Market data
Eye care practices in New Mexico: market data
We count 170 eye care practices with a New Mexico address in the federal provider registry. Last checked August 26, 2026.
- Eye care practices counted
- 170in a population of 2,114,768
- ZIP codes with at least one eye care practice
- 59
- Eye care practices with a website
- 49%84 of 170
- Median Google rating
- 4.5
What stands out
These come out of the numbers rather than from any judgement we made. Each one either compares New Mexico with the other states we track or points to something uncommon in the New Mexico data itself.
- Median Google rating: 4.5 in New Mexico, the lowest of the 7 states we measure nationwide.
- Half of New Mexico's 170 eye care practices sit in 12 of the 59 ZIP codes where any of them are located, 15 of them in 87109 alone.
How New Mexico compares
Each bar shows New Mexico against the middle value across the other states we measure. A measure with nothing to compare against is left out rather than compared to itself.
Optometry and ophthalmology
Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
Every New Mexico market we measure
3 places with at least one eye care practice on record, largest first.
| Place | Eye care practices | Per 100,000 residents | Population |
|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque | 64 | 11.4 | 562,488 |
| Santa Fe | 17 | 19.3 | 88,224 |
| Las Cruces | 10 | 8.9 | 112,612 |
- Eye care practices
- 64
- Per 100,000 residents
- 11.4
- Population
- 562,488
- Eye care practices
- 17
- Per 100,000 residents
- 19.3
- Population
- 88,224
- Eye care practices
- 10
- Per 100,000 residents
- 8.9
- Population
- 112,612
Change over time
Each point is one measurement of this market. We keep every snapshot rather than overwriting it, so the line reflects the market rather than the last time we happened to look.
- 2026-08-29170
- 2026-08-30170
What we could and could not check
170 eye care practices are in the public records behind this page. 170 of them meet our bar to appear in the directory. Every share above is calculated over the eye care practices we could actually verify, never over the whole market.
Held back for now
- Eye care practices per 100,000 residents
- A per-resident figure for a whole state would imply we have measured every part of it. Our coverage within a state is uneven, so we publish the count and leave the rate to the city pages.
- Open Saturday or Sunday
- We have this detail for 54% of the practices here, which is too few to describe the whole area.
- Open past 6pm on a weekday
- We have this detail for 54% of the practices here, which is too few to describe the whole area.
How these numbers were produced
Counts come from public records for every eye care practice in this area, whether or not it appears in our directory. That gap is the point: a directory that reports only on itself tells you nothing you could not see by browsing it.
Per-resident figures use a population of 2,114,768 from the Census Bureau (acs5-2023).
- Provider type comes from the federal registry rather than from what a practice advertises, so a clinic employing both optometrists and ophthalmologists is counted once.
- Nothing here says whether a practice is accepting new patients, how long the wait is, or which vision plans it takes.
- A surgical practice and a single optical shop each count as one.
Where the records come from
- NPPES / NPI Registry — eye-care organizations — 7,415 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.
What each figure means
- Eye care practices counted
- Every eye care practice in the underlying public registry for this area, whether or not it has a profile on this site.
- ZIP codes with at least one eye care practice
- How many distinct ZIP codes in this area have at least one eye care practice in the registry. A low number next to a high count means the eye care practices sit close together.
- Eye care practices with a website
- Share of eye care practices with a working website on record, out of the eye care practices whose contact details we have checked.
- Median Google rating
- The middle Google rating among eye care practices that have one. Ratings come from Google and reflect reviewer opinion, not any assessment by this site.
- Median Google reviews
- The middle number of Google reviews among eye care practices that have any. A low median usually means a market of smaller or newer eye care practices.
- Optometry and ophthalmology
- Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
Measured August 30, 2026. The oldest source record behind it was retrieved August 26, 2026.
Use this data
Every figure on this page is available as a CSV, one row per measure, each with the sample it was calculated over. Please cite it as the New Mexico market dataset and link back here.