Health professional shortage designations in Minnesota

A Minnesota shortage brief should start with Primary Care. The designated-ID count is 199.

Add dental health, mental health, and primary care and Minnesota has 533 distinct designated IDs, 9.1 per 100,000 civilian residents.

The Minnesota table ends on Mental Health with 141 designated IDs, against 5,829,774 civilian residents. These are designations, not vacancies.

Each discipline

Ranked table

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

Takeaways

• Primary Care accounts for 199 designated IDs in Minnesota.
• The three disciplines together total 533 designated IDs in Minnesota.
• That Minnesota total is 9.1 IDs per 100,000 civilian residents.
• The smaller discipline count in Minnesota is 141 for Mental Health.

For recruiters

• Cite Primary Care before the other disciplines.
• Do not add the IDs into the offer math.

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 Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded.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 5,829,774 in Minnesota, 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. Minnesota has 533 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 9.1 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Minnesota is 20 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