Boston, MA · Healthcare
Healthcare in Boston, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 1,974 physician offices in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area in 2023, employing 39,098 people with $5.9 billion in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
1,974
19th most of 387 US metro areas
39,098
19.8 per business, against 13.3 across all metros
$5.9 billion
$150,705 per employee
61%
of businesses, against 71% across all metros
+1.3%
in the number of businesses (1,948 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Boston.
- Boston is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of physician offices, 19th of 387.
- Businesses here run larger than average: 19.8 employees each, against 13.3 across all metros.
- Pay runs above the metro average: $150,705 per employee a year, against $106,949.
- The number of businesses held about steady since 2022.
How VERA helps healthcare in Boston.
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Follow up on missed visits the same week
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Questions
Healthcare in Boston
How many physician offices are there in Boston?
1,974 in the Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 39,098 people and paid $5.9 billion in annual payroll.
Is the Boston market for healthcare growing?
By number of businesses it held about steady between 2022 and 2023: from 1,948 to 1,974 (+1.3%).
What does VERA do for healthcare 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.
Healthcare 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 physician offices, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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