Eight metro areas with booming populations had recent shortages of at least 500 nurses and saw consistent scarcities for the last three years, according to LinkedIn data.
Those cities are Los Angeles, Dallas, San Diego, Raleigh-Durham, N.C., Orange County, Calif., Colorado Springs, Nashville, Tenn., and San Antonio, Texas. They all reported at least 5.5 percent population growth from April 2010 to July 2017.
Here are the nursing shortages and surpluses for the largest U.S. metro areas as of February 2018.
Surpluses
1. Philadelphia: +489
2. Tampa, Fla.: +280
3. New York City: +204
4. Miami: +140
Shortages
5. Chicago: -3,830
6. Seattle: -2,758
7. Denver: -2,514
8. Los Angeles: -2,229
9. Atlanta: -2,018
10. Dallas: -1,269
11. San Francisco: -1,198
12. Baltimore: -1,025
13. San Diego: - 1,000
14. Houston: -706
15. Boston: -637
16. Phoenix: -493
17. Detroit: -280
18. Minneapolis: -249
19. Washington, D.C.: -139
20. St. Louis: -133