Georgia micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Sugar Hill, Georgia
Direct answer
A Sugar Hill file is read against 83 local clinicians, 29.0 for every 10,000 of its 28,598 residents, 27 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, plus the 39 SBA healthcare approvals worth $20,020,400 already recorded in Gwinnett County, 18 miles from Gainesville, GA.
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- Population: 28,598 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 83 across 18 fields2
- Median household income: $99,4793
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 22 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Gainesville, GA, 18 miles1
Fields practicing inside Sugar Hill
83 providers across 18 fields, 29.0 per 10,000 residents, counted at Sugar Hill addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 22 | 7.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 13 | 4.5 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 9 | 3.1 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 6 | 2.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 5 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 4 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 4 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 4 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 3 | 1.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 2 | 0.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 1 | CMS [4] | |
| Hospice providers | 1 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 22 of the 83 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
Gwinnett County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
The published file shows 39 healthcare approvals in Gwinnett County, $20,020,400 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| SBA healthcare approvals | 39 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Approved dollars | $20,020,400 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Average approval | $513,344 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Lending establishments in the county | 531 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
At 29.0 clinicians per 10,000 residents, the catchment radius in a projection has to be defended rather than assumed. A request measured against 39 prior Gwinnett County approvals is priced on precedent, which shortens the questions about valuation. With $99,479 as the median household income, the payer mix in a projection has to match what Sugar Hill households actually spend.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Working capital term loan
- Medical receivables factoring
The order comes from Sugar Hill's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 27 percent. What a partner can actually place in Georgia is a separate question.
What a funder reads first in Sugar Hill
What a funder opens first depends on the field. In Sugar Hill that means physical, occupational, and speech therapy, chiropractic, dme and hme suppliers.
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (22) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Chiropractic (13) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
| DME and HME suppliers (9) | Accreditation and surety bond status, Rental versus sale revenue split, Denial rate and documentation quality | Inventory and rental fleet |
Counts in the first column are Sugar Hill providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Sugar Hill, not what any funder will do with your file.
Density beside the neighboring Georgia towns
Comparables travel. These are the Georgia towns whose density, at 29.0 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sugar Hill (current) | 28,598 | 83 | 29.0 | |
| Buford | 18,642 | 523 | 280.5 | 3 |
| Suwanee | 23,062 | 895 | 388.1 | 3 |
| Duluth | 33,157 | 1,033 | 311.5 | 9 |
| Flowery Branch | 12,292 | 152 | 123.7 | 9 |
| Lawrenceville | 31,877 | 1,821 | 571.3 | 9 |
| Cumming | 10,175 | 1,209 | 1188.2 | 10 |
How Sugar Hill sits against the nearest metro
Distance to Gainesville, GA is 18 miles. Appraisers borrow Gainesville, GA rents, and the 28,598 residents set the ceiling on collections. At $99,479 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed.
Nearby Georgia towns
- Buford 18,642 residents
- Suwanee 23,062 residents
- Duluth 33,157 residents
- Flowery Branch 12,292 residents
- Lawrenceville 31,877 residents
- Cumming 10,175 residents
Sugar Hill owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Sugar Hill, and in what?
NPPES lists 83 providers at a Sugar Hill practice address, 29.0 per 10,000 residents across 18 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 22 of them, 27 percent of the total, with chiropractic next at 13. Read that as clinicians: 83 enumerations, not 83 owners.
02What does SBA lending look like around Sugar Hill?
$20,020,400 went to healthcare borrowers in Gwinnett County across 39 approvals, $513,344 on average. Deals near Sugar Hill get sized against that record before anything else.
03What does a $99,479 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Sugar Hill runs $99,479. 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.
04What does Gwinnett County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Gwinnett County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 28,598 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
05Which fields carry the volume in Sugar Hill?
The 18 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 22, with chiropractic at 13 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
06Is Sugar Hill underwritten as part of Gainesville, GA?
Gainesville, GA sits 18 miles away, close enough that appraisers reach into that market for rent and resale comparables while your patient draw stays local. The comparables read Gainesville, GA; the 28,598 residents set the ceiling a projection can defend.
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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