50 states ranked by amount of NPs

California contains the most professionally active nurse practitioners in the U.S. with 15,374 NPs, according to a ranking from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The ranking is based on October 2018 data compiled by Redi-Data from state licensing information.

In total, 164,914 professionally active NPs are working in the U.S., according to the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Here's how each state stacks up:

1. California — 15,374 professionally active NPs
2. New York — 12,623
3. Florida — 12,295
4. Texas — 9,825
5. Pennsylvania — 6,977
6. Massachusetts — 6,235
7. Ohio — 5,981
8. Tennessee — 5,746
9. New Jersey — 5,513
10. Illinois — 4,950
11. Georgia — 4,797
12. North Carolina — 4,718
13. Virginia — 4,450
14. Michigan — 4,406
15. Indiana — 3,466
16. Missouri — 3,402
17. Arizona — 3,394
18. Maryland — 3,339
19. Connecticut — 3,246
20. Washington — 3,044
21. Wisconsin — 3,037
22. Kentucky — 2,914
23. Colorado — 2,902
24. Minnesota —2,882
25. Alabama —2,525
26. Louisiana — 2,342
27. South Carolina — 2,099
28. Oregon — 2,080
29. Mississippi — 2,075
30. Iowa — 1,919
31. Kansas — 1,644
32. Arkansas — 1,294
33. Utah — 1,201
34. Oklahoma — 1,123
35. Maine — 1,096
36. Nebraska — 1,033
37. New Mexico — 1,017
38. New Hampshire —1,010
39. West Virginia — 928
40. Nevada — 831
41. Idaho — 690
42. Rhode Island — 648
43. Delaware — 528
44. Montana — 505
45. South Dakota — 471
46. Alaska — 470
47. North Dakota — 449
48. Hawaii — 402
49. Vermont — 380
50. Wyoming — 283