Physical & Occupational Therapy in Albuquerque, NM

There are 1,138 licensed therapists registered in Albuquerque. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (577) and occupational therapist (421).

That is roughly 6.1 providers per square mile of land area, or 20.4 per 10,000 residents.

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.

Albuquerque is the 1st largest concentration in New Mexico by number of providers, accounting for 41.2% of the state total.

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.

Registered addresses are spread across 20 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.