Community health centers

HRSA’s Health Center Program listed 18,075 patient-care sites as of October 16, 2026, according to HRSA.

Besides them, 1,291 administrative sites, which HRSA says offer no direct patient care. Seasonal and mobile sites are sites too, counted apart on every page.

HRSA’s sites

18,075
Patient-care sites: The middle of the 52 places with a Census population has 5.1 patient-care sites per 100,000 residents (with an even number of places, the average of the two middle places). The Factbook’s calculation; 4,797
In schools: 26.5% of patient-care sites.; 1,409
Mobile vans: 953
Look-Alike sites

About these figures

Patient-care sites: The middle of the 52 places with a Census population has 5.1 patient-care sites per 100,000 residents (with an even number of places, the average of the two middle places). The Factbook’s calculation
In schools: 26.5% of patient-care sites.

What stands out

Five findings. From HRSA’s health center sites file, each figure read from a query of that file.

HRSA lists 19,366 health center sites with an address, 18,075 of them patient-care sites and 1,291 that HRSA types as administrative, across the 59 states, territories and freely associated states it reports, counting DC. The United States →
West Virginia has the most patient-care sites per 100,000 residents, 29.9, and Delaware the fewest, 1.2. West Virginia →
By HRSA’s record of their setting, 4,797 sites are school-based, 26.5% of the patient-care sites. The United States →
Connecticut has the highest share of patient-care sites in schools, 62.7%, and Alaska the lowest, 3.7%. Connecticut →
953 FQHC Look-Alike sites are at centers HRSA types that way, against 18,413 at centers it types Federally Qualified Health Centers. The United States →

What changed in this release

This is the hub’s first release, retrieved on October 16, 2026: 18,075 patient-care sites in HRSA’s Health Center Program at October 16, 2026.

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Sites per resident, by state

Health center patient-care sites per 100,000 residents run from 1.2 in Delaware to 29.9 in West Virginia

Sites of HRSA's health centers where patients are seen, per 100,000 residents of each state. The table gives each state’s share of them in schools.

Across the states and territories HRSA reports, 18,075 patient-care sites; a site is a place, not a measure of how many patients it sees.

Puerto Rico, 5.0 per 100,000, is in the table and the rankings and not drawn: the map is of the 50 states and DC.

Source: HRSA

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The figures

Health center patient-care sites per 100,000 residents run from 1.2 in Delaware to 29.9 in West Virginia. Sites of HRSA's health centers where patients are seen, per 100,000 residents of each state. The table gives each state’s share of them in schools.
State	Sites per 100,000	Patient-care sites	In schools	Residents
West Virginia	29.9	528	47.0%	1,766,147
Alaska	29.2	215	3.7%	737,270
Vermont	14.7	95	26.3%	644,663
Kentucky	14.0	647	56.7%	4,606,864
Maine	12.9	182	38.5%	1,414,874
Connecticut	12.4	459	62.7%	3,688,496
Idaho	11.8	240	44.6%	2,029,733
New Mexico	11.8	251	33.5%	2,125,498
Montana	11.7	134	44.0%	1,144,694
Louisiana	11.6	534	48.3%	4,618,189
District of Columbia	11.2	78	35.9%	693,645
Mississippi	11.1	327	38.8%	2,954,160
Arkansas	8.8	273	20.9%	3,114,791
Hawaii	8.5	122	22.1%	1,432,820
Missouri	7.5	470	30.6%	6,270,541
California	7.2	2,837	10.5%	39,355,309
Indiana	7.2	503	25.0%	6,973,333
Oregon	7.2	307	27.7%	4,273,586
North Carolina	7.0	782	44.8%	11,197,968
Rhode Island	5.7	64	7.8%	1,114,521
Kansas	5.6	167	40.1%	2,977,220
Washington	5.6	450	16.7%	8,001,020
South Carolina	5.5	306	20.3%	5,570,274
Ohio	5.4	647	31.7%	11,900,510
Wisconsin	5.2	312	59.9%	5,972,787
New Hampshire	5.1	72	36.1%	1,415,342
Oklahoma	5.0	205	12.2%	4,123,288
Michigan	4.6	463	43.6%	10,127,884
Colorado	4.4	267	27.0%	6,012,561
Wyoming	4.4	26	11.5%	588,753
Nebraska	4.3	87	43.7%	2,018,006
New York	4.3	859	24.0%	20,002,427
South Dakota	4.3	40	10.0%	935,094
Alabama	4.2	219	5.9%	5,193,088
Illinois	4.1	519	13.5%	12,719,141
Georgia	4.0	450	18.9%	11,302,748
North Dakota	4.0	32	21.9%	799,358
Pennsylvania	3.8	500	10.6%	13,059,432
Iowa	3.7	120	34.2%	3,238,387
Massachusetts	3.7	262	21.8%	7,154,084
Arizona	3.5	265	12.1%	7,623,818
Florida	3.2	751	22.5%	23,462,518
Tennessee	3.2	237	24.1%	7,315,076
Maryland	2.6	165	29.1%	6,265,347
Texas	2.5	780	17.6%	31,709,821
Virginia	2.5	224	16.1%	8,880,107
Nevada	2.3	74	4.1%	3,282,188
Utah	1.7	60	5.0%	3,538,904
Minnesota	1.6	95	25.3%	5,830,405
New Jersey	1.6	151	11.3%	9,548,215
Delaware	1.2	13	7.7%	1,059,952

Sites by state

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Each state’s patient-care sites in HRSA’s program, with the rate per 100,000 residents
State	Patient-care sites	School-based	Per 100,000 residents
Alabama	219	13	4.2
Alaska	215	8	29.2
Arizona	265	32	3.5
Arkansas	273	57	8.8
California	2,837	298	7.2
Colorado	267	72	4.4
Connecticut	459	288	12.4
Delaware	13	1	1.2
District of Columbia	78	28	11.2
Florida	751	169	3.2
Georgia	450	85	4.0
Hawaii	122	27	8.5
Idaho	240	107	11.8
Illinois	519	70	4.1
Indiana	503	126	7.2
Iowa	120	41	3.7
Kansas	167	67	5.6
Kentucky	647	367	14.0
Louisiana	534	258	11.6
Maine	182	70	12.9
Maryland	165	48	2.6
Massachusetts	262	57	3.7
Michigan	463	202	4.6
Minnesota	95	24	1.6
Mississippi	327	127	11.1
Missouri	470	144	7.5
Montana	134	59	11.7
Nebraska	87	38	4.3
Nevada	74	3	2.3
New Hampshire	72	26	5.1
New Jersey	151	17	1.6
New Mexico	251	84	11.8
New York	859	206	4.3
North Carolina	782	350	7.0
North Dakota	32	7	4.0
Ohio	647	205	5.4
Oklahoma	205	25	5.0
Oregon	307	85	7.2
Pennsylvania	500	53	3.8
Rhode Island	64	5	5.7
South Carolina	306	62	5.5
South Dakota	40	4	4.3
Tennessee	237	57	3.2
Texas	780	137	2.5
Utah	60	3	1.7
Vermont	95	25	14.7
Virginia	224	36	2.5
Washington	450	75	5.6
West Virginia	528	248	29.9
Wisconsin	312	187	5.2
Wyoming	26	3	4.4
American Samoa	8	0
Federated States of Micronesia	14	1
Guam	3	0
Marshall Islands	5	1
Northern Mariana Islands	3	0
Republic of Palau	11	1
Puerto Rico	160	8	5.0
U.S. Virgin Islands	5	0

Rankings

Analysis

Each brief is written around figures the Factbook’s queries return, and every figure in it is checked against the query that produced it, so the text and the data cannot drift apart.

26.5% of health center sites are in schools
Of the 18,075 health center sites where HRSA's program sees patients, 4,797, or 26.5%, are in a school setting. By state the share runs from 3.7% in Alaska to 62.7% of Connecticut's 459 patient-care sites. In 22 of the fifty states and DC the share is above the national one.
American Factbook · October 16, 2026

What this data cannot show

A site in HRSA's file is a site in its scope today, not a promise of open hours: most sites state no schedule, and seasonal and mobile sites are counted apart.
1,293 sites are administrative only, by HRSA's own site type, and see no patients; every count of places a patient can go leaves them out.
The file says nothing about quality, patients served or cost, and 76 sites have no address, so they are in no state.
A site in HRSA’s scope is not a promise of open hours, and the file says nothing about quality or how many patients a site sees.
Mobile vans and seasonal sites are sites too, as HRSA types their location, and every page counts them apart.
FQHC and FQHC Look-Alike are HRSA’s labels for each site’s center. The file does not define the difference, so the pages say only what HRSA says.

The full method: How the health center figures are made.

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Questions2

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Rankings3

Each list ordered by one measure, with the figure behind every entry.

Compares51

States59

One page per state and the District of Columbia.

Counties

Each county with a patient-care site, placed by HRSA's own county code: every site there. Listed by state.

Congressional districts

Each congressional district with a patient-care site, with every site HRSA places in it. Reached from each state list.

Health centers

Each health center HRSA funds, with every patient-care site it runs. Reached from each state list.

Health center sites

Each patient-care site, as HRSA lists it: its address, setting and the health center that runs it. Listed by state.

Sources

HRSA Health Center Service Delivery and Look-Alike Sites — Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care · Public domain — U.S. Government work · retrieved October 16, 2026

Compiled automatically from HRSA Health Center Service Delivery and Look-Alike Sites by a checked SQL query · Editor: Kian O'Connor · How this site is built

How to cite this page

Cite the page’s address and the date printed on it, and name Health Resources and Services Administration, Bureau of Primary Health Care as the source of the figures.

American Factbook. “Health centers.” Updated October 16, 2026. https://americanfactbook.org/health-centers. Source: HRSA Health Center Service Delivery and Look-Alike Sites, https://data.hrsa.gov/data/download.

Data retrieved October 16, 2026