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Ada County, ID — Physical therapy Saturation

How many physical therapy exist per person present — residents plus daytime workers — by ZIP code, compared with the U.S. average. Establishment data: Census ZBP 2023. Population: ACS 2024 5-year. 24 ZIP codes analyzed.

Includes: Physical therapy clinics · Occupational therapy offices · Speech therapy offices · Audiology offices. Counted together because official statistics use one 621340 code.

Measured density: High density — 1.54× the U.S. rate (between 1.54× and 1.57× once withheld ZIP cells are counted)

Why a range: Census does not publish a ZIP-by-industry count when that ZIP has 0–2 businesses. 10 ZIP cells in this county are withheld, 1 of them with residents. Each could hold 0, 1, or 2 businesses: counting them all as 0 gives the low end, counting them all as 2 gives the high end — the data cannot say where the truth sits. The density range uses only the populated cells, since ZIPs without residents are excluded from per-person rates. How ranges work

Above the U.S. rate   Ada County physical therapy — 154–157% of the U.S. rate

127 physical therapy are counted in Ada County — 2.0 per 10,000 people present (residents + daytime workers), 154% of the U.S. rate of 1.3.

On the comparable ZIP set (ZIPs with a published count in every year), the total has risen 55% between 2015 and 2023 (67 → 104). That set is smaller than today's county total. 2020–2021 were pandemic-distorted, and Census rounds counts, so small moves are within noise.

Measured supply density is highest in 83616 (Eagle), 83706 (Boise), 83713 (Boise) — well above the national rate. On measured density alone, the lowest-density residential ZIPs with a published count are 83634 (Kuna), 83705 (Boise), 83714 (Garden City).

Census County Business Patterns (2023) puts the county-wide count at 128 establishments, including locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA — so it can run slightly above the sum of the ZIP rows on this page. It is annual, so it lags more than QCEW.

Measured density: Ada County sits at 154% of the U.S. rate for physical therapy. 1 ZIPs with population have no published count (each 0–2 businesses), so the true per-capita rate is between 154% and 157% of the U.S. rate. Why. The highest measured density is in 83616 and 83706; the lowest measured density is in 83634 and 83705.

This is a supply-side read: it counts existing physical therapy and the people present, not foot traffic, income, rent, or whether locals want more. Treat low density as a question to check, not an answer.

Physical therapy
127–147
published count; upper bound counts each withheld ZIP cell as 2 (10 cells) (2023)
Per 10,000 present
2.0
residents + daytime workers
U.S. average
1.3
per 10,000 present
County index
1.54×
vs. U.S.
Latest year (CBP)
128
2023 — $49M annual payroll
Residents
522,161
15 ZIPs with data
Workers
234,412
jobs located in county

Is the area growing?

Population
535,799
Census PEP, July 1 2024
Change since 2020
+7.5%
+37,498 people
Net migration 2024
+7,592
international +2,352, domestic +5,240
Jobs located here
285,553
LODES 2022, +7.7% since 2019

Ada County had an estimated 535,799 residents on July 1, 2024 — 7.5% more than in 2020 (+37,498). In the latest year it gained 9,109 people: births minus deaths +1,457, international migration +2,352, domestic migration +5,240. Components are published separately and may not sum exactly.

285,553 jobs were located in the county in 2022 (+7.7% since 2019), and 240,760 employed residents lived there (+8.8% since 2019). LODES counts wage and salary jobs covered by unemployment insurance plus federal jobs; it excludes the self-employed and military, and counts jobs rather than unique people. 2019→2022 spans the pandemic, so read it as one change, not a trend.

Population and migration say whether the customer base is growing. They do not say whether people want another business of this type. Definitions and limits →  ·  Full county detail →

ZIP gaining residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change
83669 Star
+52.1%
83642 Meridian
+34.8%
83616 Eagle
+26.6%
ZIP losing residents
2015–19 → 2020–24
Change

No ZIP had a statistically significant decrease.

ACS 5-year estimates for 2015–2019 and 2020–2024. Only ZIPs with at least 2,000 residents in both windows and a change larger than the survey margin of error (90%) are listed — small ZIPs move a lot on paper without a real signal.

Nonemployer businesses (no paid employees)

Nonemployer businesses
168
no paid employees (2024)
Receipts
$7.1M
published gross receipts
Receipts per business
$42K
gross, not profit

Census Nonemployer Statistics counts businesses with no paid employees — a separate universe from the employer establishments counted above; a business is in one or the other, never both. They are not storefronts by definition: many are home-based, mobile, or part-time.

We show them beside the density index, not inside it. In categories such as nail and beauty salons, child care, and pet care, one-person businesses can outnumber employer establishments, so the employer-only count understates how many businesses exist. That is not evidence of higher demand.

Receipts are gross revenue reported for these businesses — not profit, and not the size of the local market. Census publishes this only at county level, so it is not shown on the ZIP map. See methodology.

Saturation map

Each ZIP area is shaded by its density of this business type per person present (residents + workers) vs. the U.S. average. Click any ZIP to zoom to its boundary, see its numbers, and switch to aerial imagery. Individual mapped shops appear as dots at street level — Show locations zooms you in to them (scroll or double-click to zoom).

Basemap:
Under 50% 50–100% 100–150% 150–250% 250%+ 0–2 (not published) / no data ZIP total (dot size) Mapped shop (OpenStreetMap, street level)

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

White dots are ZIP totals from the official Census count — the bigger the dot, the more physical therapy in that ZIP. They are aggregated, not individual shops. Turquoise dots are individual locations mapped in OpenStreetMap, shown only at street level; they are crowd-sourced and indicative, may be incomplete, and do not equal the official counts. Only the official ZIP totals feed the saturation index.

Market trend — up 55% since 2015

Number of physical therapy in Ada County across 2015–2023, on a consistent set of ZIP codes present in every year — so changes are real, not ZIP-boundary artifacts. 2015/2018 are pre-pandemic baselines; 2020/2021 are COVID-distorted.

67
2015
80
2018
88
2020
90
2021
92
2022
104
2023

Highest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
83616 Eagle
319%
83706 Boise
205%
83713 Boise
190%
83704 Boise
182%
83642 Meridian
180%
83669 Star
176%
83702 Boise
172%
83709 Boise
124%
83716 Boise
123%
83646 Meridian
123%
83703 Boise
121%
83714 Garden City
91%
83705 Boise
86%
83634 Kuna
81%

Lowest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
83634 Kuna
81%
83705 Boise
86%
83714 Garden City
91%
83703 Boise
121%
83646 Meridian
123%
83716 Boise
123%
83709 Boise
124%
83702 Boise
172%
83669 Star
176%
83642 Meridian
180%
83704 Boise
182%
83713 Boise
190%
83706 Boise
205%
83616 Eagle
319%
Low measured density is not evidence of opportunity. A ZIP with few physical therapy may simply lack foot traffic, retail space, or demand. We rank only residential and mixed ZIPs here; employment hubs and visitor destinations are listed separately below. ZIPs where Census did not publish a count (0–2 businesses) are not ranked: they may be the least served of all, but the data cannot tell 0 from 1 or 2. Verify those locally.

All ZIP codes

Click a column header to sort. Index = physical therapy per 10,000 people present (residents + 0.5×workers) ÷ the U.S. average. 100% = exactly average.

ZIPNeighborhood ResidentsWorkersPhysical therapy Per 10kIndexStatus
83616Eagle 35,41316,866 18 4.1 319% Very high density
83706Boise 35,52412,421 11 2.6 205% High density
83713Boise 31,54910,399 9 2.4 190% High density
83704Boise 42,71925,704 13 2.3 182% High density
83642Meridian 62,27948,250 20 2.3 180% High density
83669Star 16,8271,790 4 2.3 176% High density
83702Boise 24,16332,984 9 2.2 172% High density
83709Boise 58,92819,571 11 1.6 124% Above average
83716Boise 21,4027,729 4 1.6 123% Above average
83646Meridian 76,02312,486 13 1.6 123% Above average
83703Boise 17,5833,318 3 1.6 121% Above average
83714Garden City 27,56413,185 4 1.2 91% Below average
83705Boise 26,83018,972 4 1.1 86% Below average
83634Kuna 36,2864,118 4 1.0 81% Below average
83680Meridian —460 0–2 — — Not published
83701Boise —313 0–2 — — Not published
83707Boise —6,113 0–2 — — Not published
83711Boise —79 0–2 — — Not published
83712Boise 9,0716,619 0–2 — — Not published
83715Boise —120 0–2 — — Not published
83717Boise —75 0–2 — — Not published
83719Boise —39 0–2 — — Not published
83720Boise 031 0–2 — — Not published
83726Boise —973 0–2 — — Not published

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Census withholds some ZIP-by-industry cells to protect small businesses. 0–2 means the cell was not published (Census publishes industry counts only at 3+ per ZIP), so the ZIP is left unranked rather than counted as zero. ~ means the count is estimated from the broader industry group and can be off by a business or two.

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Methodology & sources

Establishments. U.S. Census ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP 2023), NAICS 621340 — offices of physical, occupational and speech therapists, and audiologists. Counts establishments with paid employees. ZBP is published annually with a ~2-year lag.

Fresh county signal. This industry has no clean QCEW series, so the freshest county signal is Census County Business Patterns 2023: 128 establishments and $49M in annual payroll county-wide. This count includes locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA, so it can be slightly higher than the sum of the ZIP rows. CBP is annual and slower than QCEW. It cannot be broken down by ZIP.

Population. U.S. Census American Community Survey 2024 5-year ZCTA population (table B01003). Workers are the ZIP's total employment from the same 2023 ZBP file.

Demand ("people present"). Demand comes from residents and daytime workers: residents + 0.5 × workers. This is the single documented assumption in the model and can be tuned.

Index. index = (ZIP establishments ÷ ZIP demand × 10,000) ÷ the U.S. average for this industry (1.29 per 10,000 present). It is a supply-side density measure; it does not capture income, rent, tourism, or whether locals actually want more.

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