Behavior Technician vs Clinical Social Worker

Behavior Technician has 1.9 times as many registry records as Clinical Social Worker: 580,469 against 312,758. Each count is the NPPES records whose primary taxonomy is the specialty, so it measures how providers describe their main practice, not everyone trained in it.

CMS NPPES, file of Aug 9, 2026; 2023 Census population estimates · method

Behavior Technician: 580,469 records in 54 states

California171,666
Florida75,633
Michigan63,468
Texas25,158
Maryland25,139

Behavior Technician nationwide →

Clinical Social Worker: 312,758 records in 56 states

California36,261
New York29,293
Massachusetts17,815
Michigan17,644
North Carolina15,561

Clinical Social Worker nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

State	Behavior Technician	Clinical Social Worker	Per 100,000 (first)	Per 100,000 (second)
California	171,666	36,261	440.6	93.1
Florida	75,633	13,458	334.5	59.5
Michigan	63,468	17,644	632.3	175.8
Texas	25,158	11,683	82.5	38.3
Maryland	25,139	9,007	406.8	145.7
New York	4,536	29,293	23.2	149.7
Massachusetts	11,430	17,815	163.3	254.4
North Carolina	13,243	15,561	122.2	143.6
Illinois	9,340	13,637	74.4	108.7
Minnesota	16,115	6,609	280.9	115.2
Indiana	17,050	5,650	248.5	82.3
Colorado	11,984	7,356	203.9	125.2
Ohio	7,538	9,815	64.0	83.3
Georgia	12,209	4,911	110.7	44.5
Utah	10,583	5,485	309.6	160.5
Virginia	7,994	8,027	92.5	92.9
Washington	9,312	6,382	119.2	81.7
New Jersey	2,560	9,790	27.6	105.4
Pennsylvania	4,483	7,830	34.6	60.4
Arizona	7,470	3,200	100.5	43.1
Connecticut	1,896	7,729	52.4	213.7
Missouri	3,712	5,398	59.9	87.1
Tennessee	5,538	3,275	77.7	46.0
Nevada	6,372	2,164	199.5	67.7
New Mexico	5,599	2,526	264.8	119.5
Louisiana	4,931	3,178	107.8	69.5
Oregon	3,063	5,014	72.4	118.4
Oklahoma	5,997	1,995	147.9	49.2
Kentucky	2,373	4,071	52.4	89.9
Hawaii	5,324	1,079	371.0	75.2
Kansas	3,805	2,393	129.4	81.4
Arkansas	4,041	2,103	131.7	68.6
Wisconsin	1,631	4,142	27.6	70.1
South Carolina	3,490	2,046	64.9	38.1
Alabama	3,117	1,788	61.0	35.0
Nebraska	3,921	737	198.2	37.3
Maine	85	3,673	6.1	263.2
Iowa	1,054	2,170	32.9	67.7
Rhode Island	589	2,438	53.7	222.5
Idaho	1,206	1,750	61.4	89.1
District of Columbia	766	1,921	112.8	282.9
New Hampshire	654	1,592	46.6	113.5
Alaska	1,363	759	185.8	103.5
Montana	296	1,589	26.1	140.3
Mississippi	665	1,028	22.6	35.0
Vermont	39	1,261	6.0	194.8
West Virginia	406	835	22.9	47.2
Delaware	302	935	29.3	90.6
North Dakota	629	566	80.2	72.2
Wyoming	284	821	48.6	140.6
South Dakota	272	565	29.6	61.5

Source: CMS NPPES (NPPES files on CMS.gov), primary NUCC taxonomy by practice state; 2023 population estimates (census.gov).

Common questions

How many Behavior Technician providers are there vs Clinical Social Worker?

There are 580,469 Behavior Technician and 312,758 Clinical Social Worker records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Clinical Social Worker has records in 56 states and territories, against 54.

Where is the data from?

Provider counts are from the CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES). Per-capita rates use 2023 Census population estimates.

Two specialties are not substitutes: scope of practice, training and the conditions treated differ. More comparisons →

Written with AI tools from the named public files; every figure is computed from those files (how it is made).

Figures on PlainDoctor are read from the federal files each page names (CMS NPPES, Medicare Part D, MIPS, Open Payments; the HHS-OIG exclusion list only as counts) and from Census population estimates, with the file date shown beside them. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of the NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026.