Health care · Small-town market · New Mexico
Dentists and orthodontists in the Los Alamos, NM area
How the Los Alamos, NM 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 48 out of 100: Lower middle
Ranked #275 of 526 scored small-town markets
#11 of 13 scored small-town markets based in New Mexico
- Listings
- 11
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 11
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $14.2M
- On medical and dental services · $1,724 a household
- Spending per listing
- $1.3M
- 31% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 13.3
- 2% above the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 19,407
- 0.0% since 2020
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What this means
As of September 2026, map listings count 11 dentists and orthodontists in the Los Alamos area. None of them are chain locations, against 12% across the U.S. That is 13.3 per 10,000 households, 2% above the U.S. rate of 13.1.
Household spending on medical and dental services in the Los Alamos area comes to about $14.2M a year: $1,724 per household, 34% above the U.S. average. Spread across 11 dentists and orthodontists, that is $1.3M per practice, 31% 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.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as offices of dentists in the Los Alamos area was 11 in 2023. That is one for every 750 households, against one for every 952 across the U.S.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Los Alamos area held about level, against +3.1% for the U.S. The Groundwork market score for dentists and orthodontists in the Los Alamos area is 48 (lower middle), #275 of 526 scored small-town markets and #11 of 13 scored small-town markets based in New Mexico.
How the Los Alamos area compares
The same measures for New Mexico 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 | Los Alamos area | New Mexico | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 13.3 | 10.4 | 13.1 |
| Spending per listing | $1.3M | $1.1M | $984K |
| Households per official establishment | 750 | 1,224 | 952 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −10.2% | −0.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | 0.0% | +0.3% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,724 | $1,178 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $147,139 | $64,059 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 48 | 51 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 11
- Employees, 2023
- 131
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $6.5M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- Not publishedNot published for this business type
- Map listings, September 2026
- 110 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 15The 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 Los Alamos 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 Los Alamos area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 19,4070.0% since 2020
- Households
- 8,247
- Median age
- 40.5
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 75%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.0
- Land area
- 109 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 178
- Median household income
- $147,139+21.3% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $170,885
- Median home value
- $495,800
- Jobs located here
- 20,699
- Daytime population
- 29,150Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Every New Mexico market ranked →The highest-scoring small-town markets in New Mexico for dentists and orthodontists, numbered among those based in New Mexico, with the Los Alamos area marked.
Top small-town markets in New Mexico
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Alamogordo, NM | 82 | 9 | 3.7 | $3M | +3.7% | #11 of 526 |
| 2Carlsbad-Artesia, NM | 78 | 14 | 5.9 | $2.1M | +0.3% | #34 of 526 |
| 3Española, NM | 66 | 5 | 3.2 | $3.5M | −1.0% | #106 of 526 |
| 4Ruidoso, NM | 63 | 6 | 6.0 | $1.8M | −2.3% | #140 of 526 |
| 5Taos, NM | 60 | 12 | 7.7 | $1.5M | +0.3% | #166 of 526 |
| 6Hobbs, NM | 60 | 23 | 9.3 | $1.3M | +0.2% | #169 of 526 |
| 7Las Vegas, NM | 59 | 8 | 5.8 | $1.8M | −3.2% | #172 of 526 |
| 8Silver City, NM | 55 | 7 | 6.2 | $1.7M | −3.4% | #215 of 526 |
| 9Gallup, NM | 48 | 14 | 6.6 | $1.5M | −6.1% | #273 of 526 |
| 10Clovis, NM | 48 | 21 | 8.1 | $1.3M | −3.3% | #274 of 526 |
| 11Los Alamos, NM | 48 | 11 | 13.3 | $1.3M | 0.0% | #275 of 526 |
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Questions
How many dentists and orthodontists are in the Los Alamos, NM area?
The Los Alamos area has 11 dentists and orthodontists on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count dental practices, orthodontists included. Official counts show 11 businesses with payroll classed as offices of dentists in 2023.
How much do households in the Los Alamos, NM area spend on medical and dental services?
About $14.2M a year, or $1,724 per household. That is 34% above the U.S. average (an index of 134, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 11 dentists and orthodontists on map listings, it comes to $1.3M per practice. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only dentists and orthodontists. It is estimated from the incomes of the 8,247 households in the Los Alamos area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Los Alamos, NM area compare with the U.S. for dentists and orthodontists?
The Los Alamos area has 13.3 dentists and orthodontists per 10,000 households, 2% above the U.S. rate of 13.1. Spending per practice is $1.3M, 31% above the U.S. figure of $984K. At the national ratio of dentists and orthodontists to household spending, the Los Alamos area would have about 15, against 11 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 750 households, against one for every 952 across the U.S.
How fast is the Los Alamos, NM area growing?
Population estimates put the Los Alamos area at 19,407 people in 2025, unchanged since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 8,247 households. The median household income in the Los Alamos area is $147,139 a year, 82% above the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 21.3% 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 Los Alamos area scores 48 for dentists and orthodontists (lower middle), #275 of 526 scored small-town markets.
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