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Know whether a practice location works before you sign the lease.

A dental practice demographics report for one address, $29.99. Measured demographics, the dental-visit rates that turn residents into patients, and a verified count of the offices you would compete with — every figure citing a public source a lender can check.

A street address with its city and state, as it appears on mail — or a 5-digit ZIP for a wider look at a market. You will confirm the building before anything is charged.

Not ready? Read a complete sample report first — every section, for a real address, free.

Cover of the sample report for 8888 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, AZ: three rings at 2, 3 and 5 miles holding 26,085, 52,215 and 168,621 residents. Grade F.
The public sample: 8888 N Scottsdale Rd, Scottsdale, Arizona. Prepared July 2026.

Real output

Scottsdale looks like a sure thing. It grades an F.

On the demographics it is hard to fault. Median household income of $119,620, half again the Arizona median. 65.2% of adults hold a degree, against 33.3% statewide. And 71.8% of them saw a dentist in the past year, against 58.4% across Arizona — this is a population that already buys dentistry.

57 general practices got there first. That leaves 666 active patients per office. One office needs 1,300 to 1,500.

The report exists to catch exactly this: a market where every demographic number is excellent and the competition math still fails. Deciding where to open a dental practice on demographics alone is how a market like this one gets misread. If a site is crowded, the grade says so plainly. We are paid for the report and nothing else, so a crowded market has no reason to read as an open one.

Read the full Scottsdale report — free, all 16 sections

F

Far fewer attending patients per practice than one practice needs

This site fails on supply: dental offices are already dense enough at every radius measured that the local patient base cannot support another practice at normal capacity, despite unusually favorable household economics.

52,215residents within 3 miles 26,085 within 2 · 168,621 within 5
$119,620median household income Arizona: $80,392
71.8%adults who saw a dentist last year Arizona: 58.4%
57general practices within 3 miles plus 20 specialist practices
666active patients per office one office needs 1,300–1,500
65.2%of adults hold a degree Arizona: 33.3%

Every figure above is taken from the sample report itself — ACS 2020–2024, CDC PLACES, and a verified office census. Not a mock-up.

What you get

Sixteen sections. Every number compared, sourced, and dated.

The report is built around three rings — 2, 3 and 5 miles of drive from your address — because that is how dentists and brokers actually talk about a market. In rural markets the rings widen to 5, 10 and 15 miles, and the report says which set it used.

How it's built

Counted, not estimated. And it shows its work.

The demographic half comes from the Census Bureau — the 2020–2024 American Community Survey on 2020 block-group geometry, apportioned into your rings with the margins of error carried through. Demand comes from CDC PLACES dental-visit rates. Growth is measured from the 2020 Census and the Bureau's 2025 county estimates.

The competitor half is enumerated: an adaptive map search that keeps subdividing until Google runs out of results, then address-level dedupe, then corroboration of each office against its website, its reviews, and the federal provider registry. Raw provider lists overstate real offices — we measured 2.49× at five miles — which is why they are enrichment here, never the count.

A dentist-to-population ratio is where most location analysis stops. Both forms appear here, because it is the figure you will have been quoted elsewhere and it deserves a like-for-like line. But residents per office assumes every resident is a dental patient, and measured dental-visit rates across Ohio census tracts run from 19.5% to 82.9%. The grade is driven by active patients per office instead.

When something can't be measured cleanly, the report says so: censored income tracts, unverifiable listings, and any share of a ring with no published dental-visit rate are reported as caveats instead of being absorbed into the numbers.

Read the full methodology — every source, every vintage, every rule

Why this exists

Built by a dentist, selling nothing but the report.

I practice dentistry for a living, and I built this because I wanted it for myself. The figure that decides whether a market has room — how many offices you would actually compete with — turns out to be the hardest one to get right. Federal provider lists are the convenient source, and they name far more offices than are really there: we measured 2.49 times too many at five miles. This report enumerates them instead, one at a time.

So this report has one design rule: every figure traces to a public dataset a lender can check, and the grade is allowed to be bad. The sample on this page is a D in one of the fastest-growing suburbs in America. That is the product working.

Pricing

One address, one report, $29.99.

A practice location is a ten-year lease and a seven-figure loan, so it is natural to assume the analysis behind it has to be expensive. It doesn't. The underlying data is public — anyone can download it — the method was built once, and every report reuses it, so the price can reflect what a report costs to produce rather than what the decision is worth to you.

$29.99 is what it takes to cover the verified map data each report burns, keep the servers on, and stop the pipeline being scraped by bots — cost plus a nominal margin, not a read on what you can afford.

There is no free tier and no partial report, because the demographic half was always most of the value: giving it away would leave a paid product that amounted to a list of competitors. The Scottsdale report is public in full instead — every section, every figure, every caveat, free to read end to end. Read it, then decide whether yours is worth $29.99.

$29.99 per address
  • All 16 sections, on the web and as a PDF
  • Verified competitor census with the evidence for each office
  • Letter grade with every input published
  • Yours to keep — reload or share the link with your lender anytime
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Enter it below. You'll see the matched building on a map and confirm it's the right one before anything is charged — new construction sometimes lands on the nearest known point, and it's worth a look.

Leave off the suite or unit number, and skip practice names, PO boxes and intersections — the address has to be a building the Census can place on a map.

Questions

Fair questions, straight answers.

Where does the data come from?

The Census Bureau (American Community Survey 2020–2024, 2020 Decennial, TIGER geometry, 2025 population estimates), CDC PLACES dental-visit rates, the federal NPI provider registry, and Google Places for discovering and corroborating offices. Every figure in the report names its source and vintage in the appendix.

Why is it $29.99 when similar reports cost hundreds?

Because the inputs are public and the pipeline is software. The expensive part of a site study is a person assembling it by hand; here the person-hours went into the method once, and every report reuses them. So the price reflects what producing one more report actually costs, which is not very much.

What a dental demographics report costs, vendor by vendor

How long does it take?

Usually under a minute, and up to a few for a market nobody has screened before. Confirming the building is instant; the wait after that is the competitor census, which searches the map around your address until it stops finding new offices, then checks each one against its own website. Leave the tab open — the report is saved to a link you keep.

Can I show it to my bank?

That's what the PDF is for: page numbers, a navigable outline, and a sources appendix citing the public dataset behind every figure, so a loan officer can check any number independently.

What does the report not do?

It won't pick your suite, model your production, or predict the future — the growth figures are measured history, clearly dated, not projections. It screens the market; the decision stays yours. And if enumeration hits a coverage gap, the report says so rather than pretending completeness.

Is my search private?

Yes. Addresses you screen are not published, sold, or shared. The only public report is the Scottsdale sample on this page.