Summary

Annually, the Health Professions Resource Center (HPRC) collects licensure data from licensing boards. These fact sheets include demographic summaries for the selected professions including the number and geographic distribution of providers, their race/ethnicity, age, gender distribution, as well information on their practice and education.

Data Source

Health Professions Resource Center (HPRC)

Data Description

Health Profession Factsheets are created from licensing files provided annually by the licensing boards and credentialing agencies for each specific profession.

Some factors to keep in mind:

• Supply numbers represent professionals with a current license and a practice address (or mailing address when practice address not available) in Texas for each reported year.
• The ratio of population to provider is calculated as the total population of the state divided by the total count of the profession in the state.
• Population numbers correspond to the population projections from the Texas Demographic Center for the corresponding year.
• Not all licensing files include sufficient information on demographic, practice type, hours worked, or education, in those cases, data graphs and tables are not displayed.

References

• TDC - 2018 Projections (texas.gov)
• Border Definition
• Metropolitan Definition

Related Links

• Health Professions Resource Center
• Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies

For questions about nursing supply tables, please contact the Texas Center for Nursing Workforce Studies at TCNWS@dshs.texas.gov. For questions about all other professions, please contact the Health Professions Resource Center at HPRC@dshs.texas.gov.

This dashboard was last updated November 2024.