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How many physician assistants are there in the United States, by state?

Name: Physician Assistants by U.S. state, 2025
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162,150

physician assistants employed across 51 states and D.C. in May 2025, summing the state estimates for Physician Assistants (SOC 29-1071).

New York has the most physician assistants at 19,140, and Mississippi the fewest at 320. The median state has 1,770. Per resident, Connecticut leads with 99 physician assistants per 100,000 people.

Physician Assistants by state, ranked

#	State	Physician Assistants (2025)	Per 100,000 residents	With a published email
1	New York	19,140	94.7	730
2	California	13,600	34.4	292
3	Texas	10,110	34.7	310
4	Florida	9,310	43.2	12,341
5	Pennsylvania	9,020	69.4	546
6	North Carolina	7,490	71.7	227
7	Michigan	6,310	62.6	7,244
8	Georgia	5,610	52.4	238
9	Ohio	4,900	41.5	5,872
10	New Jersey	4,790	51.6	2,107
11	Massachusetts	4,470	63.6	114
12	Virginia	4,340	50.3	136
13	Illinois	3,790	29.6	128
14	Arizona	3,750	52.4	125
15	Minnesota	3,660	64.1	50
16	Wisconsin	3,580	60.7	114
17	Connecticut	3,570	99	117
18	Washington	3,540	45.9	42
19	Colorado	3,270	56.6	112
20	Maryland	2,950	47.8	98
21	Missouri	2,300	37.4	31
22	Oregon	2,250	53.1	30
23	South Carolina	2,250	44	96
24	Tennessee	2,240	32.4	176
25	Indiana	2,110	31.1	122
26	Oklahoma	1,770	44.7	26
27	Utah	1,610	49.2	61
28	Kentucky	1,360	30.2	127
29	Louisiana	1,360	29.2	26
30	Nebraska	1,330	67.8	20
31	Idaho	1,320	71.8	30
32	Iowa	1,200	37.6	16
33	Nevada	1,090	35.1	46
34	West Virginia	1,080	60.2	110
35	New Hampshire	1,060	76.9	22
36	Maine	1,030	75.6	20
37	Alabama	930	18.5	69
38	Kansas	890	30.3	21
39	Delaware	860	86.9	19
40	Arkansas	850	28.2	19
41	Rhode Island	810	73.8	5
42	Alaska	700	95.4	13
43	New Mexico	700	33.1	13
44	South Dakota	680	76.7	11
45	Montana	600	55.3	19
46	Hawaii	530	36.4	15
47	North Dakota	510	65.5	9
48	District of Columbia	470	68.2	12
49	Vermont	410	63.8	8
50	Wyoming	330	57.2	5
51	Mississippi	320	10.8	31

Per capita

Headcount follows population, so the per-100,000 column is the fairer comparison between states. Top five: Connecticut (99), Alaska (95.4), New York (94.7), Delaware (86.9), New Hampshire (76.9). Bottom five: Mississippi (10.8), Alabama (18.5), Arkansas (28.2), Louisiana (29.2), Illinois (29.6).

Published business emails

32,171 physician assistants nationally have a business email address published on a licence register, a practice website or a professional directory, as counted by Email Lists USA's physician assistants list on October 1, 2026. That is a count of people who publish a work address, not a measure of the profession's size, and it moves with each rebuild of that list.

State pages

Source: U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics (OEWS), via api.bls.gov v2, May 2025 estimates for occupation 29-1071 (Physician Assistants), one series per state (for example OEUS360000000000029107101 for New York), read October 1, 2026. Per-capita denominators: U.S. Census Bureau, 2020 Census resident population. The U.S. figure on this page is the sum of the published state estimates, not a separately published national total.