Idaho had an 8.8% net migration rate of dentists between 2019 and 2024, the highest of any state, according to data from the American Dental Association.
Among all active U.S. dentists in 2019 and 2024, 7.7% moved states. Dentists who were less than 10 years out of dental school had a migration rate of 17.3% compared to 3.4% for dentists who were more than 10 years out of school.
In total, there were seven states with a net migration rate of dentists higher than 5%.
Here are the 10 states with the highest and lowest dentist migration rates between 2019 and 2024:
Highest migration rates
- Idaho: 8.8%
- Delaware: 8.4%
- New Hampshire: 8.2%
- South Dakota: 7.7%
- Utah: 6.7%
- Montana: 6.6%
- Hawaii: 5.2%
- Florida: 4.8%
- Tennessee: 4.7%
- Arizona, North Carolina: 4.6%
Lowest migration rates
- District of Columbia: 5.6%
- Massachusetts: 4.8%
- Pennsylvania: 4.7%
- Louisiana: 4.5%
- Kentucky: 4.3%
- New Mexico: 4.2%
- Illinois: 3.9%
- New York: 3.8%
- Ohio: 2.8%
- Missouri: 2.6%
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