Chore Provider: how many are there, and how many are in private practice?

National totals

What this specialty covers

An individual who provides home maintenance services required to sustain a safe, sanitary living environment for individuals who because of age or disabilities is unable to perform the activities. These services include heavy household chores such as washing floors, windows, and walls; tacking down loose rugs and tiles; and moving heavy items of furniture in order to provide safe access and egress.

Reading the sole-proprietor share

For this specialty, 2,978 records, or 27.9%, are flagged as sole proprietors in NPPES. That field is self-reported and may indicate an individual business structure, but it is an imperfect proxy for private practice because it does not by itself establish ownership, employment arrangements, independence, or how services are delivered.

By state

New NPI registrations by year

Counts reflect the year each NPI was first issued, among records still active today. The final year is partial: this data covers through 2026-01-11.

Data notes

• The sole-proprietor field is self-reported by the provider in NPPES and is an imperfect proxy for private practice.
• A sole-proprietor count shown as <11 is suppressed: the true value is below 11, which could include zero.
• These are active NPI records with Chore Provider as the primary taxonomy, not necessarily unique people, businesses, or service locations.
• Taxonomy selection and NPPES fields can be incomplete, outdated, or changed by reporting entities.
• Providers are counted once, by their primary taxonomy code only.

Source: CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES) Data Dissemination file, FOIA-disclosable public data under CMS-6060-N. Aggregated by Hero EMR on 2026-08-03; deactivated NPIs excluded; specialty assigned from the primary taxonomy code (NUCC 25.1). Counts below 11 are suppressed. Individual providers are never published. All provider data pages.

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