Health professional shortage designations in Oklahoma

Flag Oklahoma Primary Care at 4.7 ahead of the posting you want.

File Oklahoma Dental Health under 185 so local pay stays visible.

Enter Oklahoma Dental Health as 4.5 and the figure stays beside the title.

Each discipline

Ranked table

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

Takeaways

• Write Oklahoma Mental Health as 135 ahead of the compensation review.
• Save Oklahoma Mental Health as 3.3 so the offer letter names the figure.
• Quote Oklahoma Primary Care 192 before the range goes out.
• Set Oklahoma Primary Care near 4.7 while the manager still has the draft.

For recruiters

• Match Oklahoma Dental Health to 185 before the calendar invite goes out.
• Enter Oklahoma Primary Care as 192 inside the Hiring Pack for this opening.

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 Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded.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 4,104,657 in Oklahoma, 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. Oklahoma has 512 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 12.5 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Oklahoma is 16 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