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Physical therapy clinics in the Paducah, KY-IL metro area

How the Paducah, KY-IL metro area compares with other metro areas and the U.S. for physical therapy clinics: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.

Groundwork market score · out of 100

Score 36 out of 100: Lower middle

Ranked #302 of 386 scored metro areas
#4 of 6 scored metro areas based in Kentucky

Listings
20
8 chain locations (40%)
Official establishments
15
Businesses with payroll, 2023
Household spending a year
$44.8M
On medical and dental services · $1,073 a household
Spending per listing
$2.2M
7% below the U.S.
Listings per 10k households
4.8
11% below the U.S.
Population, 2025
102,259
−1.2% since 2020

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What this means

The Paducah metro area scores 36 (lower middle) on the Groundwork market score for physical therapy clinics, ranking #302 of 386 scored metro areas and #4 of 6 scored metro areas based in Kentucky. That puts it in the bottom quarter of metro areas.

Household spending on medical and dental services in the Paducah metro area comes to about $44.8M a year: $1,073 per household, 17% below the U.S. average. Spread across 20 physical therapy clinics, that is $2.2M per clinic, 7% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. The spending figure covers all medical and dental services, not only physical therapy clinics.

The Paducah metro area has 20 physical therapy clinics on map listings as of September 2026. 8 of them (40%) are chain locations, against 23% across the U.S. That comes to 4.8 for every 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 5.4.

Official counts show 15 businesses with payroll classed as physical, occupational and speech therapists in the Paducah metro area in 2023. That is one for every 2,782 households, against one for every 2,482 across the U.S. Since fiscal 2022, 1 SBA-backed loan worth $3.2M has gone to businesses classed as physical, occupational and speech therapists in the Paducah metro area. Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Paducah metro area declined 1.2%, against +3.1% for the U.S.

How the Paducah metro area compares

The same measures for Kentucky and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all medical and dental services by the physical therapy clinics counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.

Physical therapy in Paducah, KY-IL metro area compared with Kentucky and the U.S.
MeasurePaducah metro areaKentuckyU.S.
Listings per 10k households4.85.05.4
Spending per listing$2.2M$2.1M$2.4M
Households per official establishment2,7822,6572,482
Official establishment growth, 2019–2023n/a+29.1%+23.1%
Population growth, 2020–2025−1.2%+2.2%+3.1%
Spending per household on medical and dental services$1,073$1,042$1,288
Median household income$64,160$63,726$80,734
Groundwork market score3639

Official counts and lending

Businesses

Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
15
Employees, 2023
108
Annual payroll, 2023
$5.7M
One-person businesses, 2023
Not publishedNot published for this business type
Map listings, September 2026
208 chain locations
Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
19The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here

SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022

Loans
1
Amount
$3.2M

SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as physical, occupational and speech therapists in the Paducah metro 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 Paducah metro area

Population, 2025 estimate
102,259−1.2% since 2020
Households
41,735
Median age
43.0
Homes lived in by their owners
72%
Vehicles per household
1.9
Land area
1,236 sq. mi.
People per square mile
83
Median household income
$64,160
Average household income
$88,236
Median home value
$168,700
Jobs located here
48,716
Daytime population
107,914Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here

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Physical therapy across Kentucky

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The highest-scoring metro areas in Kentucky for physical therapy clinics, numbered among those based in Kentucky (a market based in another state is listed without a number), with the Paducah metro area marked.

Top metro areas in Kentucky

Metro areas in Kentucky ranked for physical therapy clinics by Groundwork market score
MarketScoreListingsPer 10k householdsSpending per listingPopulation growthU.S. rank
Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN823423.8$3.8M+2.7%#3 of 386
Clarksville, TN-KY67433.4$3M+8.5%#79 of 386
1Bowling Green, KY44344.6$2.2M+9.5%#235 of 386
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH42593.9$2.7M−2.6%#246 of 386
2Louisville/Jefferson County, KY-IN383035.4$2.2M+2.9%#282 of 386
3Elizabethtown, KY37234.5$2.3M+2.4%#289 of 386
4Paducah, KY-IL36204.8$2.2M−1.2%#302 of 386
5Lexington-Fayette, KY231587.3$1.5M+3.4%#368 of 386
6Owensboro, KY17337.3$1.4M+1.3%#378 of 386

Other business types in the Paducah metro area

Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.

Questions

How many physical therapy clinics are in the Paducah, KY-IL metro area?

Map listings as of September 2026 show 20 physical therapy clinics in the Paducah metro area. 8 of them (40%) are chain locations. The listings count physical therapy and rehabilitation clinics. Official counts show 15 businesses with payroll classed as physical, occupational and speech therapists in 2023.

How much do households in the Paducah, KY-IL metro area spend on medical and dental services?

About $44.8M a year, or $1,073 per household. That is 17% below the U.S. average (an index of 83, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 20 physical therapy clinics on map listings, it comes to $2.2M per clinic. That spending covers all medical and dental services, which physical therapy clinics share with other businesses in the trade. It is estimated from the incomes of the 41,735 households in the Paducah metro area and national spending patterns by income.

How does the Paducah, KY-IL metro area compare with the U.S. for physical therapy clinics?

The Paducah metro area has 4.8 physical therapy clinics per 10,000 households, 11% below the U.S. rate of 5.4. Spending per clinic is $2.2M, 7% below the U.S. figure of $2.4M. At the U.S. ratio of physical therapy clinics to household spending, the Paducah metro area would have about 19, against 20 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 2,782 households, against one for every 2,482 across the U.S.

How fast is the Paducah, KY-IL metro area growing?

Population estimates put the Paducah metro area at 102,259 people in 2025, down 1.2% since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 41,735 households. Median household income in the Paducah metro area is $64,160, 21% below 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. 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 Paducah metro area scores 36 for physical therapy clinics (lower middle), #302 of 386 scored metro areas.

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