Idaho Falls, ID — Eye care practices per 100,000 residents is the highest of 7 Idaho 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: 39

That is the highest of the 7 Idaho 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.

Median Google reviews: 242

That is 116 higher than the 126 typical of the 17 markets we measure nationwide.

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. We could check 77% of Idaho Falls eye care practices for this.

Open past 6pm on a weekday: 29%

That is 12 points above the 18% typical of the 18 markets we measure nationwide.

Share of eye care practices whose published hours run past 6pm on at least one weekday, out of the eye care practices whose hours we have on record. Measured over 5 of 17. We could check 65% of Idaho Falls eye care practices for this.

Eye care practices with a website: 69%

That is 23 points above the 46% typical of the 110 markets we measure nationwide.

Share of eye care practices with a working website on record, out of the eye care practices whose contact details we have checked. Measured over 18 of 26.

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

26 eye care practices with a Idaho Falls address in the federal provider registry. 26 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.

Residents

66,672, 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.