Veterinary Clinic Feasibility Study in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area

What SBA's own loan files show about veterinary clinic lending in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area, and what a feasibility study for a project there has to test.

Minneapolis veterinary: twin Cities veterinary lending: light share, mid-sized loans

For veterinary clinic loans, Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington stands 16 of 485 among areas, while locally veterinary clinic stands 19 of 39. The quotient for location, 0.61x, says veterinary clinics weigh much less locally than nationally, and sit low in the area's class list. The area crosses into Wisconsin; the files list 41 loans for $34.4 million. A $331,000 median loan in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington compares at 0.53x with the national veterinary clinic median, while $150,000 to $927,000 holds the typical veterinary clinic loan.

Of the veterinary clinic approvals in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington, 30 came through SBA 7(a) and 11 through SBA 504. The franchised share in Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington reads 0.00%. Hennepin County shows 16 loans, Carver County shows 6 loans and Dakota County shows 6 loans. The 7(a) table lists Live Oak Banking Company, 5 loans and $12.7 million in all. Lender rows for Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington as whichever lender holds the paper, and no verdict on Live Oak Banking Company is implied. It records holdings alone.

Among Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington veterinary clinic loans, nothing prints for a charge-off rate plus a cancellation figure as no rate fits so few loans; silence is not nil. $2.1 million across 7 loans in FY2018; $918,700 across 7 loans in FY2019; $5.2 million across 5 loans in FY2021; and $12.4 million across 8 loans in FY2024.

Minneapolis veterinary: testing a Twin Cities veterinary plan

A study should test the client base, doctor and technician staffing, equipment, whether the building is owned, and a payment that holds through a doctor shortage. SBA assigns a veterinary clinic loan to Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington via a project county lookup measured on the July 2023 map. Unmatched counties are skipped. With the class sitting low in the local list, a lender may have fewer comparable files at hand, so a study should supply its own comparables: nearby clinics, visit volumes, pricing and staffing. It should also say whether the borrower is an associate buying in or an owner building a new hospital, since the two cases differ sharply. These records serve alongside a veterinary clinic venture within Minneapolis, St. Paul and Bloomington, authored by Daniel Smith, MAI, in person; no decision is assured.

SBA veterinary clinic loans in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area

Loans approved, FY2017 to FY202641
Gross dollars approved$34.4 million
Median loan$331,000
Middle half of loans, from$150,000
Middle half of loans, to$927,000
SBA 7(a) loans30
SBA 504 loans11
Franchise share of loans0.00%
Rank among metro and micro areas for veterinary clinic loans16 of 485
Rank of veterinary clinic among the classes in this area19 of 39
Location quotient (share of loans against the national share)0.61x
Median loan against the national median for the class0.53x

Cancellation and charge-off

Cancelled after approval, FY2017 to FY2024 approvals (a floor)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 veterinary clinic loans approved in the Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI Metro Area, by fiscal year

02468FY2017FY2018FY2019FY2020FY2021FY2022FY2023FY2024FY2025FY2026Loans, FY2018: 7Loans, FY2019: 7Loans, FY2021: 5Loans, FY2024: 8
Fiscal yearLoansDollars
FY2017withheldwithheld
FY20187$2.1 million
FY20197$918,700
FY2020withheldwithheld
FY20215$5.2 million
FY2022withheldwithheld
FY2023withheldwithheld
FY20248$12.4 million
FY2025withheldwithheld
FY2026withheldwithheld

Most active SBA lenders

SBA 7(a): lenders by loans approved (the current holder of each loan, as SBA reports it)
LenderLoansDollars
Live Oak Banking Company5$12.7 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
Hennepin County, MN16
Carver County, MN6
Dakota County, MN6

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-33460-C21.

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