Health care · Small-town market · Massachusetts
Medical and dental practices in the Nantucket, MA area
How the Nantucket, MA area compares with other small-town markets and the U.S. for medical and dental practices: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score · out of 100
Score 76 out of 100: High
Ranked #42 of 538 scored small-town markets
#2 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Massachusetts
- Listings
- 28
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 16
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $8.5M
- On medical and dental services · $1,616 a household
- Spending per listing
- $303K
- 99% above the U.S.
- Listings per 10k households
- 53.3
- 37% below the U.S.
- Population, 2025
- 14,758
- +3.6% since 2020
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What this means
For medical and dental practices, the Nantucket area has a Groundwork market score of 76 (high): #42 of 538 scored small-town markets and #2 of 3 scored small-town markets based in Massachusetts. That puts it in the top 10% of small-town markets for medical and dental practices.
As of September 2026, map listings count 28 medical and dental practices in the Nantucket area. None of them are chain locations, against 11% across the U.S. That is 53.3 per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 84.5.
At $1,616 per household (25% above the U.S. average), households in the Nantucket area spend about $8.5M a year on medical and dental services. Spread across 28 medical and dental practices, that is $303K per practice, 99% above the U.S. figure of $152K.
In 2023, official counts showed 16 businesses with payroll in the Nantucket area classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers. That is one for every 328 households, against one for every 270 across the U.S. Population estimates show the Nantucket area grew 3.6% from 2020 to 2025, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%).
How the Nantucket area compares
The same measures for Massachusetts and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the medical and dental practices 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 | Nantucket area | Massachusetts | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 53.3 | 72.0 | 84.5 |
| Spending per listing | $303K | $192K | $152K |
| Households per official establishment | 328 | 341 | 270 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −4.4% | +1.5% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +3.6% | +2.4% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on medical and dental services | $1,616 | $1,386 | $1,288 |
| Median household income | $139,688 | $103,960 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | 76 | 72 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 16
- Employees, 2023
- 90
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $5.7M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 0Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 280 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 56The 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 physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in the Nantucket 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 Nantucket area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 14,758+3.6% since 2020
- Households
- 5,252
- Median age
- 42.4
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 72%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.9
- Land area
- 46 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 314
- Median household income
- $139,688
- Average household income
- $205,560
- Median home value
- $1,593,800
- Jobs located here
- 6,570
- Daytime population
- 13,667Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Massachusetts
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Vineyard Haven, MA | 91 | 36 | 47.5 | $310K | +3.1% | #3 of 538 |
| 2Nantucket, MA | 76 | 28 | 53.3 | $303K | +3.6% | #42 of 538 |
| 3Greenfield, MA | 65 | 172 | 54.5 | $211K | −0.3% | #131 of 538 |
Other business types in the Nantucket area
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
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Health care
Child care
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many medical and dental practices are in the Nantucket, MA area?
The Nantucket area has 28 medical and dental practices on map listings as of September 2026. None of them are chain locations. The listings count every outpatient clinic and practice, and urgent care. Official counts show 16 businesses with payroll classed as offices of physicians, dentists, chiropractors, optometrists and therapists, and urgent care centers in 2023.
How much do households in the Nantucket, MA area spend on medical and dental services?
About $8.5M a year, or $1,616 per household. That is 25% above the U.S. average (an index of 125, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 28 medical and dental practices on map listings, it comes to $303K per practice. It is estimated from the incomes of the 5,252 households in the Nantucket area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Nantucket, MA area compare with the U.S. for medical and dental practices?
The Nantucket area has 53.3 medical and dental practices per 10,000 households, 37% below the U.S. rate of 84.5. Spending per practice is $303K, 99% above the U.S. figure of $152K. At the national ratio of medical and dental practices to household spending, the Nantucket area would have about 56, against 28 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 328 households, against one for every 270 across the U.S.
How fast is the Nantucket, MA area growing?
Population estimates put the Nantucket area at 14,758 people in 2025, up 3.6% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 5,252 households. Median household income in the Nantucket area is $139,688, 73% above the U.S. median of $80,734.
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 Nantucket area scores 76 for medical and dental practices (high), #42 of 538 scored small-town markets.
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