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Visalia, CA — Dental practices per 100,000 residents: 40.7, above the 31.4 elsewhere
We measured 58 dental practices in Visalia serving 142,649 residents, and 4 findings stood out against the other markets we measure.
What we set out to measure
Who takes your plan, and who can see you outside working hours?
Every dental practice below comes from public licensing and business records, counted whether or not it appears in this site’s directory. The findings are what the numbers came back with, not a view we formed first and then looked for support for.
Dental practices per 100,000 residents: 40.7
That is 9.3 higher than the 31.4 typical of the 31 other California markets we measure.
Dental practices counted here divided by the town's own population, expressed per 100,000 residents. Dental practices are counted where they sit, and people routinely drive to the next town, so a town centre surrounded by suburbs reads high and the suburbs read low. Read it as how concentrated dental practices are in this town, not how easy it is for residents to be seen.
Half of all dental practices sit in 1 of 5 ZIP codes
31 of them are in 93291 alone, out of the 58 we could place.
Open past 6pm on a weekday moved to 12% since we last measured
Open past 6pm on a weekday: Visalia moved from 9% to 12% since we last measured.
Share of dental practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 7 of 58.
Open Saturday or Sunday moved to 19% since we last measured
Open Saturday or Sunday: Visalia moved from 15% to 19% since we last measured.
Share of dental practices whose published hours include Saturday or Sunday, out of the dental practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 11 of 58.
What this does not tell you
- Insurance figures describe what offices publish, not what they will accept. Confirm your own plan with the office before you book.
- Counts say nothing about price, wait time, or whether an office is taking new patients.
- A group practice with six dentists and a solo office each count as one.
How this was measured
- What was counted
- 58 dental practices with a Visalia address in public licensing and business records. 57 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 142,649, US Census Bureau acs5-2023.
- Measured
- September 15, 2026. We keep every earlier measurement rather than overwriting it, so a later report can say what changed.
- How complete this is
- 83% of the measures this vertical tracks had enough coverage to report here. The rest are withheld rather than estimated, and are listed on the data page.
- Method version
- 1.0
Where the records come from
- American Dentists practice directory (production migration export) — 1,630 records, retrieved September 14, 2026.