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Therapy Index US · federal registry

Physical & Occupational Therapy in Nevada

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

3,000
Registered providers
68
Places with providers
30th
National rank
of 56
3
Licence types

How density varies inside Nevada

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 12.4 0 63.6 providers per 10,000 residents · 17 places in Nevada
Distribution across 17 places in Nevada.

Nevada has 3,000 licensed therapists with a registered practice address, across 3 licence types.

Nevada ranks 30th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 1,902 providers or 63% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Nevada 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 Las Vegas (10,466), Reno (2,886), North Las Vegas (1,693).

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

092184200820172026
New registrations per year. licensed therapists in Nevada. Annual registrations in 2025 were 55% 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

62% of registered licensed therapists in Nevada 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 Nevada. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Places in Nevada

38 of 38 have their own page so far
Place Providers Population Per 10k
Las Vegas 1,522 679,817 22.4
Henderson 481 353,289 13.6
Reno 395 283,621 13.9
North Las Vegas 156 296,653 5.3
Sparks 87 111,902 7.8
Glenbrook 43
Elko 35 21,019 16.7
Mesquite 32 24,001 13.3
Nellis AFB 31
Silver City 26
Pahrump 23
Gardnerville 22
Minden 18
Winnemucca 17 8,307 20.5
Gabbs 15
Boulder City 14 14,884
Fernley 12 26,214 4.6
Carson 11 58,571 1.9
Incline Village 8
Indian Hills 7
Caliente 6 943 63.6
Spring Creek 5
Ely 5 3,946 12.7
Yerington 4 3,227 12.4
Dayton 4
Battle Mountain 4
Stateline 3
Washoe Valley 2
Eureka 2
Zephyr Cove 1
Verdi 1
Spanish Springs 1
Silver Springs 1
Moapa Valley 1
Lamoille 1
Hawthorne 1
Genoa 1
Carlin 1 2,011 5.0

1 place has 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.