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Primary care physicians.
Primary care physicians per 100,000 residents. This is supply, not quality — a rural county with few doctors may still have good care, but longer waits and further travel are likely. Read it with the uninsured rate.
District of Columbia has the highest published primary-care doctors in this comparison, at 129. The next states shown are Vermont (111) and Maine (107).
The table orders 50 states by primary care physicians. 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. Primary care physicians per 100,000 residents. This is supply, not quality — a rural county with few doctors may still have good care, but longer waits and further travel are likely. Read it with the uninsured rate.
Not ranked, because this measure is not published for them: Connecticut. County Health Rankings suppresses counties with too few providers to report without identifying them. Withheld for counties under 1,000 residents: a handful of events on a denominator that small produces a rate that is arithmetically correct and practically meaningless.
These guides combine this measure with other clearly named inputs; they are not overall state verdicts.
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<iframe src="https://movermath.com/embed/primary-care-doctors" width="100%" height="420" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Primary care physicians by state"></iframe>Source: County Health Rankings. · How this is built