Research
Chandler, AZ — Half of all eye care practices sit in 2 of 6 ZIP codes
We measured 35 eye care practices in Chandler serving 278,123 residents, and 3 findings stood out against the other markets we measure.
What we set out to measure
Who can examine your eyes here, and who can operate on them?
Every eye care practice below comes from the federal provider registry, counted whether or not it appears in this site’s directory. The findings are what the numbers came back with, not a view we formed first and then looked for support for.
Half of all eye care practices sit in 2 of 6 ZIP codes
11 of them are in 85224 alone, out of the 35 we could place.
Optometrist (OD): 94%
That is the share of Chandler eye care practices we could classify.
Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
Ophthalmologist (MD/DO): 3 of 35 eye care practices
That is 9% of the eye care practices we counted in Chandler.
Practices registered under each provider type in the federal registry. Optometrists handle exams, glasses, and contacts; ophthalmologists are physicians who also perform eye surgery.
What this does not tell you
- 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.
How this was measured
- What was counted
- 35 eye care practices with a Chandler address in the federal provider registry. 35 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 278,123, US Census Bureau acs5-2023.
- Measured
- August 30, 2026. We keep every earlier measurement rather than overwriting it, so a later report can say what changed.
- How complete this is
- 100% of the measures this vertical tracks had enough coverage to report here. The rest are withheld rather than estimated, and are listed on the data page.
- Method version
- 1.0
Where the records come from
- NPPES / NPI Registry — eye-care organizations — 7,415 records, retrieved August 26, 2026.