loans as cancelled gives 12.2%, the ceiling. Charged off to date in Sioux Falls: 4.0%, a floor, across 450 disbursed loans of FY2017 to FY2021. The Sioux Falls five-year figure is 2.9%. A lender reading Sioux Falls takes both rates as the least. Sioux Falls history only grows. In Sioux Falls, a county name places each loan. For Sioux Falls, the July 2023 list governs. Sioux Falls omits loans with no county match. The Sioux Falls total includes loans outside the classes.

Sioux Falls: study points

Sioux Falls approvals were thinnest in FY2019 (65 loans, $28.9 million) and heaviest in FY2021 (148 loans, $76.6 million). The first year, FY2017, shows 98 loans and $42.7 million for Sioux Falls. The latest year, FY2026, shows 97 loans and $60.2 million for Sioux Falls. In Sioux Falls, demand testing starts with Minnehaha County, SD and the businesses already serving it. Cost follows in Sioux Falls: site, build and equipment priced against a $264,000 median. Sioux Falls is 1.27x of the national one. A Sioux Falls study runs coverage on a slow ramp. Sioux Falls history of cancellations argues for it. The Sioux Falls appraiser reads local comparables. The Sioux Falls study reconciles them to cost. Absorption near Minnehaha County, SD is tested for Sioux Falls on a slow case. The Sioux Falls study states its limits beside Minnehaha County, SD findings.

SBA loans in the Sioux Falls, SD-MN Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY20261,048
Gross dollars approved$547.1 million
Median loan$264,000
Middle half of loans, from$100,750
Middle half of loans, to$590,000
SBA 7(a) loans610
SBA 504 loans438
Franchise share of loans12.4%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans94 of 928
Median loan against the national median1.27x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)11.6%
The same, counting loans still undisbursed as cancelled (a ceiling)12.2%
Charged off to date, FY2017 to FY2021 disbursed loans (a floor)4.0%
Charged off within five years of approval2.9%
Loans in that cohort450

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 Sioux Falls, SD-MN Metro Area, by fiscal year

050100150FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 98Loans, FY2018: 84Loans, FY2019: 65Loans, FY2020: 115Loans, FY2021: 148Loans, FY2022: 99Loans, FY2023: 91Loans, FY2024: 110Loans, FY2025: 141Loans, FY2026: 97
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201798$42.7 million
FY201884$36.1 million
FY201965$28.9 million
FY2020115$46.1 million
FY2021148$76.6 million
FY202299$60.3 million
FY202391$56.8 million
FY2024110$58.1 million
FY2025141$81.2 million
FY202697$60.2 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes775
Full-service restaurant42
Limited-service restaurant32
Child care center30
Hotel and motel24
Coffee shop and snack bar20
Fitness center19
Automotive mechanical repair (car and truck)16
Self storage15
Dental office12
Beauty salon11
Assisted living (without nursing care)8
Gas station and truck stop6
Car wash6
Rehabilitation and therapy clinic5

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
Dakota Business Finance321$250.0 million
South Dakota Development Corporation66$48.4 million
Ally Dakota Development, Inc.26$23.5 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
The First National Bank in Sioux Falls149$39.6 million
U.S. Bank, National Association51$2.4 million
First Bank & Trust44$29.2 million
Wells Fargo Bank National Association36$12.5 million
Black Hills FCU27$4.5 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
Minnehaha County, SD727
Lincoln County, SD269
Rock County, MN21
Turner County, SD17
McCook County, SD14

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-43620.

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