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Physical & Occupational Therapy in Connecticut

Physical therapists and occupational therapists registered with a practice address in this area, including their board-recognised specialty areas.

5,880
Registered providers
165
Places with providers
20th
National rank
of 56
3
Licence types

How density varies inside Connecticut

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.

median 15 0 62 providers per 10,000 residents · 24 places in Connecticut
Distribution across 24 places in Connecticut.

There are 5,880 licensed therapists registered in Connecticut. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (3,590) and occupational therapist (1,699).

Connecticut ranks 20th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 3,590 providers or 61% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Connecticut licenses its providers.

No single licence type dominates here — physical therapist and occupational therapist are within reach of each other. For most common reasons to seek therapy, the distinction between those licences matters less than availability and cost.

Providers are registered in 165 distinct places across Connecticut. The map shows the ZIP codes with the highest counts.

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.

How Connecticut got here

new registrations per year

Each registration carries the year it was issued, so the registry doubles as a record of when this workforce grew in Connecticut. A rising line means the constraint is easing; a flat one means today's shortage is likely to be next year's too.

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New registrations per year. licensed therapists in Connecticut. Annual registrations in 2025 were 15% higher than in 2008. The final bar is faded because 2026 is still in progress. Starts at 2008 on purpose. The NPI system launched in 2006– 2007 and the whole profession registered at once, so those two years are an artefact of the rollout rather than a measure of anything. Including them would make the following year look like a collapse.

Who they are

self-reported to CMS

77.1% of registered licensed therapists in Connecticut 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 code
The highest-count ZIP codes for licensed therapists in Connecticut. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Places in Connecticut

139 of 139 have their own page so far
Place Providers Population Per 10k
Stamford 200 139,535 14.3
Heritage Village 189
Waterbury 188 115,771 16.2
Wallingford Center 166
Newington 163
Sacred Heart University 153
New Britain 148 76,286 19.4
West Hartford 142
Cheshire Village 135
Norwalk 130 94,508 13.8
New Haven 128 138,774 9.2
Bridgeport 125 152,273 8.2
Cannondale 118
Danbury 117 89,033 13.1
Canton Valley 115
Manchester 112
Milford 104 51,215 20.3
Portland 101
Plantsville 99
Glastonbury Center 96
Quinnipiac University 94
Wethersfield 93
Shelton 84 42,880 19.6
Windsor Locks 83
Mill Plain 83
Guilford Center 81
Greenwich 80
Daniels Farm 80
Ridgefield 78
Branford Center 72
Middletown 69 48,439 14.2
Bristol 67 62,341 10.7
Groton 63 10,160 62.0
Torrington 62 35,796 17.3
Hazardville 62
Naugatuck 60 32,230 18.6
Westport Village 58
Rockville 57
Meriden 56 60,810 9.2
Blue Hills 56
Hartford 52 121,981 4.3
Darien Downtown 52
Norwich 51 40,001 12.7
Essex Village 51
Mystic 48
Colchester 48
West Haven 46 55,351
Orange 46
Stratford Downtown 43
New London 42 28,003 15.0
Watertown 41
Brookfield Center 41
Ansonia 39 19,216 20.3
Woodbury Center 38
Waterford 36
North Haven 35
Newtown 35 1,980
New Milford 34
Crystal Lake 34
Cos Cob 32
Bethel 31
Storrs 30
Niantic 29
Terramuggus 28
Old Greenwich 28
Dayville 28
Simsbury Center 27
New Canaan 27
Kensington 27
East Hartford 27
Weatogue 26
South Coventry 25
Madison Center 23
Putnam 21
East Village 20
Baltic 19
Oxoboxo River 18
East Haven 18
Candlewood Knolls 18
Suffield Depot 17
Plainfield Village 17
Old Saybrook Center 17
Oakville 17
Willimantic 16
Westbrook Center 16
Derby 14 12,925 10.8
Canaan 14
Riverside 13
Chester Center 13
Lordship 12
Jewett City 12 3,456 34.7
West Mountain 10
South Windham 10
Sandy Hook 10
Mansfield Center 10
Collinsville 10
Southport 9
Salmon Brook 9
North Granby 9
East Hampton 9
Winsted 8
Sharon 8
Redding Center 8
Gales Ferry 8
Northford 7
Lakeville 7
Stafford Springs 6
Higganum 6
Durham 6
Bantam 6 772 77.7
Tariffville 5
Moodus 5
Litchfield 5 1,220
Coventry Lake 5
Cornwall Bridge 5
Clinton 5
Terryville 4
North Grosvenor Dale 4
Lake Chaffee 4
Weston 3
Thomaston 3
Pawcatuck 3
Lake Bungee 3
Broad Brook 3
Tashua 2
Stonington 2 1,017 19.7
Somers 2
Sherman 2
Quinebaug 2
Northwest Harwinton 2
Norfolk 2
Mechanicsville 2
Lake Pocotopaug 2
Cornwall 2
Brooklyn 2
Pleasant Valley 1
New Preston 1
New Hartford Center 1
Danielson 1 4,265 2.3

3 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.