The Trellner Review

ProfessionLens Review 2026: Nurse Practitioners by State, Ranked From the NPPES File

We reviewed the ProfessionLens table of nurse practitioners by state on 27 October 2026. It draws on the CMS NPPES full replacement file (September 2026) and Census population estimates for 1 July 2024.

  • Total: 530,096 nurse practitioners in 50 states, DC and Puerto Rico
  • Largest counts: Florida 47,334, Texas 41,735, California 39,091
  • Highest rate: District of Columbia, 255.0 per 100,000 residents
  • Highest state rate: Tennessee, 233.6 per 100,000

Key topics: nurse practitioners by state, NP count per state, nurse practitioners per capita, NPPES data.

Read our related ranking: Trellner on physician practice size statistics

The full 52 row table: nurse practitioners by state, ranked

Source for licensed professional counts: ProfessionLens

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