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Physical & Occupational Therapy in Idaho

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

2,646
Registered providers
139
Places with providers
39th
National rank
of 56
4
Licence types

How density varies inside Idaho

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 9.8 0 44.8 providers per 10,000 residents · 115 places in Idaho
Distribution across 115 places in Idaho.

There are 2,646 licensed therapists registered in Idaho. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (1,776) and occupational therapist (581).

Idaho ranks 39th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 1,776 providers or 67% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Idaho 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 Idaho licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

Providers are registered in 139 distinct places across Idaho. 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 Idaho 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 Idaho. 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 Idaho. Annual registrations in 2025 were 2% lower 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

58.8% of registered licensed therapists in Idaho 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 Idaho. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Physical Therapist
1,776
67.1%
Occupational Therapist
581
22.0%
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
127
4.8%
Orthopedic Physical Therapist
69
2.6%

Places in Idaho

86 of 86 have their own page so far
Place Providers Population Per 10k
Boise City 387 238,429 16.2
Meridian 248 142,988 17.3
Twin Falls 198 56,216 35.2
Idaho Falls 161 71,785 22.4
Pocatello 158 58,771 26.9
Garden City 158 13,047
Nampa 146 120,384 12.1
Fernan Lake Village 111 163
Robie Creek 97
Eagle 74 34,658 21.4
Post Falls 70 46,715 15.0
Dalton Gardens 59 2,496
Rexburg 58 40,334 14.4
Lewiston 51 34,717 14.7
Sandpoint 50 10,645 47.0
Caldwell 36 76,629 4.7
Moscow 35 26,721 13.1
Hayden 33 17,363 19.0
Chubbuck 31 16,823 18.4
Blackfoot 30 13,361 22.5
Driggs 28 2,403 116.5
Burley 25 12,409 20.1
Ammon 21 20,119
Mountain Home 20 16,779 11.9
Ketchum 19 3,643 52.2
Hailey 17 10,053 16.9
Emmett 17 8,900 19.1
Rigby 16 5,757 27.8
Fruitland 15 7,213 20.8
McCall 14 4,133 33.9
Stanley 13 124
Shelley 13 5,303 24.5
Rathdrum 13 13,227 9.8
Kuna 12 31,525 3.8
Star 11 20,874 5.3
Salmon 11 3,286 33.5
St. Maries 11 2,457 44.8
Hidden Springs 11
Gooding 11 3,855 28.5
Ponderay 10 2,024 49.4
Kimberly 9 5,798 15.5
Weiser 8 6,249 12.8
Rupert 8 6,460 12.4
Kellogg 8 2,456 32.6
Middleton 7 12,600 5.6
Jerome 7 13,731 5.1
Orofino 6 3,259 18.4
Mountain Home AFB 6
Homedale 6 3,138 19.1
Yellow Pine 5
Victor 5 2,589 19.3
Montpelier 5 2,710 18.5
Grangeville 5 3,621 13.8
Cottonwood 5 921 54.3
Bonners Ferry 5 2,797 17.9
Soda Springs 4 3,165 12.6
Preston 4 6,177 6.5
Spirit Lake 3 2,485 12.1
Plummer 3 1,130 26.5
Ashton 3 977 30.7
Wendell 2 3,090 6.5
Shoshone 2 1,767 11.3
Parker 2 289
Horseshoe Bend 2 816 24.5
Hauser 2 915 21.9
Filer 2 3,026 6.6
Challis 2 959 20.9
Buhl 2 4,801 4.2
American Falls 2 4,785 4.2
Smelterville 1 813 12.3
Silverton 1
Ririe 1 711 14.1
Priest River 1 1,851 5.4
Potlatch 1 797 12.5
Malad City 1 2,338 4.3
Kootenai 1 1,091 9.2
Juliaetta 1 644 15.5
Iona 1 3,179 3.1
Hope 1 108
Hayden Lake 1 668 15.0
Hansen 1 1,109 9.0
Garden Valley 1
Firth 1 545 18.3
Dietrich 1 313 31.9
Council 1 985 10.2
Athol 1 738 13.6

7 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.