Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Allentown, PA
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Allentown, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ area from federal data that updates every month, the same numbers we use when we take a search. Here is the current picture, and what it means if you are hiring.
Provider supply
Who practices in Allentown today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
4,525
Physicians
1,074
Nurse practitioners
1,132
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Allentown metro added 55 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 175 physicians, and 66 physician assistants to the registry. New physician enrollments kept pace with advanced-practice growth over the period.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Pennsylvania side of the Allentown metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Allentown-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
20,646 employed, up 7.3% year over year. Average wages down 2.3% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
25,111 employed across 1,341 sites.
Source: BLS QCEW county files, private ownership, Q4 2024 vs Q4 2025.
Occupation-level wages are published at state level (see the parent state page); metro wage signal = QCEW average weekly wages above. See Pennsylvania pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
1 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Allentown area.
0 of them score in the high-need range. If your facility sits in or near one, you are not imagining it: the supply math is against you. That is the search we run every day.
Source: HRSA HPSA primary care detail file.
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Hiring in Allentown?
Tell us about the role. We'll give you an honest read on the local market for it: who's movable, what they expect, and a realistic timeline.