Illinois micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Elmwood Park, Illinois
Direct answer
A Elmwood Park file is read against 127 local clinicians, 53.6 for every 10,000 of its 23,698 residents, 20 percent of them in general dentistry, plus the 122 SBA healthcare approvals worth $56,780,300 already recorded in Cook County, 9 miles from Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN.
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- Population: 23,698 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 127 across 19 fields2
- Median household income: $84,1213
- Largest provider field: General dentistry: 26 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN, 9 miles1
Elmwood Park clinicians, by field
Counted at the town's own addresses: 127 providers, 19 fields, 53.6 clinicians per 10,000 of the 23,698 residents here
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| General dentistry | 26 | 11.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 24 | 10.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 16 | 6.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 15 | 6.3 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 8 | 3.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 8 | 3.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 7 | 3.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 6 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 3 | 1.3 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 2 | CMS [4] | |
| Home health agencies | 1 | CMS [4] |
Several of the 26 general dentistry enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
What Cook County credit files already show
The published file shows 122 healthcare approvals in Cook County, $56,780,300 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| Measure | Published figure | What sits behind it |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 122 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $56,780,300 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Typical approval size | $465,412 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 2,528 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Elmwood Park the way a credit committee does
Underwriting starts with 53.6 providers per 10,000 residents, because that ratio caps how fast a chair or a room fills. Because Cook County already carries $56,780,300 across 122 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. A $84,121 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
Programs the Elmwood Park mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Working capital term loan
Ranked from the 19 fields that actually practice in Elmwood Park, weighted toward general dentistry. Availability still depends on Illinois and on the funding partner.
What a funder reads first in Elmwood Park
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: general dentistry, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| General dentistry (26) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (24) | 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 |
The first column is Elmwood Park's own NPPES count. The rest is how the field is generally underwritten, whether the address is Elmwood Park or anywhere else.
Elmwood Park against nearby Illinois markets
The neighboring markets below are the ones a valuation borrows from when Elmwood Park has too few sales of its own
| Comparable | People | Enumerations | Per 10,000 residents | Miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Elmwood Park (current) | 23,698 | 127 | 53.6 | |
| River Grove | 10,424 | 37 | 35.5 | 1 |
| River Forest | 11,909 | 167 | 140.2 | 2 |
| Franklin Park | 18,110 | 111 | 61.3 | 3 |
| Maywood | 23,364 | 813 | 348.0 | 3 |
| Melrose Park | 23,999 | 297 | 123.8 | 3 |
| Norridge | 14,817 | 112 | 75.6 | 3 |
Distance, income, and the wage floor around Elmwood Park
Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN lies 9 miles from Elmwood Park, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN rents while 23,698 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $84,121 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed.
More of Illinois
- River Grove 10,424 residents
- River Forest 11,909 residents
- Franklin Park 18,110 residents
- Maywood 23,364 residents
- Melrose Park 23,999 residents
- Norridge 14,817 residents
Questions from Elmwood Park
01How many providers practice in Elmwood Park, and in what?
NPPES lists 127 providers at a Elmwood Park practice address, 53.6 per 10,000 residents across 19 tracked fields. General dentistry accounts for 26 of them, 20 percent of the total, with physical, occupational, and speech therapy next at 24. Read that as clinicians: 127 enumerations, not 127 owners.
02What does SBA lending look like around Elmwood Park?
$56,780,300 went to healthcare borrowers in Cook County across 122 approvals, $465,412 on average. Deals near Elmwood Park get sized against that record before anything else.
03What does Cook County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Cook County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 23,698 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
04Which fields carry the volume in Elmwood Park?
The 19 enumerated fields are led by general dentistry at 26, with physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 24 behind it. Those two counts double as the competition you are entering and the bench you would hire from.
05Is Elmwood Park underwritten as part of Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN?
Partly. Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN is 9 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 23,698 residents around Elmwood Park. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
06Is there local lending capacity in Cook County?
County Business Patterns records 2,528 credit intermediation establishments in Cook County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Elmwood Park 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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