Physical & Occupational Therapy in Oklahoma

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

3,649

Registered providers

330

Places with providers

26th

National rank

of 56

Licence types

How density varies inside Oklahoma

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.

Distribution across 281 places in Oklahoma.

Oklahoma has 3,649 licensed therapists with a registered practice address, across 3 licence types.

Oklahoma ranks 26th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

The largest single group is physical therapist, at 2,329 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 Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma City (6,666), Tulsa (4,923), Norman (1,336).

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

New registrations per year. licensed therapists in Oklahoma. Annual registrations in 2025 were 8% 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

73.5% of registered licensed therapists in Oklahoma 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 Oklahoma. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Physical Therapist

2,329

63.8%

Occupational Therapist

958

26.3%

Pediatric Occupational Therapist

133

3.6%

Places in Oklahoma

148 of 148 have their own page so far

Place	Providers	Population	Per 10k
Oklahoma City	727	719,849	10.1
Tulsa	640	416,209	15.4
Norman	241	130,943	18.4
Edmond	208	100,479	20.7
Broken Arrow	146	124,991	11.7
Lawton	81	90,503	8.9
Bethany	77	20,315	37.9
Claremore	74	20,681	35.8
Yukon	70	27,615	25.3
Moore	70	63,609	11.0
Shawnee	67	32,474	20.6
Midwest City	67	58,799	11.4
Muskogee	60	36,760	16.3
Owasso	56	43,117	13.0
Bartlesville	56	38,278	14.6
Stillwater	47	50,046	9.4
Enid	42	50,297	8.4
Ada	39	16,660	23.4
Tahlequah	33	17,508	18.8
Durant	33	21,552
Altus	32	18,707	17.1
Ardmore	31	24,956	12.4
McAlester	26	18,044	14.4
Jenks	26	28,175	9.2
Duncan	25	23,238	10.8
Medicine Park	24	497
Newcastle	20	15,198	13.2
Choctaw	20	12,549	15.9
Sand Springs	18	20,397	8.8
Okmulgee	18	11,394	15.8
Harrah	18	7,212	25.0
Woodward	17	11,635	14.6
Ponca City	16	24,225	6.6
Miami	16	12,893	12.4
Grove	15	7,399	20.3
El Reno	15	20,730	7.2
Bixby	15	32,766	4.6
Elk City	14	11,335	12.4
Pryor Creek	13	9,723	13.4
Poteau	13	9,171	14.2
Pauls Valley	13	6,157	21.1
Guthrie	13	12,257	10.6
Chickasha	12	17,313	6.9
Weatherford	11	12,005	9.2
Elgin	11	3,653	30.1
Clinton	11	8,302	13.2
Sapulpa	10	23,695
Kingfisher	10	5,201	19.2
Del City	10	21,138	4.7
Cleveland	10	3,271	30.6
Stroud	9	2,913	30.9
Skiatook	9	8,960	10.0
Purcell	9	7,030	12.8
Guymon	9	12,241	7.4
Bristow	9	4,381	20.5
Vinita	8	5,424	14.7
Talihina	8	938
Marlow	8	4,514	17.7
Madill	8	4,181	19.1
Idabel	8	6,934	11.5
Glenpool	8	14,705	5.4
Davis	8	2,836	28.2
Wagoner	7	8,405	8.3
Collinsville	7	9,956	7.0
Catoosa	7	7,471	9.4
Blanchard	7	10,013	7.0
Sallisaw	6	8,790	6.8
Noble	6	7,748	7.7
Mustang	6	24,571	2.4
Fort Gibson	6	3,814	15.7
Eufaula	6	2,882	20.8
Cushing	6	8,390	7.2
Coweta	6	11,472	5.2
Alva	6	4,880	12.3
Jones	5	3,222	15.5
Atoka	5	2,975
Antlers	5	2,186
Anadarko	5	5,448	9.2
Thomas	4	1,129	35.4
Roland	4	4,146	9.6
Perry	4	4,448	9.0
Mannford	4	3,432	11.7
Jay	4	2,507	16.0
Drumright	4	2,546	15.7
Tishomingo	3	3,123	9.6
Stigler	3	2,749	10.9
Seminole	3	7,393	4.1
Piedmont	3	9,427	3.2
Henryetta	3	5,620	5.3
Frederick	3	3,371	8.9
Fairview	3	2,632	11.4
Welling	2
Waurika	2	1,867	10.7
Valliant	2	798
Tuttle	2	8,708	2.3
The Village	2	9,276	2.2
Tecumseh	2	6,402	3.1
Sulphur	2	4,878	4.1
Stilwell	2	3,892	5.1
Pawnee	2	1,974	10.1
Okemah	2	3,091	6.5
Nichols Hills	2	3,864	5.2
McLoud	2	4,564	4.4
Lindsay	2	2,929	6.8
Keota	2	442	45.2
Chandler	2	2,963	6.7
Wetumka	1	1,133	8.8
Warr Acres	1	10,552	0.9
Vian	1	1,386	7.2
Verden	1	521	19.2
Texola	1	41
Spiro	1	2,230	4.5
Sperry	1	1,241	8.1
Spavinaw	1	366
Snyder	1	1,214	8.2
Sequoyah	1
Sayre	1	4,783	2.1
Rush Springs	1	1,020	9.8
Pawhuska	1	2,923	3.4
Okeene	1	1,047	9.6
Mooreland	1	1,122	8.9
Meeker	1	1,031	9.7
Medford	1	901	11.1
Mangum	1	2,683	3.7
Lake Aluma	1	87	114.9
Inola	1	1,888	5.3
Hooker	1	1,706	5.9
Holdenville	1	5,923	1.7
Hinton	1	4,975	2.0
Haskell	1	1,740	5.7
Goldsby	1	3,591	2.8
Fletcher	1	1,274	7.8
Earlsboro	1	620	16.1
Dill City	1	417
Dewey	1	3,450	2.9
Custer City	1	371	27.0
Coalgate	1	1,735	5.8
Chouteau	1	2,175	4.6
Cherokee	1	1,439	6.9
Chelsea	1	1,999	5.0
Carrier	1	91	109.9
Carney	1	575	17.4
Carnegie	1	1,366	7.3
Broken Bow	1	4,211	2.4
Blackwell	1	6,029	1.7
Binger	1	434	23.0
Beaver	1	1,213	8.2
Adair	1	750	13.3

10 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.