The New York Mental Health Workforce

Key findings

• New York registers 562.5 active providers per 100,000 residents. That ranks 13 of 51 jurisdictions, above the national 433.5. #
• New York County has the state's highest registered density (1539.1 per 100k). #
• Social workers are the largest group at 47.7% of New York's registered workforce, compared with 30.4% nationally. #
• 6,208 providers with a New York practice address first entered the NPI registry in 2025, versus 5,426 in 2019. These are registry entries, not licenses issued. #
• 61% of New York providers share a registered practice location with six or more in-scope providers. #

Providers per 100,000 by county

Providers are allocated to counties from their practice ZIP code. We withhold the rate for one county (Wayne), where a single practice address holds at least half the providers registered there, typically a regional employer that enrols its whole clinical staff at one headquarters, which inflates that county and thins its neighbours. The same values appear in the table.

Provider-type mix vs the national picture

Each provider counts once under their primary taxonomy; the US share is printed beside each New York figure for comparison.

When New York's providers entered the registry

This chart shows active providers by the year they entered the NPI registry. Registry entry is not licensure. Clinicians typically register when they start billing, so this measures registrations, not the workforce itself. 2026 is a partial year.

Practice-location size

This shows the share of New Yorkproviders at single- and multi-provider practice locations, grouped by normalized practice address. It's only a proxy, so see the limitations below.

CE requirements for New York clinicians