Feasibility Study Data for the Twin Falls, ID Metro Area

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

Twin Falls among metropolitan areas, ranked by 251 loans

Among metro and micro areas, Twin Falls ranks 271 of 928 by loans, with 251 approvals over FY2017 to FY2026 and $118.1 million gross. Smaller tickets mark Twin Falls. The Twin Falls median of $175,000 is 0.84x the national figure; in Twin Falls, half of loans span $72,300 to $466,000. The gap between $72,300 and $466,000 in Twin Falls shows how varied borrowers are. Twin Falls offers no typical loan in Twin Falls.

By program, Twin Falls holds 198 SBA 7(a) loans beside 53 SBA 504 loans. Franchised businesses in Twin Falls make up 10.8% of loans. In Twin Falls, ID, classes rank dental office with 8, medical office with 7 and hotel and motel with 5. 178 Twin Falls loans belong to no tracked class. The 251 total counts them. Twin Falls project locations concentrate in Twin Falls County, ID with 221 and Jerome County, ID with 30 in Twin Falls.

Twin Falls, ID: lenders behind the 251 loans

In Twin Falls, lender lines come from SBA's file view in Twin Falls of loans a firm keeps or kept in Twin Falls, in the holder field, and they describe a book only. Twin Falls holders should be read that way. In Twin Falls, leading SBA 7(a) holders are D. L. Evans Bank with 30 loans worth $4.4 million; Zions Bancorporation, National Association with 30 loans worth $4.1 million; Idaho Central CU with 15 loans worth $6.5 million. In the Twin Falls SBA 504 table, the leading holders are Region IV Development Corporation with 31 loans worth $16.1 million; Capital Matrix, Inc. with 9 loans worth $6.6 million; East-Central Idaho Development Company with 5 loans worth $4.8 million. In Twin Falls, the top holder leads the rest. A Twin Falls borrower may still approach any lender in Twin Falls.

Cancellation floor, Twin Falls: 11.6% of FY2017 to FY2024 approvals. One more Twin Falls figure, a ceiling treating loans awaiting disbursement as cancelled stays unprinted for Twin Falls, as withheld. Twin Falls charge-offs to date, for the funded loans in Twin Falls of FY2017 to FY2021 is withheld in Twin Falls, resting on too few loans; the Twin Falls gap is not zero and not estimated. Twin Falls approvals peaked in FY2017, at 34 loans. Boundaries for Twin Falls come from the county of the project, matched using the July 2023 delineation, therefore that loan with an unmatched county is left out of every area. The 251 loans in Twin Falls, ID include those in no named class in Twin Falls.

Twin Falls: testing a project in Twin Falls, ID

The Twin Falls test begins with demand. Size the real catchment of the project address alone, and let a weak first year pass. After demand, Twin Falls cost. $175,000 is the median ticket in Twin Falls, a guide in Twin Falls, while each line belongs on a quote, including a reserve for slow Twin Falls months. Coverage of debt service is the Twin Falls test. Test coverage at the requested size also with lower sales, with interest and term stated for Twin Falls. The Twin Falls appraisal is the final gate: so any rent figure ought to trace to evidence in Twin Falls. In Twin Falls, 251 loans spread over many neighbourhoods, and a Twin Falls study must say which it targets. At 0.84x of the national median, Twin Falls projects run modest in Twin Falls. A large project must show why Twin Falls can absorb its scale, against $175,000.

SBA loans in the Twin Falls, ID Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY2026251
Gross dollars approved$118.1 million
Median loan$175,000
Middle half of loans, from$72,300
Middle half of loans, to$466,000
SBA 7(a) loans198
SBA 504 loans53
Franchise share of loans10.8%
Rank among metro and micro areas by loans271 of 928
Median loan against the national median0.84x

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)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 loans approved in the Twin Falls, ID Metro Area, by fiscal year

010203040FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2017: 34Loans, FY2018: 26Loans, FY2019: 24Loans, FY2020: 29Loans, FY2021: 24Loans, FY2022: 19Loans, FY2023: 17Loans, FY2024: 26Loans, FY2025: 31Loans, FY2026: 21
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY201734$10.7 million
FY201826$14.6 million
FY201924$11.9 million
FY202029$12.4 million
FY202124$15.6 million
FY202219$5.1 million
FY202317$10.9 million
FY202426$9.4 million
FY202531$14.4 million
FY202621$13.1 million

Loans by asset class

Asset classLoans
Not in any of the 39 asset classes178
Dental office8
Medical office (physicians)7
Hotel and motel5
Limited-service restaurant5

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
Region IV Development Corporation31$16.1 million
Capital Matrix, Inc.9$6.6 million
East-Central Idaho Development Company5$4.8 million
SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
D. L. Evans Bank30$4.4 million
Zions Bancorporation, National Association30$4.1 million
Idaho Central CU15$6.5 million
U.S. Bank, National Association14$3.1 million
Columbia Bank (OR)13$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
Twin Falls County, ID221
Jerome County, ID30

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-46300.

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