Veterinary Clinic Feasibility Study in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about veterinary clinic lending in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Veterinary clinics low on the local list

Veterinary clinic is ranked at 20 of 39 among Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's classes, and Detroit-Warren-Dearborn is listed at 29 of 485 for it nationally. From FY2017 through FY2026, 25 loans were approved for $17.8 million, with 14 in Oakland County. Measured as a location quotient, veterinary clinic loans score 0.42x in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, a lighter slice than nationally. The quotient is well under one.

The middle loan, at $506,000, stands at 0.81x the national figure for veterinary clinics, and half of all loans land between $300,000 and $981,000. 7(a) accounts for 19 loans and 504 for 6, out of 25. The franchise share is 0.00%. Detroit-Warren-Dearborn: the totals count merely SBA-recorded veterinary clinic loans, so a study in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn should use them as merely one input for veterinary clinic.

The 504 holder

Among the 504 loans, Holder of 6 504 loans worth $4.5 million: Michigan Certified Development Corporation. No judgement of any lender's practice is intended or implied.

Three years are printed: FY2018 at 7 loans and $5.5 million, FY2019: no loans and $0 and FY2024: no loans and $0. The empty rows for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn are complete years with no loans. We leave out Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's two cancellation and charge-off rates as the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn FY2017-to-FY2021 pool has beneath 30 loans, under our own rule for Detroit-Warren-Dearborn. A withheld rate in Detroit-Warren-Dearborn is never a zero.

A veterinary clinic in the Detroit area has to test the pet-owning households within reach of the site, the exam rooms and surgical capacity the space gives, and the staff it can recruit. Show payment cover on a loan near $506,000 and on a larger one for a purpose-built hospital, each with a slow-growth case. With the veterinary clinic class low on the local list, explain what supports the demand assumed. The federal delineation draws Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, and loans from counties Detroit-Warren-Dearborn fails to match are absent from the totals.

What Detroit-Warren-Dearborn's numbers say

A lender will see that the veterinary clinic class ranks 20 of 39 in the area and that its quotient is low, so veterinary lending is a minor part of the local record, and a request will be read beside few precedents. An applicant should expect questions about demand and should supply local evidence. Oakland County supplies 14 of the 25 loans, which leaves the rest of Detroit-Warren-Dearborn thinly represented, and the 504 holder is a development company rather than a bank.

SBA veterinary clinic loans in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202625
Gross dollars approved$17.8 million
Median loan$506,000
Middle half of loans, from$300,000
Middle half of loans, to$981,000
SBA 7(a) loans19
SBA 504 loans6
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for veterinary clinic loans29 of 485
Rank of veterinary clinic among the classes in this area20 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.42x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.81x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)not reported: fewer than 30 loans in the cohort
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 veterinary clinic loans approved in the Detroit-Warren-Dearborn, MI Metro Area, by fiscal year

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 7Loans, FY2019: 0Loans, FY2024: 0
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20187$5.5 million
FY20190$0
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY2021withheldwithheld
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20240$0
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 504: lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Michigan Certified Development Corporation6$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
Oakland County, MI14

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-19820-C21.

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