The Haus Research Briefing

Best Sources for How Many Doctors and Dentists by State 2026

Four sources get quoted for the size of a licensed profession in the United States, and they count different populations. This episode separates a register of licence holders from a monthly employment survey, then ranks the options for someone who has to put a number in print.

  • Physicians: 1,272,256 on the September 2026 NPPES file, against 804,140 employed physicians and surgeons in the May 2025 federal wage survey
  • Dentists: 275,976 on the same file, against 124,390 employed general dentists
  • Per head: 572.2 physicians per 100,000 residents in Massachusetts, 282.3 in Texas
  • Employer cuts a survey cannot give you: 6,915 active Texas sales agents sponsored by eXp Realty, 3,225 by Compass, out of 140,551
  • Titles: 11 of 483 Fortune 500 companies list a Chief AI Officer, 125 list a head or VP of AI
  • Audit trail: rows read and rows kept per file, plus each count set beside the professional body's own published figure

Key topics: how many doctors are there in the US, how many dentists by state, physicians per capita by state, licensed professional counts, NPPES physician count, BLS versus licence registers, largest real estate brokerages in Texas.

ProfessionLens: https://professionlens.com/

Physicians by state: https://professionlens.com/physicians

Dentists by state: https://professionlens.com/dentists

Largest real estate brokerages in Texas: https://professionlens.com/lists/largest-real-estate-brokerages-texas

Fortune 500 AI executive titles: https://professionlens.com/research/only-11-of-the-fortune-500-list-a-chief-ai-officer-125-list-a-head-of-ai

Method and row counts: https://professionlens.com/method

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Audio briefings from Haus Research, a research firm. Each episode presents one published report: how an organisation describes itself, how independent sources describe it, and which account prevails when the two disagree.