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Physical & Occupational Therapy in Rhode Island

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

1,853
Registered providers
36
Places with providers
42nd
National rank
of 56
2
Licence types

How density varies inside Rhode Island

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 18.6 0 40 providers per 10,000 residents · 8 places in Rhode Island
Distribution across 8 places in Rhode Island.

There are 1,853 licensed therapists registered in Rhode Island. The two most common licence types are physical therapist (1,241) and occupational therapist (479).

Rhode Island ranks 42nd of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.

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.

Providers are registered in 36 distinct places across Rhode Island. The map shows the ZIP codes with the highest counts.

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.

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

04590200820172026
New registrations per year. licensed therapists in Rhode Island. Annual registrations in 2025 were 36% 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

74.9% of registered licensed therapists in Rhode Island 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 Rhode Island. Circle position is the ZIP code centroid, not a street address.

By licence type

Physical Therapist
1,241
67.0%
Occupational Therapist
479
25.8%

Places in Rhode Island

29 of 29 have their own page so far
Place Providers Population Per 10k
Providence 422 195,310 21.6
Warwick 337 84,187 40.0
East Providence 156 48,249 32.3
Cranston 149 84,647 17.6
Pawtucket 143 77,065 18.6
Greenville 101
Newport East 66
Wakefield-Peace Dale 64
Woonsocket 59 44,580 13.2
Westerly 52
Greene 44
Tiverton 38
Narragansett Pier 37
Cumberland Hill 32
Valley Falls 29
Newport 25 24,251 10.3
Melville 24
Kingston 17
Wyoming 12
Carolina 6
Pascoag 5
Charlestown 4
Central Falls 4 23,124 1.7
Hope Valley 3
Clayville 3
Harrisville 2
Chepachet 2
Hopkinton 1
Bradford 1