Florida micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Safety Harbor, Florida
Direct answer
A Safety Harbor file is read against 171 local clinicians, 100.8 for every 10,000 of its 16,972 residents, 23 percent of them in specialty physician groups, plus the 29 SBA healthcare approvals worth $24,156,200 already recorded in Pinellas County, 14 miles from Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL.
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- Population: 16,972 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 171 across 20 fields2
- Median household income: $105,8133
- Largest provider field: Specialty physician groups: 40 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL, 14 miles1
- Hospital: A Medicare-certified hospital operates in the town4
Who is enumerated in Safety Harbor
171 providers across 20 fields, 100.8 per 10,000 residents, counted at Safety Harbor addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Specialty physician groups | 40 | 23.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 26 | 15.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 16 | 9.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 14 | 8.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 13 | 7.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 7 | 4.1 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 7 | 4.1 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 7 | 4.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 6 | 3.5 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 5 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 5 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 4 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 3 | 1.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Mobile diagnostics | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [4] |
Several of the 40 specialty physician groups enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
Pinellas County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
Lenders in Pinellas County have already closed 29 healthcare approvals, averaging $832,972, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 29 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $24,156,200 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Typical approval size | $832,972 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 635 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
The consequence of these numbers
The ratio that matters up front is 100.8 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. A request measured against 29 prior Pinellas County approvals is priced on precedent, which shortens the questions about valuation. With $105,813 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what Safety Harbor households actually spend.
The programs this provider mix points at
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
Ranked from the 20 fields that actually practice in Safety Harbor, weighted toward specialty physician groups. Availability still depends on Florida and on the funding partner.
The first pages of a Safety Harbor file
specialty physician groups, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine account for most of what is enumerated in Safety Harbor, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Specialty physician groups (40) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (26) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (16) | 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.
How Safety Harbor prices against its neighbors
Comparables travel. These are the Florida towns whose density, at 100.8 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Safety Harbor (current) | 16,972 | 171 | 100.8 | |
| Oldsmar | 14,831 | 186 | 125.4 | 3 |
| Dunedin | 35,932 | 334 | 93.0 | 6 |
| Tarpon Springs | 26,168 | 290 | 110.8 | 11 |
| Seminole | 19,395 | 407 | 209.8 | 12 |
| New Port Richey | 18,130 | 1,037 | 572.0 | 17 |
| Gulfport | 11,645 | 32 | 27.5 | 18 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Safety Harbor
Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL lies 14 miles from Safety Harbor, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL rents while 16,972 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $105,813 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. Wages here are anchored by the Medicare-certified hospital in town, which is what a staffing line gets measured against.
Other Florida markets
- Oldsmar 14,831 residents
- Dunedin 35,932 residents
- Tarpon Springs 26,168 residents
- Seminole 19,395 residents
- New Port Richey 18,130 residents
- Gulfport 11,645 residents
Safety Harbor owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Safety Harbor, and in what?
NPPES lists 171 providers at a Safety Harbor practice address, 100.8 per 10,000 residents across 20 tracked fields. Specialty physician groups accounts for 40 of them, 23 percent of the total, with physical, occupational, and speech therapy next at 26. Read that as clinicians: 171 enumerations, not 171 owners.
02What does a $105,813 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Safety Harbor runs $105,813. On elective and cash-pay work that is the number a funder converts into case acceptance, and it sets how much of a treatment plan a projection can assume gets started rather than deferred.
03What does Pinellas County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Pinellas County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 16,972 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04How does the hospital in Safety Harbor affect a practice file?
Referral flow, coverage, and the local pay scale all trace back to it. A Safety Harbor projection that names the call arrangement reads better than one that assumes it.
05Which fields carry the volume in Safety Harbor?
Specialty physician groups at 40 providers and physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 26 lead the 20 fields enumerated here. A funder reads that mix as the local competition set and the local hiring pool at once, before it reads a single line of your own numbers.
06What does SBA lending look like around Safety Harbor?
Healthcare borrowers in Pinellas County took 29 approvals worth $24,156,200 in the published fiscal year, averaging $832,972. That is the comparable set an appraiser near Safety Harbor reaches for first.
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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