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Media resources: the Botox Obsession Index

The Botox Obsession Index ranks all 50 states on per-capita Botox search activity, local provider and clinic density, and relative Google search interest. A 50-state analysis by Avinity Health. Everything on this page is free to use with attribution.

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Download the full media kitOne ZIP, about 7 MB: the dataset, the national map in both color schemes including editable SVG, the Top 10 and Bottom 10, the demand versus supply graphic, the headshot, and a methodology and fact sheet

Prefer to take files one at a time? Everything in the kit is also linked individually further down, along with a card for each of the 50 states and the live embeddable map.

The story in five facts

  • New York is #1 overall, scoring 84.1 of 100.
  • Colorado is #2 at 84.0, seven hundredths of a point behind New York, and ahead of California (80.9) and Florida (75.6).
  • New York ranks #1 for Botox searches per resident but only #7 for provider and clinic density, the widest gap between demand and supply in the index.
  • Nine of the top 10 are in the West or Northeast. The Midwest has none.
  • Mississippi ranks #50, last on search demand and last on provider and clinic supply.

One more finding: "masseter botox" (jaw Botox) generates an estimated 74,020 searches a month, making it the #2 Botox-related search term measured, behind only "botox" itself.

The Top 10

Scored 0 to 100, combining search demand, providers and clinics, and relative interest, all per resident. Free to republish with attribution.

1New York202.2 searches · 35.0 providers + clinics per 100k84.1
2Colorado183.9 searches · 44.5 providers + clinics per 100k84.0
3California187.4 searches · 39.4 providers + clinics per 100k80.9
4Florida157.4 searches · 44.6 providers + clinics per 100k75.6
5Massachusetts184.9 searches · 35.5 providers + clinics per 100k74.2
6Arizona160.5 searches · 40.5 providers + clinics per 100k69.8
7Washington173.5 searches · 29.8 providers + clinics per 100k60.0
8New Jersey163.4 searches · 29.8 providers + clinics per 100k59.0
9Nevada156.3 searches · 35.1 providers + clinics per 100k58.8
10Connecticut158.0 searches · 33.1 providers + clinics per 100k56.9

All 50 states, with every component score, are in the CSV, and the Top 10 is also a ready-made graphic in the section below.

Graphics

Every graphic carries its source line and is free to republish.

The national map

Two color schemes, matching the two embed options below. Each comes three ways: with the six callouts we chose, with no callouts at all, and as an editable SVG.

Map of the United States shaded by Botox Obsession Index score in the news palette, pale yellow for the lowest scores through deep red for the highest, with New York first, Colorado second, California third, Florida fourth, Arizona sixth and Mississippi fiftieth
News palette. The ramp most newsrooms use. No Avinity brand color.With our callouts:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920No callouts:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920Editable:SVG
The same map of the United States shaded by Botox Obsession Index score in the original palette, pale teal for the lowest scores through deep teal for the highest, with New York first, Colorado second, California third, Florida fourth, Arizona sixth and Mississippi fiftieth
Original palette. The version that runs on the study page.With our callouts:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920No callouts:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920Editable:SVG

If our six callouts are not the states your story is about, build your own: open the map builder, click the states you want, drag each label where it reads best, pick either color scheme, and export as SVG or PNG with the source line already on it.

Prefer to work in your own tools? Take the version with no callouts and annotate it, or open the SVG, where every state is a named path carrying its own rank and index score.

Top 10 and bottom 10

Both come in the same two color schemes as the map, so a ranked bar and the national map can run together without clashing. Shown here in the original; the news versions use the same red ramp as the news map.

Bar chart of the ten highest scoring states on the Botox Obsession Index, New York first at 84.1 through Connecticut tenth at 56.9
The Botox Top 10. Ranked bars, New York through Connecticut.Original palette:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920News palette:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920
Bar chart of the ten lowest scoring states on the Botox Obsession Index, Alaska forty first at 18.8 through Mississippi fiftieth at 0.5
The states least obsessed with Botox. Ranked bars, Alaska through Mississippi.Original palette:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920News palette:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920

Where demand outruns supply

The states where search interest runs furthest ahead of the local provider and clinic market, set out as each state's rank on one measure against its rank on the other.

Table comparing five states' rank for searches per resident against their rank for providers and clinics: New York first and seventh, Virginia eighth and twentieth, Illinois ninth and eighteenth, Washington fifth and fifteenth, Texas fourteenth and twenty first
Where Botox interest runs ahead of supply. Rank against rank, five states.PNG at 2x:1600 × 9001080 × 10801080 × 1920

State cards

One card per state, 1080 × 1080, carrying that state's rank, score and component figures. Pick the state your story is about and download it.

Head to head cards

Eleven neighbor and rival matchups, same format.

Need a matchup that is not here, or a different size? Email info@avinityhealth.com and we will build it.

Embed the interactive map

The map is live, not a picture: readers hover or tap any state to see its rank and score. It is free to embed, carries its own source line, and comes in two color schemes. Pick whichever sits better in your layout.

News palette, pale yellow to deep red

The ramp most newsrooms use for choropleths. No Avinity brand color, so the map reads as data inside your article rather than as a logo.

<iframe src="https://avinityhealth.com/insights/most-botox-obsessed-states/embed?palette=press" width="100%" height="620" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Botox Obsession Index map"></iframe>

Original palette, pale teal to deep teal

The version that runs on the study page.

<iframe src="https://avinityhealth.com/insights/most-botox-obsessed-states/embed" width="100%" height="620" style="border:0" loading="lazy" title="Botox Obsession Index map"></iframe>

Preview either one directly:news palette ororiginal palette. If you need a still image of the map rather than the live version, both palettes are in the graphics section above.

Methodology

Three components. Search demand and provider and clinic supply are converted to rates per 100,000 residents. Relative interest is a Google Trends share-of-search measure and is used as published. Each is normalized 0 to 100, then weighted:

  • Search demand, 50%. Estimated average monthly search volume for 31 Botox-related terms from the Google Ads API, per 100,000 residents.
  • Providers and clinics, 35%. Clinicians listed in the NPPES national registry under relevant medical taxonomy codes, plus skin care clinic locations from the Google Places Aggregate API, combined and expressed per 100,000 residents.
  • Relative interest, 15%. Google Trends.

Where the 31 terms came from. A candidate list of the 50 highest-volume Botox-related searches in Semrush, pulled in August 2026. Google reports state-level data for 31 of them and no separate figure for the rest, typically because it consolidates near-identical phrasings into one canonical term. Nothing was hand-picked in or out at either step.

What Google Trends actually measures. Not a count of searches. It measures what share of a state's total Google searching was about Botox, rescaled so the highest state reads 100.

  • Population is ACS 2024.
  • All figures were pulled on 27 August 2026 and reflect a single measurement period.
  • Full methodology, including the limits, is published on the study page.

Spokesperson

Emily Dawson, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN, Co-founder and Clinical Director of Avinity Health

Emily Dawson, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN
Co-founder and Clinical Director, Avinity Health

Emily Dawson leads Avinity Health's clinical and aesthetics practice and personally treats patients receiving Botox and other aesthetic procedures. She brings more than 15 years of healthcare leadership experience and previously served as Corporate Director of Quality Assurance at Sun Health.

She holds a Doctor of Health Administration from MCPHS University, where she received the Distinguished Student Award, as well as an MBA and a Master of Science in Nursing.

Available to comment on:

  • Why patients seek Botox, and how motivations differ among first-time and repeat patients
  • What first-time patients ask about before treatment
  • How price, access and provider availability can shape patient decisions
  • Emerging Botox treatment interests, including masseter and lower-face applications
  • What search activity can and cannot tell us about actual Botox use
  • How clinicians should interpret differences in Botox interest across states and markets

Emily is available for interviews, written comment, phone interviews and broadcast appearances.

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Quotes you can use

Approved for publication and cleared for the embargo. Please attribute exactly as shown.

On what a per-capita ranking shows

“The states at the top of this list are not the biggest states. They are the states where Botox attention runs highest relative to how many people live there. Colorado beating California is only visible because we divided everything by population before ranking anything.”

Emily Dawson, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN, Co-founder and Clinical Director, Avinity Health

On the gap between demand and supply

“Attention and access do not sit in the same places. New York generates more estimated Botox searches per resident than any other state while ranking seventh for providers and clinics per resident, the widest gap in the index where searching runs ahead of supply. That gap is the most useful thing in the data.”

Emily Dawson, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN, Co-founder and Clinical Director, Avinity Health

On jaw Botox

“The single most surprising number in the study is masseter Botox. It draws an estimated 74,020 searches a month, second only to the word botox itself, ahead of every classic wrinkle term. That tells you what people are curious about, and it is not foreheads.”

Emily Dawson, DHA, MBA, MSN, RN, Co-founder and Clinical Director, Avinity Health

Contact

Press inquiries: info@avinityhealth.com · 480-264-6175. Same-day response during the embargo window.

Download the data

botox-obsession-index-2026.csv: all 50 states with every component score (search per 100,000 residents, providers and clinics per 100,000, relative interest, composite). The ranking can be reproduced from this file. The District of Columbia is included in the file but reported separately from the state ranking; the methodology on the study page explains why.

Attribution

Please credit "the Botox Obsession Index, an analysis by Scottsdale-based Avinity Health" and link to the study page. The embed and all graphics carry the credit automatically.

About Avinity Health

Avinity Health is a physician-guided longevity, wellness and medical aesthetics practice in Scottsdale, Arizona. The practice provides evidence-informed treatments spanning health optimization, regenerative medicine and aesthetics, with care delivered by licensed clinicians under physician oversight. Avinity Health focuses on combining medical guidance, individualized treatment plans and transparent patient education across its services.