Physical & Occupational Therapy in Alaska
Physical therapists and occupational therapists registered with a practice address in this area, including their board-recognised specialty areas.
How density varies inside Alaska
Each bar is the number of places at that level of provider density. A long right tail means a few places carry far more providers per resident than the rest of the state.
Alaska has 1,344 licensed therapists with a registered practice address, across 4 licence types.
Alaska ranks 43rd of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.
By licence type the breakdown is physical therapist (847), occupational therapist (335), pediatric occupational therapist (60), orthopedic physical therapist (40), with 0 further types making up the remainder.
Just over half of the licensed therapists here — 66% — hold the same licence, physical therapist. Where one type dominates like this, the practical question is less which letters someone has than whether they work with what you are bringing to them.
The three largest concentrations are Anchorage (2,723), Coldfoot (718), Wasilla (626).
One caveat on reading these numbers: the registry records where a provider registered an address, not where they see clients day to day, and addresses are not always kept current. It also says nothing about whether someone is taking new clients.
How Alaska got here
new registrations per yearEach registration carries the year it was issued, so the registry doubles as a record of when this workforce grew in Alaska. A rising line means the constraint is easing; a flat one means today's shortage is likely to be next year's too.
Who they are
self-reported to CMS74.8% of registered licensed therapists in Alaska are women. Nationally the figure varies a great deal by licence type — occupational therapy at one end, psychiatry at the other. See the national breakdown.
You can filter any city list on this site by gender. We show it because it is one of the most common things people search for and, for some kinds of work, a real need — but it is only ever a filter here, never a ranking.
Where they are registered
circle size = providers in that ZIP codeBy licence type
Places in Alaska
42 of 42 have their own page so far| Place | Providers | Population | Per 10k |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anchorage | 533 | 287,155 | 18.6 |
| Wasilla | 158 | 10,556 | |
| Fairbanks | 76 | 31,468 | 24.2 |
| Crooked Creek | 74 | ||
| Palmer | 61 | 6,710 | 90.9 |
| Coldfoot | 61 | ||
| Soldotna | 57 | 4,615 | 123.5 |
| Juneau city and | 54 | 31,609 | 17.1 |
| Sitka city and | 32 | 8,319 | |
| Kenai | 32 | 7,924 | |
| Knik River | 28 | ||
| Homer | 23 | 6,331 | 36.3 |
| Point MacKenzie | 22 | ||
| Ketchikan | 19 | 7,939 | |
| North Pole | 16 | 2,477 | 64.6 |
| Kodiak | 15 | 5,281 | 28.4 |
| Bethel | 11 | 6,626 | |
| Nome | 8 | 3,653 | |
| Gustavus | 8 | 610 | |
| Seward | 7 | 2,892 | 24.2 |
| Utqiaġvik | 6 | 4,640 | 12.9 |
| Pleasant Valley | 5 | ||
| Eielson AFB | 5 | ||
| Petersburg | 4 | ||
| Kiana | 4 | 408 | |
| Tatitlek | 3 | ||
| Sterling | 3 | ||
| Wrangell city and | 2 | 2,007 | |
| Valdez | 2 | 3,681 | 5.4 |
| Unalaska | 2 | 4,306 | 4.6 |
| Metlakatla | 2 | ||
| Anchor Point | 2 | ||
| Willow | 1 | ||
| Skagway | 1 | ||
| Ninilchik | 1 | ||
| Klawock | 1 | 720 | 13.9 |
| Igiugig | 1 | ||
| Healy | 1 | ||
| Dry Creek | 1 | ||
| Dillingham | 1 | 2,075 | |
| Denali Park | 1 | ||
| Craig | 1 | 1,062 |
11 places have no per-resident figure. Those are office districts inside a larger urban area, rural towns whose practices serve a whole region, or places where most registrations share one employer's address — dividing by the resident population there produces a number that looks precise and describes nothing. The provider counts are unaffected; the test is described in the methodology.