Health professional shortage designations in Arizona

The discipline a Arizona recruiter will cite first is Primary Care, at 227 designated IDs.

Across the three disciplines, Arizona totals 649 distinct designated IDs. That is 8.5 per 100,000 civilian residents.

Dental Health still belongs on the Arizona note at 210 designated IDs. Population on July 1, 2025 is 7,607,079, and none of the cells are job openings.

Each discipline

Ranked table

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Takeaways

• In Arizona, cite 227 designated IDs when the discipline is Primary Care.
• All three Arizona disciplines sum to 649 distinct designated IDs.
• Per 100,000 civilian residents, Arizona sits at 8.5.
• Dental Health is the low Arizona count, 210 designated IDs.

For recruiters

• Treat the IDs as designations, not open jobs.
• Say the cells are designations, not vacancies.

Source: HRSA Health Professional Shortage Area detail files (primary care, dental, mental health), 2026-09-30.

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Methodology

Counts are distinct HPSA IDs with status Designated in the HRSA primary-care, dental, and mental-health detail files, last modified 2026-09-30. Component rows that repeat an ID are counted once. Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded. Population is not summed from the HPSA file, because shortage areas overlap. The per-resident count uses Census civilian population on July 1, 2025, which is 7,607,079 in Arizona, divided into the ID count per 100,000 residents. Rural-status fields are not added in this table, because one ID can carry more than one rural status. Arizona has 649 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 8.5 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Arizona is 21 of 51.

Sources

• HRSA Health Professional Shortage Area detail files (primary care, dental, mental health) · 2026-09-30
• Census Bureau Population Estimates Program, civilian population by age and sex · July 1, 2025