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SBA lender · 7(a) program

Peoples National Bank

Peoples National Bank has approved 304 SBA loans worth $108.4M since FY2010. Everything below comes from the SBA’s own loan-level records.

National rank

#515

0.02% of all SBA dollars

Total approved

$108.4M

FY2010 onward

Loans

304

Median loan

$177,500

-1% vs national

Median rate

5.75%

-1.00 pts vs national

Charge-off rate

7.7%

182 resolved FY10-19 loans

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.

Reading the record

What Peoples National Bank’s numbers say

Peoples National Bank sits in the long tail of the SBA lending field, having approved 304 loans for a gross total of $108.4M since fiscal 2010. Its median loan of $177,500 is close to the $180,000 national median.

The median initial note rate across its 7(a) approvals is 5.75%, 1.00 points below the national median of 6.75%. Rate medians drawn across fifteen years reflect the mix of loan sizes and vintages a lender wrote as much as its pricing posture - a lender that grew fastest during a high-rate stretch will look expensive here even if its spread was ordinary.

Of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status, 7.7% were charged off, right at the national figure. Read that as a description of the credit box a lender chose, not as a verdict on it: lenders serving newer businesses and thinner files will always show higher losses than those writing large, collateralised acquisition loans.

Roughly 36% of its approvals with a recorded business age went to startups or businesses two years old or less, against 27% nationally - a meaningfully greater appetite for startups than the average SBA lender.

Where Peoples National Bank lends

What it lends against

Franchise brands Peoples National Bank financed

Franchise brandLoansApprovedShare
Sports Clips3$630K
Anytime Fitness2$185K
Firehouse Subs2$790K
Carquest Auto Parts2$270K
F45 Training2$611K
Dairy Queen1$400K
Little Caesars1$205K
Domino's Pizza1$415K

Brands with the most Peoples National Bank SBA loans, among brands with at least 10 loans in the file. Compare lenders across all franchise lending on SBA lenders for franchises.

Peoples National Bank made 150 of these loans under the SBA Express programme, median $100,000. Compare SBA Express lenders.

Source: U.S. Small Business Administration, SBA 7(a) and 504 FOIA data, as of 2026-06-30. Approvals from FY2010 onward. How we calculate this.

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Questions about Peoples National Bank

How many SBA loans has Peoples National Bank approved?
Peoples National Bank has approved 304 SBA loans totalling $108,369,100 in gross approvals from fiscal year 2010 through the most recent SBA data release. That places it outside the top 500 among all SBA lenders by dollars approved.
What is the typical Peoples National Bank SBA loan size?
The median gross approval is $177,500, with the middle 80% of loans falling between $35,000 and $650,000. The national median across all SBA lenders is $180,000.
What interest rate does Peoples National Bank charge on SBA 7(a) loans?
The median initial note rate on Peoples National Bank's 7(a) approvals is 5.75%, compared with a national median of 6.75%. This is a historical median across all approvals since FY2010, not a quote - SBA 7(a) rates are pegged to a base rate that moves, and your rate depends on loan size, term, and credit profile.
What is Peoples National Bank's SBA loan charge-off rate?
7.7% of its FY2010-FY2019 approvals that have reached a terminal status were charged off, against a national figure of 7.6%. A charge-off rate reflects the borrowers a lender chose to underwrite as much as anything else, and is not a measure of service quality.

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