Assisted Living Facility: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

A facility providing supportive services to individuals who can function independently in most areas of activity, but need assistance and/or monitoring to assure safety and well being.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 1,447 records, or 5.5%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. That share describes a self-reported NPPES field, not a verified ownership or operating model. It is therefore an imperfect proxy for private practice: a facility can be privately operated without that flag, and a flagged record does not by itself establish how care is organized.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• NPI records identify providers or organizations, not a complete census of physical facilities, beds, or residents.
• Primary taxonomy is an NPPES classification and may not capture every service a facility provides or every organization that offers assisted living.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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