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Small Business Loans

Variable Definitions:

CRA Loan Count: The number of CRA loans granted to small businesses in a given area

CRA Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of CRA loans granted to small businesses in a given area

SBA 7a Loan Count: The number of SBA 7a loans granted to small businesses in a given area

SBA 7a Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of SBA 7a loans granted to small businesses in a given area

SBA 504 Loan Count: The number of SBA 504 loans granted to small businesses in a given area

SBA 504 Loan Amount: The total dollar amount of SBA 504 loans granted to small businesses in a given area

Source:
CRA Loans: Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council

7a & 504 Loans: Small Business Administration

Years Available:
2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021

Methodology Note:

The CRA Loan data comes at the census tract level. SBA Loan data comes at comes at the point level. Our team geocoded the locations to generate X/Y coordinates, then spatial joined each point to 2020 Census Tracts. CRA and SBA data is then collapsed at the census tract level and merged into one dataset for publishing.

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