Research
Houston, TX — Eye care practices with a website: 13%, below the 20% elsewhere
We measured 411 eye care practices in Houston serving 2,300,419 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 with a website: 13%
That is 7 points below the 20% typical of the 53 other Texas markets we measure.
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 52 of 411.
Eye care practices per 100,000 residents: 17.9
That is 4 higher than the 13.9 typical of the 73 other Texas 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.
Half of all eye care practices sit in 19 of 77 ZIP codes
20 of them are in 77024 alone, out of the 411 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
- 411 eye care practices with a Houston address in the federal provider registry. 411 of them meet this site’s bar to appear in the directory; the findings above are measured over all of them.
- Residents
- 2,300,419, 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
- 56% 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.