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

Name: Veterinarians by U.S. state, 2025
Creator: Profession Count
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83,890

veterinarians employed across 51 states and D.C. in May 2025, summing the state estimates for Veterinarians (SOC 29-1131).

California has the most veterinarians at 9,170, and Wyoming the fewest at 140. The median state has 1,150. Per resident, New Hampshire leads with 47.2 veterinarians per 100,000 people.

Veterinarians by state, ranked

#	State	Veterinarians (2025)	Per 100,000 residents	With a published email
1	California	9,170	23.2	61
2	Texas	6,270	21.5	54
3	Florida	5,360	24.9	147
4	Pennsylvania	3,490	26.8	160
5	Ohio	3,430	29.1	164
6	New York	3,390	16.8	128
7	North Carolina	2,940	28.2	52
8	Virginia	2,700	31.3	31
9	Georgia	2,670	24.9	33
10	Washington	2,390	31	23
11	Colorado	2,340	40.5	39
12	Illinois	2,330	18.2	70
13	Minnesota	2,140	37.5	20
14	Arizona	2,080	29.1	26
15	Michigan	2,030	20.1	7,147
16	Massachusetts	1,920	27.3	29
17	Missouri	1,920	31.2	9
18	New Jersey	1,910	20.6	1,167
19	Wisconsin	1,830	31.1	69
20	Tennessee	1,730	25	21
21	Oregon	1,660	39.2	17
22	Indiana	1,500	22.1	174
23	Maryland	1,430	23.1	36
24	South Carolina	1,380	27	22
25	Kentucky	1,190	26.4	27
26	Oklahoma	1,150	29	5
27	Alabama	1,020	20.3	10
28	Iowa	1,000	31.3	19
29	Kansas	1,000	34	4
30	Connecticut	950	26.3	18
31	Louisiana	950	20.4	8
32	Nebraska	780	39.8	3
33	Nevada	680	21.9	5
34	New Hampshire	650	47.2	5
35	Utah	640	19.6	5
36	Maine	600	44	6
37	Arkansas	540	17.9	4
38	Idaho	540	29.4	7
39	Montana	510	47	10
40	Mississippi	480	16.2	1
41	New Mexico	460	21.7	4
42	Rhode Island	430	39.2	6
43	West Virginia	390	21.7	2
44	Hawaii	370	25.4	5
45	South Dakota	280	31.6	9
46	Vermont	280	43.5	0
47	North Dakota	270	34.7	0
48	Delaware	230	23.2	7
49	District of Columbia	190	27.6	1
50	Alaska	160	21.8	2
51	Wyoming	140	24.3	1

Per capita

Headcount follows population, so the per-100,000 column is the fairer comparison between states. Top five: New Hampshire (47.2), Montana (47), Maine (44), Vermont (43.5), Colorado (40.5). Bottom five: Mississippi (16.2), New York (16.8), Arkansas (17.9), Illinois (18.2), Utah (19.6).

Published business emails

9,873 veterinarians 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 veterinarians 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 29-1131 (Veterinarians), one series per state (for example OEUS060000000000029113101 for California), 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.