Urgent care centers have become a key part of the U.S. healthcare landscape, offering an alternative to emergency rooms (ERs) for non-life-threatening medical conditions.Convenience, high costs of ER visits, and increased investment by health systems are a few factors fueling urgent care’s growth—and we will likely continue to see it grow as patient care preferences continue to shift away from the hospital.Using data from ClinicView, we compiled a list of urgent care centers in the U.S. in 2024. Keep reading to find out where these clinics are located and how urgent care centers differ from other care settings.Number of urgent care centers in each state Fig. 1 Data is from the Definitive Healthcare ClinicView product. The number of facilities represents only those urgent care clinics listed as “active” in the Definitive Healthcare database as of February 2024.How many urgent care clinics are in the U.S.?There were 10,728 active urgent care clinics in the U.S. as of February 2024. These...
