Physical & Occupational Therapy in Boston, MA

There are 1,174 licensed therapists registered in Boston. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (852) and occupational therapist (218).

Among the 53 places in Massachusetts big enough for the comparison to hold — at least a thousand residents, and a resident population that matches who is registered there — Boston ranks 31st 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.

Boston is the 1st largest concentration in Massachusetts by number of providers, accounting for 9.2% of the state total.

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 Massachusetts licenses its providers than about what is available to you.

Registered addresses are spread across 32 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.