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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.
District of Columbia has the highest published mental-health doctors in this comparison, at 50.5. The next states shown are Massachusetts (30.5) and New York (27.2).
The table orders 50 states by psychiatrists per 100,000 residents. It describes one published measure, not an overall judgment about where to live.
Use the result as a starting point, then compare the underlying source, dates, and local county figures before making a decision. 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.
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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<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/mental-health-doctors" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Psychiatrists per 100,000 residents by state"></iframe>Source: HRSA Area Health Resources File (2024–2025 release; psychiatrist data year varies by release). · How this is built