Eye Care Practices in the United States — the numbers

We maintain 36,124 eye care practices across the country. Below is what that looks like by state: raw count, count per 100,000 residents, and how complete the listings are. Updated November 2026.

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Density: eye care practices per 100,000 residents

Population is the 2020 Census count. Density says more than a raw count: Kansas has 14 per 100,000 — 2.1× the rate of New Mexico.

State	Eye Care Practices	Per 100k	With a website	With a phone
Alabama	528	10.5	72%	99%
Alaska	71	9.7	77%	99%
Arizona	681	9.5	83%	98%
Arkansas	321	10.7	77%	99%
California	4071	10.3	73%	98%
Colorado	653	11.3	82%	99%
Connecticut	468	13	77%	99%
Delaware	94	9.5	82%	99%
Florida	2574	12	75%	99%
Georgia	989	9.2	76%	98%
Hawaii	145	10	72%	99%
Idaho	216	11.7	80%	100%
Illinois	1489	11.6	78%	98%
Indiana	786	11.6	79%	99%
Iowa	367	11.5	77%	99%
Kansas	412	14	76%	100%
Kentucky	461	10.2	73%	99%
Louisiana	404	8.7	73%	98%
Maine	146	10.7	79%	100%
Maryland	651	10.5	79%	98%
Massachusetts	713	10.1	73%	98%
Michigan	1139	11.3	82%	98%
Minnesota	618	10.8	80%	98%
Mississippi	311	10.5	70%	99%
Missouri	664	10.8	83%	98%
Montana	114	10.5	73%	99%
Nebraska	245	12.5	87%	98%
Nevada	325	10.5	72%	99%
New Hampshire	143	10.4	79%	98%
New Jersey	1110	11.9	77%	99%
New Mexico	145	6.8	73%	99%
New York	2350	11.6	72%	99%
North Carolina	967	9.3	79%	99%
North Dakota	104	13.4	88%	100%
Ohio	1341	11.4	76%	99%
Oklahoma	440	11.1	73%	99%
Oregon	435	10.3	82%	96%
Pennsylvania	1605	12.3	78%	99%
Rhode Island	121	11	83%	99%
South Carolina	538	10.5	77%	99%
South Dakota	118	13.3	81%	99%
Tennessee	735	10.6	76%	100%
Texas	3330	11.4	78%	99%
Utah	307	9.4	81%	99%
Vermont	56	8.7	66%	100%
Virginia	963	11.2	78%	99%
Washington	780	10.1	83%	99%
Washington DC	52	7.5	71%	100%
West Virginia	195	10.9	59%	97%
Wisconsin	552	9.4	84%	97%
Wyoming	81	14	83%	100%

Cities with the most eye care practices

City	State	Eye Care Practices
New York	New York	571
Houston	Texas	400
Chicago	Illinois	296
Los Angeles	California	246
San Antonio	Texas	232
Brooklyn	New York	185
Las Vegas	Nevada	173
Dallas	Texas	162
Miami	Florida	153
Austin	Texas	150
Philadelphia	Pennsylvania	148
San Diego	California	145
Phoenix	Arizona	133
Jacksonville	Florida	120
San Francisco	California	118
Columbus	Ohio	111
San Jose	California	109
Orlando	Florida	104
Fort Worth	Texas	104
Cincinnati	Ohio	96
Seattle	Washington	96
Indianapolis	Indiana	93
Atlanta	Georgia	92
Tucson	Arizona	91
Tampa	Florida	91

How this is built

Locations come from Overture Maps (open data), filtered to eye care practices in the US and cleaned: duplicates merged, dead entries dropped, phone numbers normalized. Websites, opening hours and amenities are checked against each business's own site. We keep monthly snapshots, so the counts above are a point in time, not a running total — ask if you need an earlier one.