PPP loans in Santa Barbara County, California
Each amount is what the Small Business Administration approved, as SBA published it, and says nothing more about the borrower. SBA guaranteed 14,013 Paycheck Protection Program loans for businesses it recorded in Santa Barbara County, $1.3 billion in all.
Santa Barbara County, as of September 30, 2024
- $1.3 billion
- Approved
- $1,280,550,080
- 1.2% of the $103.2 billion approved in California.
- 14,013
- Loans
- 9,886 first draws and 4,127 second draws.
- 96.8%
- Forgiven
- 13,559 of 14,013 loans carry a forgiveness amount, $1.3 billion in all.
- 2.0%
- Charged off
- 284 of 14,013 loans, approved for $9.5 million. That is the loans' size, not what SBA lost.
The largest borrowers in Santa Barbara County · 2020–21
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How the list is drawn
- 100 of the 13,502 borrowers ranked in Santa Barbara 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.
- A borrower is ranked here when SBA recorded its first loan in Santa Barbara 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