Eye care practices in Seattle: market data

What stands out

These come out of the numbers rather than from any judgement we made. Each one either compares Seattle with the other markets we track or points to something uncommon in the Seattle data itself.

• Optometrist (OD) accounts for 82% of Seattle eye care practices we could classify.
• Only 1 of 90 eye care practices in Seattle list Optician.

How Seattle compares

Each bar shows Seattle against the middle value across the other markets 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.

What we could and could not check

90 eye care practices are in the public records behind this page. 90 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

Open Saturday or Sunday

We have this detail for 58% of the practices here, which is too few to describe the whole area.

Open past 6pm on a weekday

We have this detail for 58% 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 741,440 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.

Eye care practices per 100,000 residents

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.

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 29, 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 Seattle market dataset and link back here.