Homemaker
14,711 active US providers register Homemaker as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.2% of every provider in the registry, and the 103rd largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 376J00000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Related Providers
- Classification
- Homemaker
- Active providers
- 14,711
- States covered
- 50 of 51
What the code means
An individual who provides general household activities such as meal preparation, laundry, and light housekeeping, when the individual regularly responsible for these activities is temporarily absent or unable to provide for himself. Homemakers must meet the state defined training standards.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Ohio | 6,843 | |
| West Virginia | 2,545 | |
| Florida | 1,321 | |
| Nebraska | 1,037 | |
| Nevada | 465 | |
| Illinois | 236 | |
| Michigan | 172 | |
| Connecticut | 152 | |
| Mississippi | 147 | |
| Indiana | 136 | |
| Colorado | 135 | |
| North Dakota | 134 | |
| Texas | 129 | |
| California | 106 | |
| Missouri | 94 |
Showing the 15 largest of 50 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
13,012 of these are people and 1,699 are organisations, so 12% of the code is businesses rather than clinicians. Half of them had registered by 2023, and 10,591 registered in the last five years, 72% of the current population.
That is a fast-growing code. A population where a large share registered recently is either a genuinely expanding field or a category NPPES added late, and the taxonomy definition above usually tells you which.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- SUTTON, WV527
- CINCINNATI, OH425
- AKRON, OH396
- COLUMBUS, OH382
- BECKLEY, WV309
- OAK HILL, WV308
- LAS VEGAS, NV292
- OMAHA, NE291
- CLEVELAND, OH268
- BUCKHANNON, WV235
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Homemaker most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Personal Care Attendant | 1,319 | 9.0% |
| Driver | 783 | 5.3% |
| Adult Companion | 612 | 4.2% |
| Private Vehicle | 576 | 3.9% |
| In Home Supportive Care Agency | 500 | 3.4% |
| Home Health Aide | 478 | 3.2% |
| Non-emergency Medical Transport (VAN) | 313 | 2.1% |
| Chore Provider | 309 | 2.1% |
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.