US Optometry Licenses — Optometrists

29,000+ optometry licenses from official state registries — licensed optometrists from Illinois and Delaware. Every state that publishes its full license roster through an official data feed gets added as we find it - no request needed.

Who this is for

• Eyewear & lens brands — licensed optometrists are the customer universe; filter by city to build sales territories.
• Practice groups & private-equity roll-ups — optometry is actively consolidating; the roster is the acquisition-prospect map.
• Recruiters & staffing firms — the new licenses filter surfaces newly licensed ODs the week they're licensed.
• Credentialing teams — bulk license verification with disciplinary flags against the official state record.

What you get

One normalized record per license: name, license number, category, city, status, issue and expiration dates, computed expires_in_days, is_expiring_soon, is_new_license, and ever_disciplined flags. Export to Excel, CSV, or JSON, or pull on a schedule via API.

One schema across every state

Every licence roster in this catalogue delivers the same columns, in the same order, meaning the same thing — whichever state or profession the records came from. Stack this dataset on top of any other KempData roster and the columns line up.

That takes real work. Illinois writes a lapsed licensee as NOT RENEWED in block capitals; Delaware writes the identical situation as Delinquent. Both arrive here as status: "lapsed". Names arrive SHOUTING and glued together; they leave as full_name, first_name, middle_name, last_name in proper case. Dates are MM/DD/YYYY, with an _iso twin for spreadsheets and imports.

The state's own word is never thrown away. Every translated value ships beside a *_raw twin — status_raw, credential_raw, name_raw — holding the source's exact string, so you can always check our work or apply your own rules. status_basis tells you whether the standing is the state's published fact or computed from the expiration date.

lapsed is worth knowing about. It is the recall pool: people who held the licence, let it run out, and can renew. When you need experienced people in a hurry, that is the list to call.

Full column reference: docs/SCHEMA.md in the source repository.

Data source & fair use

Official state open-data APIs: the Illinois IDFPR professional-licensing roster and the Delaware Division of Professional Regulation roster — public records the states publish for exactly this use. No scraping; paged, rate-limit-respecting requests.

Support

Questions answered fast — usually within hours. Want a profession or license category we don't cover yet? Open an issue and name it - new license products get built in the order people ask.