Appraisal Statistics Nationwise
Chase Pursley is the author of this article and the compiler of the statistical information.
I decided to pull down the ASC hashtag#appraiserlicensing data which has exactly 91,291 records and analyze them. As you all are aware of by now, government data is really messy and varies wildly. So I converted the CSV into SQL and spent some time deduplicating and cleaning it up then splitting into appraisers and licenses (as many are licensed in multiple states). The data is nowhere near perfect, but thought y'all would still find it interesting: posted by Chase Pursley on LinkedIn.
General Statistics
Total Appraisers: 61,379
Total Licenses: 91,273
Average Licenses per Appraiser: 1.49
License Distribution
Certified Residential: 44,516 (48.77% of all licenses)
Certified General: 40,225 (44.07% of all licenses)
Licensed Residential: 6,532 (7.16% of all licenses)
Multiple Licenses
Appraisers with Multiple Licenses: 12,582 (20.5% of all appraisers)
License Count Distribution:
1 license: 48,797 appraisers (79.5%)
2 licenses: 7,654 appraisers (12.5%)
3 licenses: 2,227 appraisers (3.6%)
4 licenses: 894 appraisers (1.5%)
5+ licenses: 1,807 appraisers (2.9%)
Maximum licenses for a single appraiser: 51 (4 appraisers have this many)
US Geographic Distribution
Top 10 States by Appraiser Count:
California (CA): 6,686
Florida (FL): 4,653
New York (NY): 2,287
Illinois (IL): 2,242
North Carolina (NC): 2,159
Georgia (GA): 2,143
Pennsylvania (PA): 1,989
Ohio (OH): 1,950
Colorado (CO): 1,881