PPP loans in Mercer County, Illinois
Each amount is what the Small Business Administration approved, as SBA published it, and says nothing more about the borrower. SBA guaranteed 931 Paycheck Protection Program loans for businesses it recorded in Mercer County, $24.9 million in all.
Mercer County, as of September 30, 2024
- $24.9 million
- Approved
- $24,930,366
- 0.1% of the $37.3 billion approved in Illinois.
- 931
- Loans
- 706 first draws and 225 second draws.
- 99.0%
- Forgiven
- 922 of 931 loans carry a forgiveness amount, $25.0 million in all.
- 0.6%
- Charged off
- 6 of 931 loans, approved for $100.5 thousand. That is the loans' size, not what SBA lost.
The largest borrowers in Mercer County · 2020–21
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How the list is drawn
- 106 of the 841 borrowers ranked in Mercer County are listed: every one ranked in the top 100, with ties. Borrowers approved the same amount share a rank, so the list can be longer than 100. The last rank here is shared by 19 borrowers.
- A borrower is ranked here when SBA recorded its first loan in Mercer County. Its amount is summed over every loan it was approved, a first draw, a second or both, and is not what was forgiven or repaid, which each borrower’s page shows loan by loan.
Related
Sources
- SBA Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) FOIA — loan-level data — U.S. Small Business Administration · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
- Census Bureau county population estimates — U.S. Census Bureau · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 23, 2026
Data retrieved