Columbia, SC — PPP Loan Data

Columbia, South Carolina received 15,419 Paycheck Protection Program loans totaling $818.8M. The average loan in the city was $53,105 — above the national program average of approximately $67,000.

88.6% of loans in Columbia — totaling $781.2M — received SBA forgiveness. Forgiveness required borrowers to demonstrate that funds were used for qualifying expenses and that they maintained employee headcount and compensation levels during the covered period.

Among the largest disclosed recipients in Columbia were MCANGUS GOUDELOCK COURIE, LLC ($8,644,600), NEXSEN PRUET LLC ($7,904,062), and BONITZ, INC. ($7,453,549).

The most active industry sector in Columbia was Personal Care Services with 2,005 loans worth $30.1M, followed by Services to Buildings and Dwellings (802 loans).

Applicants in Columbia reported retaining 96,252 jobs through the program. These figures are self-reported and were not independently verified by the SBA. The majority of loans in this city — those under $150,000 — have borrower names withheld under FOIA Exemption 6.

Columbia is part of South Carolina, which received a total of thousands of PPP loans during the program period. City-level data is based on the borrower's self-reported city name; some variation in spelling may cause minor undercounting. See the methodology page for more detail on data limitations.