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Physical & Occupational Therapy in Kansas

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

4,230
Registered providers
281
Places with providers
32nd
National rank
of 56
3
Licence types

How density varies inside Kansas

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 9.4 0 32.4 providers per 10,000 residents · 242 places in Kansas
Distribution across 242 places in Kansas.

Kansas has 4,230 licensed therapists with a registered practice address, across 3 licence types.

Kansas ranks 32nd of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 2,706 providers or 64% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Kansas licenses its providers.

Just over half of the licensed therapists here — 68% — 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 Wichita (3,013), Overland Park (1,786), Topeka (1,350).

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 Kansas 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 Kansas. A rising line means the constraint is easing; a flat one means today's shortage is likely to be next year's too.

0105210200820172026
New registrations per year. licensed therapists in Kansas. Annual registrations in 2025 were 30% 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

75.7% of registered licensed therapists in Kansas 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 Kansas. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Physical Therapist
2,706
64.0%
Occupational Therapist
1,202
28.4%
Pediatric Occupational Therapist
90
2.1%

Places in Kansas

193 of 193 have their own page so far
Place Providers Population Per 10k
Wichita 674 400,987 16.8
Overland Park 660 203,677 32.4
Topeka 313 125,795 24.9
Lawrence 179 96,367 18.6
Olathe 174 150,025 11.6
Leawood 166 34,093 48.7
Kansas City 160 157,805 10.1
Merriam 154 11,509 133.8
Lenexa 131 60,506 21.7
Prairie Village 113 23,008 49.1
Manhattan 104 54,673 19.0
Shawnee 78 69,848 11.2
Salina 72 46,094 15.6
Derby 57 26,606 21.4
Newton 55 18,353
Leavenworth 50 37,012 13.5
Hutchinson 46 39,595 11.6
Fort Riley 45
Lansing 39 11,331 34.4
Junction City 35 22,583 15.5
Garden City 33 27,402 12.0
Pittsburg 30 20,569 14.6
Emporia 30 24,137
Great Bend 29 14,266 20.3
Mission 27 10,125
McPherson 26 13,918 18.7
Hiawatha 26 3,124
Hays 24 21,258 11.3
Andover 24 17,370 13.8
Gardner 22 26,154 8.4
Chanute 21 8,584 24.5
Ottawa 20 12,716
Goddard 19 6,638 28.6
Dodge City 19 27,653 6.9
Atchison 18 10,789 16.7
Galena 15 2,788 53.8
Augusta 15 9,073 16.5
Haysville 14 11,353 12.3
Eudora 12 6,506 18.4
El Dorado 12 12,696 9.5
Baldwin City 11 4,946 22.2
Roeland Park 10 6,683 15.0
Osawatomie 10 4,215 23.7
Fort Scott 10 7,500 13.3
Basehor 10 8,249
Onaga 9 683 131.8
Winfield 8 11,745 6.8
Paola 8 5,880 13.6
Marion 8 1,897 42.2
Louisburg 8 5,299 15.1
Colby 8 5,489 14.6
Bonner Springs 8 7,962 10.0
Bel Aire 8 10,287 7.8
Wamego 7 4,912 14.3
Scott City 7 3,855 18.2
Pratt 7 6,574 10.6
Moundridge 7 1,939 36.1
Liberal 7 19,010 3.7
Independence 7 8,193
Wellington 6 7,541 8.0
Parsons 6 9,315 6.4
Osage City 6 2,784 21.6
Mulvane 6 7,030 8.5
Larned 6 3,596 16.7
Concordia 6 4,991 12.0
Burlington 6 2,640 22.7
Westmoreland 5 747 66.9
Phillipsburg 5 2,225 22.5
Norton 5 2,651 18.9
Neodesha 5 2,188 22.9
Lindsborg 5 3,824 13.1
Iola 5 5,240 9.5
Holton 5 3,396 14.7
Hesston 5 3,458 14.5
Ellis 5 1,917 26.1
Downs 5 759 65.9
Beloit 5 3,288 15.2
Abilene 5 6,552 7.6
Westwood 4 1,720 23.3
Tonganoxie 4 6,208 6.4
Spring Hill 4 10,777 3.7
Seneca 4 2,139 18.7
St. Francis 4 1,265 31.6
North Newton 4 1,791 22.3
Lyons 4 3,488 11.5
Hillsboro 4 2,646 15.1
Garnett 4 3,242 12.3
Eureka 4 2,239 17.9
Coffeyville 4 8,460 4.7
Clearwater 4 2,792 14.3
Clay Center 4 4,061 9.8
Arkansas City 4 11,800 3.4
Wathena 3 1,273 23.6
Tecumseh 3
Sterling 3 2,303 13.0
Sedgwick 3 1,575 19.0
St. Marys 3 2,790 10.8
Sabetha 3 2,474 12.1
Russell 3 4,286 7.0
Plainville 3 1,657 18.1
Minneapolis 3 1,907 15.7
Marysville 3 3,385 8.9
McConnell AFB 3
Linn 3 386
Leonardville 3 442
Goodland 3 4,366 6.9
Fairway 3 4,181 7.2
Belleville 3 1,986 15.1
Yates Center 2 1,308 15.3
Wilson 2 826 24.2
Washington 2 1,063 18.8
Ulysses 2 5,524 3.6
Stockton 2 1,400 14.3
Smith Center 2 1,575 12.7
Satanta 2 1,046 19.1
St. Paul 2 626
St. John 2 1,200 16.7
Rossville 2 1,088 18.4
Park City 2 9,458 2.1
Osborne 2 1,249 16.0
Netawaka 2 139
Lincoln Center 2 1,136 17.6
Lakin 2 2,154 9.3
Kiowa 2 870 23.0
Kingman 2 2,884 6.9
Inman 2 1,309 15.3
Humboldt 2 1,807 11.1
Hugoton 2 3,545 5.6
Horton 2 1,460 13.7
Holcomb 2 2,190 9.1
Halstead 2 2,132 9.4
Girard 2 2,476 8.1
Frontenac 2 3,443 5.8
Elkhart 2 1,722 11.6
Edwardsville 2 4,748 4.2
De Soto 2 7,083 2.8
Columbus 2 2,866 7.0
Cherryvale 2 2,093 9.6
Cheney 2 2,178 9.2
Ashland 2 744 26.9
Anthony 2 2,034 9.8
Winchester 1 440 22.7
Whitewater 1 650 15.4
Wellsville 1 2,002 5.0
Wakefield 1 835 12.0
Victoria 1 1,134 8.8
Valley Center 1 7,685 1.3
South Hutchinson 1 2,516 4.0
Smolan 1 158 63.3
Sedan 1 976 10.2
Redfield 1 97 103.1
Quinter 1 912 11.0
Pleasanton 1 1,186 8.4
Perry 1 848 11.8
Overbrook 1 985 10.2
Oskaloosa 1 1,060 9.4
Mount Hope 1 803 12.5
Mission Hills 1 3,522 2.8
Marienthal 1
Mankato 1 803 12.5
Maize 1 7,853 1.3
Levant 1
Lebo 1 918 10.9
Lebanon 1 183
La Crosse 1 1,225 8.2
Kinsley 1 1,312 7.6
Kechi 1 2,375 4.2
Hudson 1 93
Hoxie 1 1,188 8.4
Horace 1 93
Herington 1 2,101 4.8
Haven 1 1,169 8.6
Harper 1 1,287 7.8
Grenola 1 151
Greenleaf 1 354 28.2
Goessel 1 558 17.9
Ellsworth 1 3,092 3.2
Ellinwood 1 1,969 5.1
Cottonwood Falls 1 860 11.6
Colwich 1 1,445 6.9
Clyde 1 675 14.8
Cimarron 1 1,935 5.2
Centralia 1 485 20.6
Carbondale 1 1,296 7.7
Caney 1 1,704 5.9
Caldwell 1 1,000 10.0
Buhler 1 1,320 7.6
Blue Rapids 1 909 11.0
Benton 1 939 10.6
Belle Plaine 1 1,442 6.9
Baxter Springs 1 3,823 2.6
Andale 1 926 10.8
Altamont 1 1,053 9.5

15 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.