Max Mello
Director of Physician & APP Recruitment
Healthcare Recruiting · Austin, TX
Physician, PA & NP recruiting in Austin, grounded in the metro's real numbers.
We track the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX 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 Austin today
Individual providers with an active practice address in the Austin-Round Rock-Georgetown, TX area, from the federal NPI registry (June 2026).
6,971
Physicians
2,859
Nurse practitioners
1,257
Physician assistants
Over the last 12 months, the Austin metro added 172 newly enrolled nurse practitioners, 107 physicians, and 51 physician assistants to the registry. New NP enrollments outpaced new physicians: the advanced-practice workforce is growing faster than the physician base, and hiring plans that ignore that mix are competing for the scarcer pool.
Source: CMS NPPES registry, June 2026. Scope: Texas side of the Austin metro area.
Demand
What the local employer market looks like
Federal quarterly employment data for Austin-area healthcare employers.
Hospitals
29,676 employed, up 0.1% year over year. Average wages down 0.3% over the same period.
Ambulatory care
72,478 employed across 5,471 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 Texas pay ranges →
Shortage pressure
5 federally designated primary care shortage areas in the Austin area.
3 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 Austin?
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.