Licensed Practical Nurse
72,457 active US providers register Licensed Practical Nurse as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.8% of every provider in the registry, and the 36th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 164W00000X
- Grouping
- Nursing Service Providers
- Classification
- Licensed Practical Nurse
- Active providers
- 72,457
- States covered
- 51 of 51
What the code means
An individual with post-high school vocational training and practical experience in the provision of nursing care at a level less than that required for certification as a Registered Nurse. Requirements for education, experience, licensure, and job responsibilities vary among the states.
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 |
|---|---|---|
| New York | 22,856 | |
| Ohio | 12,665 | |
| Michigan | 4,418 | |
| Pennsylvania | 3,985 | |
| Florida | 1,951 | |
| Wisconsin | 1,700 | |
| Washington | 1,687 | |
| Massachusetts | 1,525 | |
| Georgia | 1,354 | |
| Tennessee | 1,212 | |
| Oklahoma | 1,095 | |
| New Jersey | 1,052 | |
| Arizona | 1,026 | |
| Illinois | 869 | |
| West Virginia | 867 |
Showing the 15 largest of 51 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 71,993 people against 464 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2016, and 21,886 registered in the last five years, 30% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
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.
- BROOKLYN, NY2,493
- ROCHESTER, NY1,851
- BRONX, NY1,769
- PLYMOUTH MEETING, PA1,669
- FARMINGTON HILLS, MI1,064
- COLUMBUS, OH1,049
- CINCINNATI, OH925
- CLEVELAND, OH689
- DAYTON, OH634
- WILLIAMSVILLE, NY606
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Licensed Practical Nurse 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Nurse | 231 | 0.3% |
| Home Health Aide | 196 | 0.3% |
| Case Manager/Care Coordinator | 185 | 0.3% |
| Licensed Vocational Nurse | 182 | 0.3% |
| Nurse's Aide | 140 | 0.2% |
| Home Health Agency | 105 | 0.1% |
| Adult Companion | 94 | 0.1% |
| Homemaker | 89 | 0.1% |
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.