Research
Scottsdale, AZ — Eye care practices per 100,000 residents is the highest of 20 Arizona markets we measure
We measured 66 eye care practices in Scottsdale serving 242,169 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.
Eye care practices per 100,000 residents: 27.3
That is the highest of the 20 Arizona markets we measure.
Eye care practices counted here divided by the town's own population, expressed per 100,000 residents. Eye care practices are counted where they sit, and people routinely drive to the next town, so a town centre surrounded by suburbs reads high and the suburbs read low. Read it as how concentrated eye care practices are in this town, not how easy it is for residents to be seen.
Open Saturday or Sunday: 24%
That is 9 points below the 33% typical of the 4 other Arizona markets we measure.
Share of eye care practices whose published hours include Saturday or Sunday, out of the eye care practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 10 of 41. We could check 62% of Scottsdale eye care practices for this.
Half of all eye care practices sit in 3 of 9 ZIP codes
18 of them are in 85260 alone, out of the 66 we could place.
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
- 66 eye care practices with a Scottsdale address in the federal provider registry. 66 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 242,169, 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.