Physical & Occupational Therapy in Santa Monica, CA

There are 288 licensed therapists registered in Santa Monica. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (191) and occupational therapist (36).

Among the 423 places in California big enough for the comparison to hold — at least a thousand residents, and a resident population that matches who is registered there — Santa Monica ranks 12th by providers per resident.

Density is the closest public proxy for how hard it will be to get an appointment, but it is only a proxy. It counts everyone with a registered address here, including people who have retired, moved or stopped taking new clients — nothing forces those records to be updated. Read it as an encouraging upper bound rather than a promise.

Santa Monica is the 29th largest concentration in California by number of providers, accounting for 0.6% of the state total.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 191 providers or 66% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how California licenses its providers.

The mix here is unusually concentrated: physical therapist outnumber the next largest group by more than three to one. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training, so a lopsided mix usually says more about how California licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

Registered addresses are spread across 7 ZIP codes. The map above sizes each ZIP by how many providers are registered there — clustering usually follows medical districts and commercial corridors rather than population.

These counts come from the federal NPI registry. A provider appears here if they hold an active NPI with a practice address in this area — it does not mean they are currently accepting new clients, and the registry does not record insurance, fees or availability.