NPPES file of Aug 9, 2026

Chiropractor vs Sports Physician Chiropractor

Chiropractor has 45.8 times as many registry records as Sports Physician Chiropractor: 96,211 against 2,102. 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

Chiropractor: 96,211 records in 56 states

  1. California11,498
  2. Texas6,979
  3. Florida6,967
  4. New York4,573
  5. Illinois4,524

Chiropractor nationwide →

Sports Physician Chiropractor: 2,102 records in 53 states

  1. California404
  2. Texas154
  3. New York128
  4. Florida109
  5. New Jersey109

Sports Physician Chiropractor nationwide →

By state, with records per 100,000 residents

StateChiropractorSports Physician ChiropractorPer 100,000 (first)Per 100,000 (second)
California11,49840429.51.0
Texas6,97915422.90.5
Florida6,96710930.80.5
New York4,57312823.40.7
Illinois4,5248936.00.7
Pennsylvania3,9346330.40.5
Minnesota3,3774558.90.8
Georgia3,2517829.50.7
Michigan3,0582530.50.2
Washington3,0065938.50.8
New Jersey2,91010931.31.2
Ohio2,6886222.80.5
Wisconsin2,5503343.10.6
Missouri2,5374340.90.7
Colorado2,3497940.01.3
North Carolina2,2424120.70.4
Iowa2,0193063.00.9
Arizona1,9715026.50.7
Oregon1,8816944.41.6
Massachusetts1,5774122.50.6
Virginia1,5665018.10.6
South Carolina1,5402028.70.4
Tennessee1,5292221.50.3
Kansas1,4492749.30.9
Indiana1,4061920.50.3
Kentucky1,016522.40.1
Oklahoma9831524.20.4
Utah9013426.41.0
Connecticut9072525.10.7
Alabama9011617.60.3
Maryland8812114.30.3
Nebraska852643.10.3
Louisiana770916.80.2
Idaho7081436.00.7
Nevada6941221.70.4
Arkansas678122.10.0
South Dakota5331158.01.2
North Dakota498663.50.8
Montana4741041.80.9
Maine418629.90.4
New Mexico4111119.40.5
Hawaii390827.20.6
New Hampshire377926.90.6
Alaska317443.20.5
Mississippi317110.80.0
West Virginia276215.60.1
Delaware238323.10.3
Rhode Island228620.80.5
Vermont211532.60.8
Wyoming171229.30.3
District of Columbia69110.20.1

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

Common questions

How many Chiropractor providers are there vs Sports Physician Chiropractor?

There are 96,211 Chiropractor and 2,102 Sports Physician Chiropractor records in the CMS NPPES registry, counted by primary taxonomy.

Which specialty is spread across more states?

Chiropractor has records in 56 states and territories, against 53.

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.