Health professional shortage designations in Vermont

A Vermont shortage brief should start with Primary Care. The designated-ID count is 16.

Add dental health, mental health, and primary care and Vermont has 42 distinct designated IDs, 6.5 per 100,000 civilian residents.

The Vermont table ends on Mental Health with 12 designated IDs, against 644,535 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 16 designated IDs in Vermont.
• The three disciplines together total 42 designated IDs in Vermont.
• That Vermont total is 6.5 IDs per 100,000 civilian residents.
• The smaller discipline count in Vermont is 12 for Mental Health.

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 Withdrawn and proposed rows are excluded.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 644,535 in Vermont, 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. Vermont has 42 distinct designated IDs across the three disciplines, which is 6.5 per 100,000 civilian residents. Areas are ordered by that per-resident count. Vermont is 26 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