Health professional shortage designations in Oregon

In Oregon, Primary Care carries 142 designated shortage-area IDs, more than the other two disciplines.

Primary care, dental health, and mental health together are 412 distinct IDs in Oregon, 9.6 per 100,000 civilian residents.

Do not skip Mental Health in Oregon: it still has 130 designated IDs. The resident count behind the per-100,000 figure is 4,272,269.

Each discipline

Ranked table

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

Takeaways

• Lead a Oregon shortage brief with Primary Care and 142 designated IDs.
• The Oregon three-discipline total is 412 distinct IDs.
• Civilian population used for Oregon is 4,272,269.
• Keep Mental Health on the Oregon note at 130 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 Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded.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 4,272,269 in Oregon, 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. Oregon has 412 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 9.6 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Oregon is 19 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