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Dentists by metro

Local search for dental practices in the Chicago, Illinois metro

The Census counted 4,881 dental offices in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro in 2023, or 5.3 for every 10,000 residents (County Business Patterns).

The number of dental offices here fell 2.8% from 2018 to 2023, the 5th lowest change of the 25 largest metros (County Business Patterns).

By NightshiftDirect Research. Updated . Figures read .

The metro in numbers

Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro, by the numbers
MeasureHereMedianStandingSource
Change in dental offices since 2018Down 2.8%Up 1.7%5th lowest of 25CBP 2018 to 2023
Dental offices per 10,000 residents5.34.47th highest of 25CBP and ACS 2023
Homes lived in by their owners65.9%63.4%10th highest of 25ACS 2024
Median household income$90,770$92,34410th lowest of 25ACS 2024
Dental offices4,881Not comparedNot comparedCBP 2023
Residents9,406,924Not comparedNot comparedACS 2024
Average pay, all private jobs$81,308Not comparedNot comparedQCEW 2024
Median and standing among the 25 most populous metro areas, or among those where BLS publishes the figure. CBP is the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns, ACS its American Community Survey, and QCEW the Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages from BLS. Each source links the public query that returns the figure.

What stands out

Counted over the same 13 counties in both years, the metro had 5,022 dental offices in 2018 and 4,880 in 2023 (County Business Patterns).

That is a fall of 2.8%, the 5th lowest change of the 25 largest metros, where the median is a rise of 1.7% (County Business Patterns).

So there are fewer practices to compete with than in 2018.

4,881 dental offices against 9,262,559 residents in 2023 works out to 5.3 for every 10,000 people, the 7th highest of the 25 largest metros (County Business Patterns, American Community Survey).

That is one dental office for every 1,898 residents.

The median of the 25 is 4.4, so this metro has 20% more per resident than the middle one (County Business Patterns).

More practices per resident means more of them sharing each neighborhood's searches.

The American Community Survey puts the metro's median household income at $90,770 for 2024, with a published margin of error of $879 (American Community Survey).

That is the 10th lowest of the 25 largest metros, 2% below their median of $92,344 (American Community Survey).

What these figures leave out

County Business Patterns counts establishments with paid employees, so a dentist who works with no paid staff is not in these counts (County Business Patterns).

BLS does not publish dental office jobs or their pay for this metro for 2024, because the figures did not meet its disclosure standards (Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages).

BLS stopped publishing metro figures by industry with its third quarter 2025 data, so 2024 is the last full year of them (BLS notice).

None of these figures shows which businesses appear in Google's map results in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro, and we do not measure that.

None of our sources gives what a search ad click costs in this metro. LocaliQ's national averages for Dentists and Dental Services are $8.00 a click and $72.97 a lead across its own customers' campaigns, not figures for this metro (LocaliQ).

Nearby metros

Dental offices per 10,000 residents in the nearest metros we publish a page for:

The same metro, other fields

Working with us in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro

We are new and have no clients yet, in this metro or any other.

One client per business category per metro area on the Local, Growth and Authority plans. A metro area is a U.S. Census core-based statistical area.

The work itself is on our local SEO page, what applies to every dental practice is on our Dentists page, and every price is on the prices page.

Questions

How many dental offices are there in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro?

4,881 in 2023 in the Census's table for the metro, counting establishments with paid employees, or 5.3 for every 10,000 residents (County Business Patterns).

Is the number of dental offices in the Chicago-Naperville-Elgin metro growing?

No. It fell 2.8% from 2018 to 2023, from 5,022 to 4,880 on the same counties (County Business Patterns).

How these figures were made

For 2023, the Census's metro table counts 4,881 and the metro's counties add up to 4,880; the change since 2018 uses the county sums, so both years cover the same ground (County Business Patterns).

How the figures are chosen and compared is on our method page. Each query below returns figures on this page.

Sources