Health professional shortage designations in Idaho

Cite Idaho Primary Care at 5.1 while the role is still unposted.

List Idaho Dental Health at 84 and nobody swaps in a national midpoint.

Mark Idaho Dental Health at 4.1 rather than hiding the cell.

Each discipline

Ranked table

Swipe the table sideways. The same figures are in the blocks above.

Takeaways

• Flag Idaho Mental Health at 65 before someone copies a midpoint.
• File Idaho Mental Health under 3.2 so the comparison stays on the table.
• Enter Idaho Primary Care as 104 rather than a round number from memory.
• Write Idaho Primary Care as 5.1 before a national midpoint replaces it.

For recruiters

• Save Idaho Dental Health as 84 ahead of the posting you want.
• Send Idaho Primary Care out 104 inside the Hiring Pack before you post.

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 Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded.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 2,026,377 in Idaho, 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. Idaho has 253 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 12.5 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Idaho is 15 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