Minnesota micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Richfield, Minnesota
Direct answer
36,491 residents, 327 enumerated clinicians, 89.6 per 10,000, 22 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the Richfield market a funder prices. Hennepin County adds 72 healthcare approvals worth $39,696,100 and 6 miles of distance to Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI.
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- Population: 36,491 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 327 across 23 fields2
- Median household income: $84,0553
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 73 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 1 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, 6 miles1
Richfield clinicians, by field
327 providers across 23 fields, 89.6 per 10,000 residents, counted at Richfield addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 73 | 20.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 37 | 10.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 26 | 7.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 24 | 6.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 24 | 6.6 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 22 | 6.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 18 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 16 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 15 | 4.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 14 | 3.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 11 | 3.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 7 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 6 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 4 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 4 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 3 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 8 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Richfield practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 22 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What Hennepin County credit files already show
72 healthcare approvals averaging $551,335 set the deal shape lenders in Hennepin County have already underwritten
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 72 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Total approved capital | $39,696,100 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Mean deal size | $551,335 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 836 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
Reading Richfield the way a credit committee does
89.6 per 10,000 is the first number a credit analyst converts into a realistic new-patient count. 72 approvals worth $39,696,100 in Hennepin County means the size you are asking for has a local precedent to point at. A $84,055 median household income here sets the ceiling on what an elective or cash-pay line can be expected to carry.
Programs the Richfield mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
Built from what is enumerated here rather than from a national list, so a field with no presence in Richfield does not appear. Availability is still a Minnesota question.
Underwriting by field in Richfield
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, chiropractic, primary care and family medicine
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (73) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Chiropractic (37) | Cash plan revenue, Personal injury receivable age, Visit volume | Startup or acquisition |
| Primary care and family medicine (26) | Panel size, Value-based contract exposure, Provider productivity | Acquisition |
Counts in the first column are Richfield providers from NPPES. The other two columns describe how funders read that field across markets like Richfield, not what any funder will do with your file.
Density beside the neighboring Minnesota towns
The neighboring markets below are the ones a valuation borrows from when Richfield has too few sales of its own
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Richfield (current) | 36,491 | 327 | 89.6 | |
| Hopkins | 19,462 | 194 | 99.7 | 7 |
| Mendota Heights | 11,542 | 126 | 109.2 | 7 |
| Golden Valley | 21,263 | 483 | 227.2 | 9 |
| Savage | 32,896 | 171 | 52.0 | 9 |
| Apple Valley | 55,272 | 395 | 71.5 | 10 |
| Inver Grove Heights | 36,226 | 206 | 56.9 | 11 |
What the geography does to a Richfield projection
6 miles separate Richfield from Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Lease pricing follows Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, while revenue stays capped by the 36,491 residents here. Households here carry $84,055 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
Nearby Minnesota towns
- Hopkins 19,462 residents
- Mendota Heights 11,542 residents
- Golden Valley 21,263 residents
- Savage 32,896 residents
- Apple Valley 55,272 residents
- Inver Grove Heights 36,226 residents
What owners in Richfield ask
01How many providers practice in Richfield, and in what?
Across 23 fields, Richfield carries 327 enumerated clinicians, 89.6 per 10,000 of the 36,491 people living here. The concentration is in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 73 of the total, then chiropractic at 37. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does SBA lending look like around Richfield?
The county file behind Richfield holds 72 healthcare approvals totaling $39,696,100, an average of $551,335. Those are the loan sizes lenders in Hennepin County have already carried.
03What does Hennepin County's shortage designation change?
Designated for primary care, dental, mental health, Hennepin County qualifies its clinicians for federal repayment support. On a file that turns on adding staff, that is the difference between a hiring assumption and a hiring plan.
04Which fields carry the volume in Richfield?
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy at 73 providers and chiropractic at 37 lead the 23 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.
05Is Richfield underwritten as part of Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI?
Partly. Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI is 6 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 36,491 residents around Richfield. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
06Is there local lending capacity in Hennepin County?
County Business Patterns records 836 credit intermediation establishments in Hennepin County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Richfield 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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