Illinois micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Darien, Illinois
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Darien runs 78.6 providers per 10,000 residents, 173 clinicians against 22,015 people, 27 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, while DuPage County lenders have approved 44 healthcare files worth $21,678,600 and the nearest metro is 17 miles out.
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- Population: 22,015 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 173 across 26 fields2
- Median household income: $109,3543
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 47 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 4 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, 17 miles1
Fields practicing inside Darien
173 providers across 26 fields, 78.6 per 10,000 residents, counted at Darien addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 47 | 21.3 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 23 | 10.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 18 | 8.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 14 | 6.4 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 13 | 5.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 9 | 4.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 5 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 5 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 5 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 5 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 4 | 1.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 3 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Pain management and interventional | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Mobile diagnostics | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 2 | 0.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 1 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 4 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 4 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 47 of the 173 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
What lenders have already approved in DuPage County
Lenders in DuPage County have already closed 44 healthcare approvals, averaging $492,695, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 44 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Total approved capital | $21,678,600 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Mean deal size | $492,695 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 607 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
78.6 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. 44 approvals worth $21,678,600 in DuPage County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. Household income of $109,354 in Darien is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
The programs this provider mix points at
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in Darien does not appear. Availability is still a Illinois question.
Underwriting by field in Darien
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, general dentistry, chiropractic account for most of what is enumerated in Darien, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (47) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| General dentistry (23) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
| Chiropractic (18) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
Counts in the first column are Darien providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Darien, not what any funder will do with your file.
Darien against nearby Illinois markets
Comparables travel. These are the Illinois towns whose density, at 78.6 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Darien (current) | 22,015 | 173 | 78.6 | |
| Westmont | 24,308 | 475 | 195.4 | 3 |
| Woodridge | 34,103 | 310 | 90.9 | 3 |
| Burr Ridge | 11,202 | 297 | 265.1 | 3 |
| Hinsdale | 17,598 | 522 | 296.6 | 5 |
| Lemont | 18,203 | 166 | 91.2 | 5 |
| Lisle | 23,548 | 333 | 141.4 | 6 |
What the geography does to a Darien projection
17 miles separate Darien from Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Lease pricing follows Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, while revenue stays capped by the 22,015 residents here. At $109,354 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
Other Illinois markets
Darien owners, answered
01How many providers practice in Darien, and in what?
NPPES lists 173 providers at a Darien practice address, 78.6 per 10,000 residents across 26 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 47 of them, 27 percent of the total, with general dentistry next at 23. Read that as clinicians: 173 enumerations, not 173 owners.
02What does SBA lending look like around Darien?
$21,678,600 went to healthcare borrowers in DuPage County across 44 approvals, $492,695 on average. Deals near Darien get sized against that record before anything else.
03What does a $109,354 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Darien runs $109,354. 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 DuPage County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on DuPage County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 22,015 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
05How many Medicare-certified providers are based in Darien?
Care Compare lists 4 certified providers with a Darien address. That count is a proxy for how much of the local revenue arrives on a federal payment cycle rather than at the front desk.
06Which fields carry the volume in Darien?
The 26 enumerated fields are led by physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 47, with general dentistry at 23 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
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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