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Healthcare practice financing in Iowa Colony, Texas
Direct answer
Density decides a lot here. Iowa Colony runs 5.8 providers per 10,000 residents, 10 clinicians against 17,240 people, 30 percent of them in home health, while Brazoria County lenders have approved 11 healthcare files worth $3,462,300 and the nearest metro is 24 miles out.
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- Population: 17,240 residents (10K-25K band)1
- Healthcare providers registered here: 10 across 7 fields2
- Median household income: $126,1673
- Largest provider field: Home health: 3 registered providers2
- Nearest metro: Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, 24 miles1
- SBA healthcare approvals in the county: 11 approvals totaling $3,462,3004
Who is enumerated in Iowa Colony
10 providers across 7 fields, 5.8 per 10,000 residents, counted at Iowa Colony addresses in the NPPES monthly file
| Field | Providers | Per 10,000 residents | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Home health | 3 | 1.7 | NPPES [2] |
| DME and HME suppliers | 2 | 1.2 | NPPES [2] |
| General dentistry | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Non-medical home care | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Hospice and palliative | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Behavioral and mental health group practices | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
| Physical, occupational, and speech therapy | 1 | 0.6 | NPPES [2] |
Home health carries 3 of the 10 enumerated providers here, and several of them can sit inside one practice. Read the column as clinicians, not owners.
The lending record behind Iowa Colony
The published file shows 11 healthcare approvals in Brazoria County, $3,462,300 in total, and that history is what an appraiser and a credit committee reach for
| What it measures | Value | How to read it |
|---|---|---|
| Approvals on record | 11 | Fiscal year published in the SBA file [4] |
| Total approved capital | $3,462,300 | Sum of approvals to healthcare borrowers [4] |
| Mean deal size | $314,755 | Dollars divided by approvals [4] |
| Lenders sited in the county | 181 | Credit intermediation establishments, NAICS 522 [5] |
How this data lands in an underwriting decision
Density of 5.8 per 10,000 sets the patient draw a projection can claim without an argument. Because Brazoria County already carries $3,462,300 across 11 healthcare approvals, a request near that average moves faster than one well above it. Household income of $126,167 in Iowa Colony 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
- Medical receivables factoring
- Working capital term loan
- Practice acquisition
- Equipment financing and leasing
- Healthcare AR line and payroll funding
The order comes from Iowa Colony's own provider mix, which home health dominates at 30 percent. What a partner can actually place in Texas is a separate question.
Underwriting by field in Iowa Colony
home health, dme and hme suppliers, general dentistry account for most of what is enumerated in Iowa Colony, so those are the files funders see from this town
| Field | What the file turns on | The capital event behind most requests |
|---|---|---|
| Home health (3) | Medicare certification first, Payer mix second, Days in accounts receivable third | Payroll between visit and remittance |
| DME and HME suppliers (2) | Accreditation and surety bond status, Rental versus sale revenue split, Denial rate and documentation quality | Inventory and rental fleet |
| General dentistry (1) | Three years of collections history, Hygiene as a share of collections, Overhead ratio and owner add-backs | Acquisition of an established practice |
The first column is Iowa Colony's own NPPES count. The rest is how the field is generally underwritten, whether the address is Iowa Colony or anywhere else.
Iowa Colony against nearby Texas markets
5.8 per 10,000 is the figure a neighboring town gets compared against when an appraiser prices Iowa Colony
| Market | Population | Clinicians | Density per 10,000 | Distance in miles |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa Colony (current) | 17,240 | 10 | 5.8 | |
| Manvel | 19,309 | 110 | 57.0 | 5 |
| Missouri | 78,582 | 2 | 0.3 | 11 |
| Alvin | 29,869 | 168 | 56.2 | 12 |
| Friendswood | 41,291 | 382 | 92.5 | 14 |
| Stafford | 17,555 | 643 | 366.3 | 15 |
| Bellaire | 17,439 | 686 | 393.4 | 18 |
What the geography does to a Iowa Colony projection
24 miles separate Iowa Colony from Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Lease pricing follows Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, while revenue stays capped by the 17,240 residents here. Median household income runs $126,167, which is the number a funder converts into case acceptance on anything elective or cash-pay. With no hospital in town, a projection has to name where referrals and coverage come from.
Other Texas markets
Questions from Iowa Colony
01How many providers practice in Iowa Colony, and in what?
Across 7 fields, Iowa Colony carries 10 enumerated clinicians, 5.8 per 10,000 of the 17,240 people living here. The concentration is in home health, 3 of the total, then dme and hme suppliers at 2. Count practices from that only with care.
02What does a $126,167 median income mean for case acceptance?
Median household income in Iowa Colony runs $126,167. 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.
03What does SBA lending look like around Iowa Colony?
$3,462,300 went to healthcare borrowers in Brazoria County across 11 approvals, $314,755 on average. Deals near Iowa Colony get sized against that record before anything else.
04What does Brazoria County's shortage designation change?
Designated for primary care, dental, mental health, Brazoria 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.
05Is there local lending capacity in Brazoria County?
County Business Patterns records 181 credit intermediation establishments in Brazoria County. That is the local origination bench, and it decides whether a file gets underwritten by somebody who has seen Iowa Colony rents and resale before or by somebody working from a screen.
06Is Iowa Colony underwritten as part of Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX?
Partly. Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX is 24 miles out, so rent and equipment comparables travel in from there while patients still come from the 17,240 residents around Iowa Colony. Cost side metro, revenue side local.
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
- 5U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2022
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