# US Independent Pharmacies — U.S. location dataset

All 43,227 locations in the U.S., as one CSV: 23 fields per record, 52 states, file built October 18, 2026. $89 one-time, with up to 10 real rows free before you buy.

Canonical URL: https://locationlists.com/data/independent-pharmacy-list

43,227 independently owned US pharmacies, filtered out of the national provider registry by removing every corporate chain location. Independents are where local buying authority actually sits: the owner is usually the pharmacist, decisions are made in the store rather than at a head office, and the switching costs that lock in chain accounts do not apply. That makes them the primary market for wholesalers competing for primary supplier status, for pharmacy management and point-of-sale software, for compounding, adherence packaging and clinical service programs, and for the buyers consolidating independent pharmacy into regional groups. Franchise-banner stores such as Health Mart and Good Neighbor are flagged rather than excluded, because they are independently owned even though they buy through a program. Every record carries the national provider identifier and the practice address.

## The figures

- Records: 43,227 locations
- States: 52
- Coverage: U.S.
- Fields: 23
- Price: $89 one-time, CSV download, commercial license (https://locationlists.com/license)
- File built on October 18, 2026. Rebuilt weekly on an automatic schedule.
- File last modified: 2026-10-18

The file has all 43,227 locations across 52 states in one download. Building the same list by searching one area at a time tends to miss places, and a missed place looks like a gap in coverage that is not really there.

## Fields

- `name`: Business or facility name
- `dbaName`
- `npi`: National Provider Identifier of the registered organization
- `chainStatus`
- `chainName`: Parent organization as declared to the source; blank means not declared, not independent
- `address`: Street address
- `city`: City
- `state`: Two-letter state code
- `zip`: ZIP code
- `country`: Country code
- `phone`: Phone number where published
- `licenseNumber`: State license number
- `pharmacyType`
- `source`: Which source the record came from
- `sourceUrl`: The public source this row came from
- `latitude`: GPS latitude where published
- `longitude`: GPS longitude where published
- `geo_precision`
- `county`: County, where the source publishes it
- `county_fips`
- `county_note`
- `address_quality`
- `zip4`

## What we did to this data

Unified 922 city spellings, corrected 40 misspelled city names, shortened 37,341 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 43,134 listings, added the county to 43,134 listings, flagged 865 incomplete addresses and measured 43,227 rows. Rebuilt October 18, 2026 from npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov.

## How complete the key fields are

phone 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 23 columns are filled on at least half the rows.

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## The same dataset, for machines

- Record as JSON: https://locationlists.com/data/independent-pharmacy-list/dataset.json
- Free sample, up to 10 real rows: https://locationlists.com/data/independent-pharmacy-list/sample.csv or https://locationlists.com/data/independent-pharmacy-list/sample.json
- Buy link (opens Stripe Checkout): https://locationlists.com/data/independent-pharmacy-list/buy

## Questions

### How is independence determined?

By exclusion. Every organization name is matched against the corporate chains and what remains is independent. Franchise banners are flagged separately, since a banner store is independently owned and is usually still a valid prospect.

### Are franchise-banner stores in this file?

Yes, and they are marked. Excluding them would remove thousands of independently owned pharmacies; lumping them in unmarked would hide that they already have a supply relationship. Flagging lets you make the call.

### Does it include mail order and specialty?

The registry includes them and the pharmacy type column identifies them where it is published, so you can filter to retail only if that is what you want.

### How is this data cleaned?

Every rebuild runs the same steps and counts what each one changed. For the current file, rebuilt October 18, 2026 from npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov: Merged 0 duplicate listings that had the same business name, street address and ZIP code, keeping every filled-in detail from both (October 18, 2026). Unified 922 city names written more than one way within the same ZIP code (for example with and without a space or an abbreviation) to the US Census Bureau spelling (October 18, 2026). Corrected 40 misspelled city names to the US Census Bureau place name for their ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Shortened 37,341 ZIP codes to the five-digit code every address filter expects, keeping the delivery-route segment in a column of its own (October 18, 2026). Added map coordinates to 43,134 listings that had none, from the US Census Bureau address geocoder or, where the street address could not be matched, the centre of the ZIP code (October 18, 2026). Set the county and its federal county code on 43,134 listings, matched to the US Census Bureau county list from the county the source records, the listing's map point, or its ZIP code area (October 18, 2026). Checked every map point against the state in its address and re-placed 0 points that fell outside that state (October 18, 2026). Flagged 865 addresses that are incomplete, a PO box, or missing a house number, in an address quality column (October 18, 2026). Checked that the row count, state count and field completeness published for this file were measured from the file itself (October 18, 2026).

### Isn't this free on npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov?

The underlying records are public on npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov. What you pay for is the work between that public release and this file: unified 922 city spellings, corrected 40 misspelled city names, shortened 37,341 ZIP codes, added coordinates to 43,134 listings, added the county to 43,134 listings, flagged 865 incomplete addresses and measured 43,227 rows, and a fresh rebuild every week. The current file was rebuilt October 18, 2026 from npiregistry.cms.hhs.gov. Doing it yourself means downloading the full release, repeating each of those steps, and repeating them again every time the source updates.

### How complete is each field?

Measured on every row of the current file, the share of rows that carry each key field: phone 100%, street address 100%, city 100%, state 100%, ZIP code 100%, latitude 100%, longitude 100%. 21 of 23 columns are filled on at least half the rows.