Iowa micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Grimes, Iowa
Direct answer
17,266 residents, 91 enumerated clinicians, 52.7 per 10,000, 30 percent of them in chiropractic: that is the Grimes market a funder prices. Polk County adds 19 healthcare approvals worth $10,335,800 and 12 miles of distance to Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA.
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- Population: 17,266 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 91 across 17 fields2
- Median household income: $104,4973
- Largest provider field: Chiropractic: 27 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA, 12 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 19 approvals totaling $10,335,8004
Grimes clinicians, by field
Counted at the town's own addresses: 91 providers, 17 fields, 52.7 clinicians per 10,000 of the 17,266 residents here
| Practice type | Count | Rate per 10,000 residents | Published by |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chiropractic | 27 | 15.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 15 | 8.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 10 | 5.8 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 8 | 4.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 6 | 3.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 5 | 2.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 4 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 4 | 2.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 3 | CMS [5] |
Several of the 27 chiropractic enumerations can belong to one practice, so the column counts clinicians rather than businesses or owners
The lending record behind Grimes
The published file shows 19 healthcare approvals in Polk County, $10,335,800 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 | 19 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [4] |
| Dollars behind them | $10,335,800 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [4] |
| Typical approval size | $543,989 | Dollars divided by approvals [4] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 341 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Grimes the way a credit committee does
52.7 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. 19 approvals worth $10,335,800 in Polk County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. A $104,497 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
The programs this provider mix points at
- Startup and de novo
- Practice acquisition
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
Weighted by how often each of the 17 local fields reaches for a program, not by what is easiest to refer. Iowa rules and the partner decide availability.
The first pages of a Grimes file
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: chiropractic, physical, occupational, and speech therapy, primary care and family medicine
| Specialty | Read first in underwriting | Why the money is usually needed |
|---|---|---|
| Chiropractic (27) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (15) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Primary care and family medicine (10) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Counts in the first column are Grimes providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Grimes, not what any funder will do with your file.
Grimes against nearby Iowa markets
Comparables travel. These are the Iowa towns whose density, at 52.7 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Grimes (current) | 17,266 | 91 | 52.7 | |
| Urbandale | 47,759 | 380 | 79.6 | 3 |
| Clive | 19,508 | 315 | 161.5 | 4 |
| Johnston | 25,022 | 418 | 167.1 | 4 |
| Waukee | 34,420 | 216 | 62.8 | 7 |
| Ankeny | 76,727 | 622 | 81.1 | 11 |
| Norwalk | 15,396 | 135 | 87.7 | 14 |
What the geography does to a Grimes projection
Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA lies 12 miles from Grimes, close enough that appraisers price the lease against Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA rents while 17,266 residents set the revenue ceiling. At $104,497 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. Referral flow comes from outside Grimes, which a projection needs to state plainly.
Other Iowa markets
What owners in Grimes ask
01How many providers practice in Grimes, and in what?
Across 17 fields, Grimes carries 91 enumerated clinicians, 52.7 per 10,000 of the 17,266 people living here. The concentration is in chiropractic, 27 of the total, then physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 15. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does Polk County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Polk County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 17,266 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Which fields carry the volume in Grimes?
Chiropractic at 27 providers and physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 15 lead the 17 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.
04Is Grimes underwritten as part of Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA?
Comparables and demand split at 12 miles. An appraiser prices the lease and the equipment off Des Moines-West Des Moines, IA; the revenue line has to hold up against 17,266 local residents.
05What does a $104,497 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Grimes runs $104,497. 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.
06What does SBA lending look like around Grimes?
Healthcare borrowers in Polk County took 19 approvals worth $10,335,800 in the published fiscal year, averaging $543,989. That is the comparable set an appraiser near Grimes 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
- 4U.S. Small Business Administration, 7(a) and 504 approvals
- 5CMS Care Compare provider datasets
- 6U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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