Arkansas micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Jacksonville, Arkansas
Direct answer
Pulaski County carries 10 SBA healthcare approvals worth $4,963,200, and inside Jacksonville the census shows 241 enumerated clinicians against 29,129 residents, 82.7 per 10,000, 33 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR lies 17 miles away.
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- Population: 29,129 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 241 across 17 fields2
- Median household income: $46,9473
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 79 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR, 17 miles1
Who is enumerated in Jacksonville
82.7 providers per 10,000 residents is what 241 enumerations across 17 fields works out to in a town of 29,129
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 79 | 27.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 38 | 13.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 33 | 11.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 18 | 6.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 16 | 5.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 9 | 3.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 9 | 3.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 8 | 2.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 7 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 6 | 2.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 5 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 3 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 3 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 6 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Jacksonville practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 33 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
Loan activity in Pulaski County
10 healthcare approvals averaging $496,320 set the deal shape lenders in Pulaski County have already underwritten
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 10 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Total approved capital | $4,963,200 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Mean deal size | $496,320 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 342 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Jacksonville the way a credit committee does
A file from here opens on 82.7 providers per 10,000 residents, and everything about volume follows from it. 10 approvals worth $4,963,200 in Pulaski County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. A $46,947 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
Programs the Jacksonville mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Medical receivables factoring
Ranked from the 17 fields that actually practice in Jacksonville, weighted toward physical, occupational, and speech therapy. Availability still depends on Arkansas and on the funding partner.
Underwriting by field in Jacksonville
What a funder opens first depends on the field. In Jacksonville that means physical, occupational, and speech therapy, behavioral and mental health group practices, primary care and family medicine.
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (79) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices (38) | Clinician retention and productivity, Payer mix and Medicaid concentration, Re-authorization and session limit exposure | Working capital through the credentialing lag |
| Primary care and family medicine (33) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Local counts come from NPPES. What a file turns on is drawn from how the field is generally reviewed, not from any decision about your practice.
Jacksonville against nearby Arkansas markets
Comparables travel. These are the Arkansas towns whose density, at 82.7 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jacksonville (current) | 29,129 | 241 | 82.7 | |
| Sherwood | 33,281 | 256 | 76.9 | 5 |
| Cabot | 27,575 | 222 | 80.5 | 9 |
| Maumelle | 19,541 | 127 | 65.0 | 15 |
| Bryant | 22,271 | 269 | 120.8 | 27 |
| Benton | 38,088 | 444 | 116.6 | 32 |
| Searcy | 23,997 | 511 | 212.9 | 34 |
What the geography does to a Jacksonville projection
17 miles separate Jacksonville from Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR. Lease pricing follows Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR, while revenue stays capped by the 29,129 residents here. Households here carry $46,947 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. A Medicare-certified hospital operates here, so referral flow is verifiable and the clinical wage floor is already set. A college in Jacksonville puts a term-shaped curve into monthly collections.
Nearby Arkansas towns
What owners in Jacksonville ask
01How many providers practice in Jacksonville, and in what?
241 enumerations sit at Jacksonville addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 82.7 for every 10,000 residents. 33 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and behavioral and mental health group practices follows with 38. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 241 here cover fewer than 241 practices.
02What does Pulaski County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Pulaski County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 29,129 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03How does the hospital in Jacksonville affect a practice file?
A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town, which gives referral flow, a call schedule, and a clinical labor pool a funder can verify. 1 Medicare-certified providers are located here in total. It also sets the wage floor behind every hire in a 82.7 per 10,000 market.
04Which fields carry the volume in Jacksonville?
The 17 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 79, with behavioral and mental health group practices at 38 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
05Is Jacksonville underwritten as part of Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR?
Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR sits 17 miles away, close enough that appraisers reach into that market for rent and resale comparables while your patient draw stays local. The comparables read Little Rock-North Little Rock-Conway, AR; the 29,129 residents set the ceiling a projection can defend.
06Is there local lending capacity in Pulaski County?
County Business Patterns records 342 credit intermediation establishments in Pulaski County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Jacksonville rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
Sources
- 1U.S. Census Bureau, Population Estimates, vintage 2024
- 2CMS NPPES, monthly full replacement file
- 3U.S. Census Bureau, ACS 5-year 2023, table B19013
- 4CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 5U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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