Physical & Occupational Therapy in Vermont
Physical therapists and occupational therapists registered with a practice address in this area, including their board-recognised specialty areas.
How density varies inside Vermont
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.
Vermont has 1,236 licensed therapists with a registered practice address, across 3 licence types.
Vermont ranks 49th of 56 states and territories by the number of registered providers in this field.
The largest single group is physical therapist, at 862 providers or 70% of the total. Licence titles vary between states for what is often similar training and scope, so the mix here partly reflects how Vermont licenses its providers.
Just over half of the licensed therapists here — 75% — 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 Burlington (1,347), South Burlington (366), Brattleboro (346).
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 Vermont got here
new registrations per yearEach registration carries the year it was issued, so the registry doubles as a record of when this workforce grew in Vermont. A rising line means the constraint is easing; a flat one means today's shortage is likely to be next year's too.
Who they are
self-reported to CMS81.7% of registered licensed therapists in Vermont 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 codeBy licence type
Places in Vermont
104 of 104 have their own page so far7 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.