New Jersey micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in Fair Lawn, New Jersey
Direct answer
36,489 residents, 629 enumerated clinicians, 172.4 per 10,000, 35 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the Fair Lawn market a funder prices. Bergen County adds 39 healthcare approvals worth $19,343,600 and 21 miles of distance to New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ.
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- Population: 36,489 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 629 across 33 fields2
- Median household income: $147,9523
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 218 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 4 across 2 categories4
- Nearest metro: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 21 miles1
Fair Lawn clinicians, by field
The NPPES file puts 629 enumerated clinicians inside Fair Lawn, spread over 33 fields at 172.4 per 10,000 residents
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 218 | 59.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 61 | 16.7 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 44 | 12.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 39 | 10.7 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 31 | 8.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 27 | 7.4 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 26 | 7.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 22 | 6.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 22 | 6.0 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 18 | 4.9 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 16 | 4.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Med spa and aesthetics | 12 | 3.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 10 | 2.7 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 9 | 2.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 8 | 2.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 7 | 1.9 | NPPES [2] |
| ASCs and OBLs | 5 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Audiology and hearing centers | 5 | 1.4 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 4 | 1.1 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 3 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 3 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 3 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Fertility and IVF | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Plastic and cosmetic surgery | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 2 | 0.5 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical research sites | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.3 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 9 | CMS [4] | |
| Ambulatory surgical centers | 3 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 1 | CMS [4] |
A single Fair Lawn practice can hold more than one of these numbers. 35 percent sit in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, counted as clinicians rather than as owners.
What Bergen County credit files already show
39 healthcare approvals averaging $495,990 set the deal shape lenders in Bergen County have already underwritten
| Line | Amount | Reading and source |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare files approved | 39 | Counted for the fiscal year the SBA publishes [5] |
| Dollars behind them | $19,343,600 | Everything approved to healthcare borrowers, added up [5] |
| Typical approval size | $495,990 | The dollar column over the approval column [5] |
| Credit offices operating locally | 598 | Places that write credit locally, NAICS 522 [6] |
What the two tables above change about a file
Density of 172.4 per 10,000 sets the patient draw a projection can claim without an argument. Because Bergen County already carries $19,343,600 across 39 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. Household income of $147,952 in Fair Lawn is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Programs the Fair Lawn mix reaches for
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Working capital term loan
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Equipment financing and leasing
The 33 fields practicing locally set this order. A funding partner, not this list, decides what is available in New Jersey.
The first pages of a Fair Lawn file
physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialty physician groups, general dentistry account for most of what is enumerated in Fair Lawn, 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 (218) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Specialty physician groups (61) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
| General dentistry (44) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
NPPES supplies the Fair Lawn counts. The reading columns describe the field in general, and no partner reviewing a Fair Lawn file is bound by them.
Fair Lawn against nearby New Jersey markets
Comparables travel. These are the New Jersey towns whose density, at 172.4 per 10,000 here, gets weighed beside this one.
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fair Lawn (current) | 36,489 | 629 | 172.4 | |
| Elmwood Park | 21,680 | 124 | 57.2 | 2 |
| Glen Rock | 12,346 | 159 | 128.8 | 2 |
| Hawthorne | 20,006 | 129 | 64.5 | 3 |
| Paramus | 26,786 | 813 | 303.5 | 3 |
| Ridgewood | 26,701 | 359 | 134.5 | 3 |
| Garfield | 33,530 | 97 | 28.9 | 4 |
What the geography does to a Fair Lawn projection
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ lies 21 miles from Fair Lawn, close enough that appraisers price the lease against New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ rents while 36,489 residents set the revenue ceiling. Households here carry $147,952 in median income, and that ceiling decides how much of a treatment plan gets started rather than deferred. Referral flow comes from outside Fair Lawn, which a projection needs to state plainly.
More of New Jersey
Questions from Fair Lawn
01How many providers practice in Fair Lawn, and in what?
629 enumerations sit at Fair Lawn addresses in the monthly NPPES file, working out to 172.4 for every 10,000 residents. 35 percent of them are physical, occupational, and speech therapy, and specialty physician groups follows with 61. An enumeration is a clinician, so the 629 here cover fewer than 629 practices.
02What does a $147,952 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Fair Lawn runs $147,952. 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.
03Which fields carry the volume in Fair Lawn?
Volume concentrates in physical, occupational, and speech therapy, 218 of them, ahead of specialty physician groups at 61, across 33 fields. A thin second field usually means a longer search for staff than a pro forma allows for.
04What does SBA lending look like around Fair Lawn?
The county file behind Fair Lawn holds 39 healthcare approvals totaling $19,343,600, an average of $495,990. Those are the loan sizes lenders in Bergen County have already carried.
05Is Fair Lawn underwritten as part of New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?
New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ sits 21 miles away, close enough that appraisers reach into that market for rent and resale comparables while your patient draw stays local. The comparables read New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ; the 36,489 residents set the ceiling a projection can defend.
06Is there local lending capacity in Bergen County?
County Business Patterns records 598 credit intermediation establishments in Bergen County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Fair Lawn 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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