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Highest mental-health doctors by state

Psychiatrists per 100,000 residents.

MD and DO psychiatrists per 100,000 residents. This is the local specialist supply, not an estimate of therapy appointments, insurance acceptance, wait times, quality of care, or residents’ mental health. It excludes psychologists, counselors and social workers because HRSA’s county file does not publish one comparable all-professions total.

  1. 1District of Columbia50.5
  2. 2Massachusetts30.5
  3. 3New York27.2
  4. 4Vermont26.4
  5. 5Rhode Island25.8
  6. 6Maryland19.6
  7. 7Hawaii17.4
  8. 8California16.4
  9. 9Maine15.9
  10. 10Pennsylvania15.8
  11. 11New Hampshire15.6
  12. 12New Jersey14.9
  13. 13Oregon13.5
  14. 14Illinois13.0
  15. 15Virginia12.8
  16. 16New Mexico12.7
  17. 17Colorado12.6
  18. 18Michigan12.5
  19. 19West Virginia12.5
  20. 20North Carolina12.4
  21. 21Louisiana12.3
  22. 22North Dakota12.3
  23. 23Missouri12.1
  24. 24Delaware11.9
  25. 25South Dakota11.9
  26. 26Minnesota11.8
  27. 27Washington11.6
  28. 28Ohio11.4
  29. 29Alaska11.3
  30. 30South Carolina11.0
  31. 31Wisconsin10.9
  32. 32Florida10.7
  33. 33Kansas10.5
  34. 34Arizona10.4
  35. 35Arkansas10.0
  36. 36Georgia9.9
  37. 37Nebraska9.4
  38. 38Oklahoma9.3
  39. 39Texas9.2
  40. 40Nevada9.0
  41. 41Tennessee9.0
  42. 42Iowa8.9
  43. 43Kentucky8.8
  44. 44Montana8.8
  45. 45Utah8.6
  46. 46Indiana7.1
  47. 47Alabama7.0
  48. 48Mississippi6.3
  49. 49Wyoming6.2
  50. 50Idaho5.9

Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Connecticut. Withheld for counties under 1,000 residents because one psychiatrist can create an unstable per-capita rate. A published zero means HRSA recorded no psychiatrist, not that mental-health care is unavailable.

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Source: HRSA Area Health Resources File (2024–2025 release; psychiatrist data year varies by release). · How this is built