Boston, MA · Dental Practices
Dental Practices in Boston, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 2,419 dentist offices in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area in 2023, employing 19,313 people with $1.3 billion in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
2,419
11th most of 387 US metro areas
19,313
8.0 per business, against 7.5 across all metros
$1.3 billion
$68,765 per employee
72%
of businesses, against 73% across all metros
-0.4%
in the number of businesses (2,428 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Boston.
- Boston is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of dentist offices, 11th of 387.
- A typical business here is about the national size, with 8.0 employees.
- Pay runs above the metro average: $68,765 per employee a year, against $61,024.
- The number of businesses held about steady since 2022.
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Questions
Dental Practices in Boston
How many dentist offices are there in Boston?
2,419 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 19,313 people and paid $1.3 billion in annual payroll.
Is the Boston market for dental practices growing?
By number of businesses it held about steady between 2022 and 2023: from 2,428 to 2,419 (-0.4%).
What does VERA do for dental practices in Boston?
VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a Boston business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.
Dental Practices in other markets
Other Boston markets
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is dentist offices, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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