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Primary medical & veterinary practices in Australia_

As of 4 November 2026, 17,107 primary medical & veterinary practices companies are based in Australia; 155 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most.

As of 4 November 2026 · refreshed daily · counts move as websites, DNS and career sites are re-read.

Companies
17,107
Hiring now
155 · 69 new in 30 d
Largest niche
General practice primary care · 4,554
Top city
Melbourne · 197
Parent market
Health care · 60,828
17,107primary medical & veterinary practices companies in Australia
155hiring today
69opened a role in the last 30 days
20niches inside the segment
02 — Niches, sizes, cities

Primary medical & veterinary practices in Australia, broken down

By niche
companiesshare
General practice primary care
4,55427%
Multispecialty medical clinic
1,73010%
Veterinary clinic small animal
1,5649%
Gynecology obstetrics practice
1,0016%
Orthopedic surgery practice
9896%
General & visceral surgery practice
7835%
Naturopathic integrative medicine
6974%
Aesthetic medicine clinics
6384%
Plastic aesthetic surgery
5893%
Psychiatry mental health clinic
5633%
Other primary medical & veterinary practices
4983%
Diagnostic imaging radiology
4453%
Dermatology practice
4413%
Cardiology practice
3902%
Gastroenterology practice
3782%
By company size
companies · hiring
Self-employed
2,637 · 1
2-10 employees
12,745 · 36
11-50 employees
1,161 · 21
51-200 employees
306 · 39
201-500 employees
118 · 26
501-1000 employees
48 · 7
1001-5000 employees
68 · 14
5001-10000 employees
12 · 7
10,001+ employees
12 · 4
By city
companiesshare
Melbourne
1971%
Haymarket
1771%
Richmond
1441%
East Melbourne
1331%
St Leonards
1161%
Southport
1131%
Darlinghurst
1101%
Greenslopes
1061%
Spring Hill
1041%
Bella Vista
1021%
Malvern
981%
Subiaco
981%
03 — Largest companies

The biggest primary medical & veterinary practices companies in Australia

The largest companies of the segment, by headcount; job boards and portals left out.

17,107 primary medical & veterinary practices companies in Australia.

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04 — What they run

The stack of primary medical & veterinary practices in Australia

From their websites and DNS records, page plumbing left out.

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17,107 primary medical & veterinary practices companies are based in Australia; 155 are hiring right now and Melbourne has the most. (Breaknorm, 4 November 2026, https://breaknorm.co/market/health_care/australia/primary_medical_and_veterinary_practices)
How we know

Read from the source, not self-reported

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  • ClassificationEvery company is classified from its own website into vertical, sub-vertical and leaf with a confidence score; this page counts industry confidence ≥ 0.7 and country confidence ≥ 0.8.
  • Company listRich profiles with a LinkedIn-known headcount only; job boards, directories, portals and non-organisations are left out.
  • HiringOpen roles read hourly from the company's own career system.
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Primary medical & veterinary practices in Australia: questions

How many primary medical & veterinary practices companies are there in Australia?

17,107 with a confident classification, read from their own websites.

What is a sub-vertical?

The middle level of our industry tree: Health care → Primary medical & veterinary practices → leaf niches such as general practice primary care, multispecialty medical clinic, veterinary clinic small animal. Each company carries all three with a confidence score.

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