New Jersey micro-market
Healthcare practice financing in South Plainfield, New Jersey
Direct answer
25,062 residents, 227 enumerated clinicians, 90.6 per 10,000, 21 percent of them in physical, occupational, and speech therapy: that is the South Plainfield market a funder prices. Middlesex County adds 10 healthcare approvals worth $5,536,100 and 26 miles of distance to New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ.
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- Population: 25,062 residents (25K-50K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 227 across 28 fields2
- Median household income: $126,0633
- Largest provider field: Physical, occupational, and speech therapy: 48 registered providers2
- Medicare-certified providers in town: 2 across 1 categories4
- Nearest metro: New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ, 26 miles1
The clinical base a lender can verify here
The NPPES file puts 227 enumerated clinicians inside South Plainfield, spread over 28 fields at 90.6 per 10,000 residents
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 48 | 19.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Specialty physician groups | 27 | 10.8 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 23 | 9.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Optometry and ophthalmology | 20 | 8.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Chiropractic | 15 | 6.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Independent pharmacy | 13 | 5.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Home health | 10 | 4.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Primary care and family medicine | 10 | 4.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Dental specialties | 9 | 3.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 7 | 2.8 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 6 | 2.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 5 | 2.0 | NPPES [2] |
| Podiatry | 4 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| ABA and autism therapy | 4 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Clinical and toxicology labs | 4 | 1.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Urgent care | 3 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Occupational health and drug testing | 3 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| Dermatology | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Ketamine, TMS, and interventional psychiatry | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Dialysis and infusion centers | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| Skilled nursing, assisted living, and memory care | 2 | 0.8 | NPPES [2] |
| SUD treatment and residential | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Imaging centers | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Pain management and interventional | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| NEMT and ambulance | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Hormone, TRT, and men's health clinics | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Telehealth and virtual clinics | 1 | 0.4 | NPPES [2] |
| Medical equipment suppliers | 9 | CMS [4] | |
| Dialysis facilities | 2 | CMS [4] |
Physical, occupational, and speech therapy carries 48 of the 227 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
Middlesex County approvals, dollars, and lending establishments
Lenders in Middlesex County have already closed 10 healthcare approvals, averaging $553,610, which is the size a new file gets read beside
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 10 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [5] |
| Total approved capital | $5,536,100 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [5] |
| Mean deal size | $553,610 | Dollars divided by approvals [5] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 381 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [6] |
The consequence of these numbers
The ratio that matters up front is 90.6 per 10,000, which decides whether a ramp schedule reads as conservative. A request measured against 10 prior Middlesex County approvals is priced on precedent, which shortens the questions about valuation. Household income of $126,063 in South Plainfield is the number a lender uses to sanity check the self-pay share of a revenue projection.
Where a file from this town usually lands
- Practice acquisition
- Startup and de novo
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Expansion, relocation, and build-out
- Working capital term loan
The order comes from South Plainfield's own provider mix, which physical, occupational, and speech therapy dominates at 21 percent. What a partner can actually place in New Jersey is a separate question.
What a funder reads first in South Plainfield
Drawn from the fields that actually practice here: physical, occupational, and speech therapy, specialty physician groups, general dentistry
| Practice type | The pages that decide it | Typical capital event |
|---|---|---|
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy (48) | Visits per case, Referral source concentration, Payer mix and authorization rules | Startup or expansion clinic |
| Specialty physician groups (27) | Ancillary revenue contribution, Provider productivity, Payer contracts | Ancillary build-out |
| 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 |
Column one counts South Plainfield clinicians from the federal file. Columns two and three describe how the field is usually underwritten, and a partner can read a South Plainfield file differently.
South Plainfield against nearby New Jersey markets
Density is the number that moves an appraisal: 90.6 per 10,000 here
| Town | Residents | Providers | Per 10,000 | Miles away |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| South Plainfield (current) | 25,062 | 227 | 90.6 | |
| North Plainfield | 23,072 | 66 | 28.6 | 3 |
| Plainfield | 56,507 | 143 | 25.3 | 3 |
| Metuchen | 15,470 | 214 | 138.3 | 4 |
| Middlesex | 14,874 | 73 | 49.1 | 4 |
| Highland Park | 15,386 | 192 | 124.8 | 5 |
| Bound Brook | 12,643 | 94 | 74.3 | 6 |
What the geography does to a South Plainfield projection
26 miles separate South Plainfield from New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Rent comparables cross that gap; patients mostly do not. At $126,063 median household income, the elective and cash-pay share of a projection is the line that gets tested first. No hospital operates here, so the referral sources and the call arrangement have to be named rather than assumed. Higher education here explains why summer looks unlike the rest of the year.
Nearby New Jersey towns
- North Plainfield 23,072 residents
- Plainfield 56,507 residents
- Metuchen 15,470 residents
- Middlesex 14,874 residents
- Highland Park 15,386 residents
- Bound Brook 12,643 residents
South Plainfield owners, answered
01How many providers practice in South Plainfield, and in what?
NPPES lists 227 providers at a South Plainfield practice address, 90.6 per 10,000 residents across 28 tracked fields. Physical, occupational, and speech therapy accounts for 48 of them, 21 percent of the total, with specialty physician groups next at 27. Read that as clinicians: 227 enumerations, not 227 owners.
02What does Middlesex County's shortage designation change?
The primary care, dental, mental health designation HRSA carries on Middlesex County is a recruiting instrument: it puts repayment incentives in front of candidates, which is how a hiring plan for 25,062 residents gets past the question of who would take the job.
03Is South Plainfield underwritten as part of New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ?
Partly. New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ is 26 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 25,062 residents around South Plainfield. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
04Is there local lending capacity in Middlesex County?
County Business Patterns records 381 credit intermediation establishments in Middlesex County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen South Plainfield rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
05What does a $126,063 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in South Plainfield runs $126,063. 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 South Plainfield?
Healthcare borrowers in Middlesex County took 10 approvals worth $5,536,100 in the published fiscal year, averaging $553,610. That is the comparable set an appraiser near South Plainfield 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
- 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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