Health care · Small-town market · Minnesota
Dentists and orthodontists in the Bemidji, MN area
How the Bemidji, MN area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for dentists and orthodontists: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 66 out of 100: Upper middle
Ranked #111 of 526 scored small-town markets
#5 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota
- Listings
- 15
- 1 chain location (7%)
- Official establishments
- 13
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $24.4M
- On medical and dental services · $1,345 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.6M
- 66% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 8.3
- 37% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 47,055
- +1.8% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 15 dentists and orthodontists in the Bemidji area. One of them (7%) is a chain location, against 12% across the U.S. Per 10,000 households, that is 8.3, 37% below the U.S. rate of 13.1.
Household spending on medical and dental services in the Bemidji area comes to about $24.4M a year: $1,345 per household, 4% above the U.S. average. That is about $1.6M of household spending for each practice on map listings, 66% above the U.S. figure of $984K. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which dentists and orthodontists share with other businesses in the trade.
In 2023, official counts showed 13 businesses with payroll in the Bemidji area classed as offices of dentists. That is one for every 1,398 households, against one for every 952 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Bemidji area grew 1.8%, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). The Groundwork market score for dentists and orthodontists in the Bemidji area is 66 (upper middle), #111 of 526 scored small-town markets and #5 of 17 scored small-town markets based in Minnesota. That puts it in the top quarter of small-town markets.
How the Bemidji area compares
The same measures for Minnesota and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the dentists and orthodontists counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Bemidji area | Minnesota | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 8.3 | 11.1 | 13.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.6M | $1.4M | $984K |
| Households per official establishment | 1,398 | 1,225 | 952 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −2.8% | −0.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +1.8% | +2.1% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,345 | $1,550 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $68,975 | $89,062 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 66 | 80 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 13
- Employees, 2023
- 164
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $12M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 151 chain location
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 25The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as offices of dentists in the Bemidji area, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in the Bemidji area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 47,055+1.8% since 2020
- Households
- 18,172
- Median age
- 37.0
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 70%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 2,505 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 19
- Median household income
- $68,975+40.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $89,694
- Median home value
- $237,500
- Jobs located here
- 21,323
- Daytime population
- 47,553Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every Minnesota market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in Minnesota for dentists and orthodontists, numbered among those based in Minnesota (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Bemidji area marked.
Top small-town markets in Minnesota
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Faribault-Northfield, MN | 88 | 16 | 6.8 | $2.2M | +4.2% | #3 of 526 |
| 2Austin, MN | 83 | 11 | 7.0 | $2M | +2.3% | #10 of 526 |
| 3Worthington, MN | 68 | 7 | 9.1 | $1.5M | +0.6% | #96 of 526 |
| 4Detroit Lakes, MN | 67 | 9 | 6.2 | $2.2M | +0.9% | #98 of 526 |
| Wahpeton, ND-MN | 67 | 7 | 7.4 | $1.9M | 0.0% | #100 of 526 |
| 5Bemidji, MN | 66 | 15 | 8.3 | $1.6M | +1.8% | #111 of 526 |
| 6Brainerd, MN | 66 | 43 | 10.2 | $1.4M | +4.3% | #113 of 526 |
| 7New Ulm, MN | 64 | 8 | 7.3 | $1.8M | −1.5% | #123 of 526 |
| 8Fergus Falls, MN | 58 | 22 | 8.7 | $1.6M | +1.6% | #188 of 526 |
| 9Red Wing, MN | 58 | 21 | 10.6 | $1.4M | +1.3% | #194 of 526 |
Other business types in the Bemidji area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
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Questions
How many dentists and orthodontists are in the Bemidji, MN area?
The Bemidji area has 15 dentists and orthodontists on map listings as of September 2026. One of them (7%) is a chain location. The listings count dental practices, orthodontists included. Official counts show 13 businesses with payroll classed as offices of dentists in 2023.
How much do households in the Bemidji, MN area spend on medical and dental services?
About $24.4M a year, or $1,345 per household. That is 4% above the U.S. average (an index of 104, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 15 dentists and orthodontists on map listings, it comes to $1.6M per practice. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only dentists and orthodontists. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,172 households in the Bemidji area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Bemidji, MN area compare with the U.S. for dentists and orthodontists?
The Bemidji area has 8.3 dentists and orthodontists per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 13.1. Spending per practice is $1.6M, 66% above the U.S. figure of $984K. At the national ratio of dentists and orthodontists to household spending, the Bemidji area would have about 25, against 15 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 1,398 households, against one for every 952 across the U.S.
How fast is the Bemidji, MN area growing?
Population estimates put the Bemidji area at 47,055 people in 2025, up 1.8% since 2020, slower than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 18,172 households. The median household income in the Bemidji area is $68,975 a year, 15% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 40.3% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. The Bemidji area scores 66 for dentists and orthodontists (upper middle), #111 of 526 scored small-town markets.
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