Offices of DentistsExplore a dental market

Census atlas · The business map of American dentistry

Where is dentistry actually practiced?

Tired of market decks citing numbers nobody can trace? Every count here names its source table and vintage — and where the source suppresses a figure, we show the suppression, not a guess.

136,140United States · dentist officesCBP 2022establishments22,642California · dentist officesCBP 2022establishments1,943San Diego County · dentist officesCBP 2022establishments

How to read a market

Units matterEstablishments are business locations, not dentists and not licenses. Start with what NAICS 621210 counts.Denominators matterA raw count means little without population underneath it. Per-100k views change which markets look crowded.Vintage mattersEvery figure here carries its reference year and retrieval date. Comparing across vintages is how research goes wrong.

Interactive tool

The Market Brief Builder

Evaluating a specific market for a startup, second location, acquisition, or move? Bring the counts you can gather from public sources in twenty minutes — population, offices, growth — and leave with a formula-transparent Market Assessment Brief: supply/demand math shown line by line, every assumption labeled and editable, your sources graded, and a field checklist of what to verify before you trust it. This tool ships no data about any market. It makes your data defensible.

The decision

What are you deciding, and over what geography? The decision type picks which section leads the brief; the trade area gives density a denominator — and gets printed in the header so nobody mistakes the boundary.

What decision is this brief for?
Startup leads with required share, an additional location adds the overlap check, an acquisition pivots to durability, a relocation unlocks a comparison column, and the associate lens reads workload per provider.
Trade area
Pick the geography you will actually count. Population and office count must describe this same boundary — that is the whole game.

Explore market data

Dental Market ExplorerA framework for exploring practice density, population, growth, competition, and other sourced market signals.California Dental Market DataA state-level starting point for sourced dental market and practice-distribution research.San Diego Dental Market DataA local market research hub for San Diego County dental business and practice-distribution data.Dental Market Data MethodologyHow sources, update dates, caveats, transformations, and estimates should be documented.NAICS 621210: Offices of DentistsIndustry classification context and links into the dedicated NAICS 621210 reference property.