Number of ham radio licenses in the US by class and state
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This breaks the number of current FCC-issued US #HamRadio licenses by state and license class.
This data is obtained by scraping the ARRL's FCC License Counts page, which is in turn based on data published by the FCC.
Because this data will change over time, I included both the data in JSON format and a Python script to obtain the data. I update the JSON data when I think about it, but it's better to use the script to get the data yourself if you need it to be up to date.
Scraper program
#!/usr/bin/env python3
# ham_stats.py - get statistics on US amateur radio licenses by state and class
#
# Copyright 2023 Samuel Sloniker KJ7RRV
#
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# INDIRECT, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM
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import json
import datetime
import requests
import bs4
page = requests.get("http://www.arrl.org/fcc-license-counts")
soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page.text, features="lxml")
date = datetime.datetime.strptime(
soup.find(id="content").find("em").text.split(" ")[-1], "%d-%b-%Y"
).strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
classes = [cell.text for cell in soup.find("tr")][1:]
table_data = {
row.find("td").text.replace("*", ""): {
classes[number]: int("0" + cell.text)
for number, cell in enumerate(row.find_all("td")[1:])
}
for row in soup.find_all("tr")[1:]
}
print(json.dumps({"date": date, "data": table_data}))
Current data as of April 19, 2023
{"date": "2023-10-19", "data": {"Alabama": {"Novice": 67, "Tech": 5445, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3158, "Advanced": 537, "Extra": 2882, "Total": 12089}, "Alaska": {"Novice": 15, "Tech": 1565, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 887, "Advanced": 147, "Extra": 661, "Total": 3275}, "Arizona": {"Novice": 112, "Tech": 11136, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5121, "Advanced": 1002, "Extra": 4565, "Total": 21936}, "Arkansas": {"Novice": 39, "Tech": 4107, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1960, "Advanced": 312, "Extra": 1616, "Total": 8034}, "California": {"Novice": 648, "Tech": 58946, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 19532, "Advanced": 3434, "Extra": 15521, "Total": 98081}, "Colorado": {"Novice": 90, "Tech": 10653, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 4555, "Advanced": 708, "Extra": 3748, "Total": 19754}, "Connecticut": {"Novice": 121, "Tech": 3122, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1891, "Advanced": 387, "Extra": 1686, "Total": 7207}, "Delaware": {"Novice": 20, "Tech": 768, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 509, "Advanced": 86, "Extra": 416, "Total": 1799}, "District of Columbia": {"Novice": 4, "Tech": 254, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 114, "Advanced": 20, "Extra": 118, "Total": 510}, "Florida": {"Novice": 437, "Tech": 18293, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 11839, "Advanced": 2533, "Extra": 9971, "Total": 43073}, "Georgia": {"Novice": 110, "Tech": 8791, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 4971, "Advanced": 829, "Extra": 4101, "Total": 18802}, "Guam": {"Novice": 1, "Tech": 104, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 50, "Advanced": 8, "Extra": 102, "Total": 265}, "Hawaii": {"Novice": 29, "Tech": 2030, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 770, "Advanced": 146, "Extra": 687, "Total": 3662}, "Idaho": {"Novice": 28, "Tech": 6483, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2535, "Advanced": 246, "Extra": 1618, "Total": 10910}, "Illinois": {"Novice": 257, "Tech": 8576, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5290, "Advanced": 1010, "Extra": 4386, "Total": 19519}, "Indiana": {"Novice": 168, "Tech": 7240, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 4148, "Advanced": 717, "Extra": 3179, "Total": 15452}, "Iowa": {"Novice": 55, "Tech": 2987, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1685, "Advanced": 403, "Extra": 1493, "Total": 6623}, "Kansas": {"Novice": 70, "Tech": 3381, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1936, "Advanced": 289, "Extra": 1535, "Total": 7211}, "Kentucky": {"Novice": 72, "Tech": 4573, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2546, "Advanced": 408, "Extra": 2025, "Total": 9624}, "Louisiana": {"Novice": 60, "Tech": 2623, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1689, "Advanced": 335, "Extra": 1354, "Total": 6061}, "Maine": {"Novice": 38, "Tech": 1853, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1261, "Advanced": 213, "Extra": 1107, "Total": 4472}, "Maryland": {"Novice": 100, "Tech": 4768, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2811, "Advanced": 541, "Extra": 2662, "Total": 10882}, "Massachusetts": {"Novice": 147, "Tech": 5746, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3487, "Advanced": 661, "Extra": 3275, "Total": 13316}, "Michigan": {"Novice": 176, "Tech": 9764, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5349, "Advanced": 988, "Extra": 4675, "Total": 20952}, "Minnesota": {"Novice": 108, "Tech": 5280, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2970, "Advanced": 600, "Extra": 2509, "Total": 11467}, "Mississippi": {"Novice": 23, "Tech": 2174, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1359, "Advanced": 223, "Extra": 1262, "Total": 5041}, "Missouri": {"Novice": 98, "Tech": 7503, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3866, "Advanced": 637, "Extra": 3079, "Total": 15183}, "Montana": {"Novice": 27, "Tech": 2244, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1172, "Advanced": 171, "Extra": 821, "Total": 4435}, "Nebraska": {"Novice": 28, "Tech": 1697, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1038, "Advanced": 221, "Extra": 752, "Total": 3736}, "Nevada": {"Novice": 37, "Tech": 4505, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1888, "Advanced": 318, "Extra": 1527, "Total": 8275}, "New Hampshire": {"Novice": 52, "Tech": 2437, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1489, "Advanced": 261, "Extra": 1480, "Total": 5719}, "New Jersey": {"Novice": 196, "Tech": 5944, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3232, "Advanced": 710, "Extra": 3072, "Total": 13154}, "New Mexico": {"Novice": 27, "Tech": 3256, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1469, "Advanced": 272, "Extra": 1332, "Total": 6356}, "New York": {"Novice": 400, "Tech": 11825, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 6805, "Advanced": 1363, "Extra": 5923, "Total": 26316}, "North Carolina": {"Novice": 145, "Tech": 10303, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5876, "Advanced": 1018, "Extra": 5131, "Total": 22473}, "North Dakota": {"Novice": 10, "Tech": 743, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 419, "Advanced": 63, "Extra": 300, "Total": 1535}, "Ohio": {"Novice": 319, "Tech": 12255, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 7404, "Advanced": 1294, "Extra": 6107, "Total": 27379}, "Oklahoma": {"Novice": 44, "Tech": 5003, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2527, "Advanced": 376, "Extra": 1985, "Total": 9935}, "Oregon": {"Novice": 101, "Tech": 11190, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 4967, "Advanced": 707, "Extra": 3578, "Total": 20543}, "Pennsylvania": {"Novice": 276, "Tech": 10644, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 6351, "Advanced": 1293, "Extra": 5579, "Total": 24143}, "Puerto Rico": {"Novice": 100, "Tech": 2917, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1195, "Advanced": 172, "Extra": 702, "Total": 5086}, "Rhode Island": {"Novice": 21, "Tech": 837, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 486, "Advanced": 90, "Extra": 460, "Total": 1894}, "South Carolina": {"Novice": 59, "Tech": 4690, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 2732, "Advanced": 471, "Extra": 2361, "Total": 10313}, "South Dakota": {"Novice": 16, "Tech": 887, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 598, "Advanced": 116, "Extra": 485, "Total": 2102}, "Tennessee": {"Novice": 112, "Tech": 9281, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5196, "Advanced": 813, "Extra": 4372, "Total": 19774}, "Texas": {"Novice": 293, "Tech": 26659, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 13308, "Advanced": 2289, "Extra": 11236, "Total": 53785}, "Utah": {"Novice": 35, "Tech": 12721, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3267, "Advanced": 307, "Extra": 2133, "Total": 18463}, "Vermont": {"Novice": 14, "Tech": 973, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 526, "Advanced": 103, "Extra": 496, "Total": 2112}, "Virgin Islands": {"Novice": 0, "Tech": 117, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 71, "Advanced": 10, "Extra": 53, "Total": 251}, "Virginia": {"Novice": 179, "Tech": 9406, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 5353, "Advanced": 935, "Extra": 4804, "Total": 20677}, "Washington": {"Novice": 187, "Tech": 18746, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 8128, "Advanced": 1136, "Extra": 5717, "Total": 33914}, "West Virginia": {"Novice": 41, "Tech": 3054, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 1444, "Advanced": 213, "Extra": 1244, "Total": 5996}, "Wisconsin": {"Novice": 93, "Tech": 4802, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 3217, "Advanced": 561, "Extra": 2553, "Total": 11226}, "Wyoming": {"Novice": 10, "Tech": 1014, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 646, "Advanced": 114, "Extra": 471, "Total": 2255}, "Other": {"Novice": 1, "Tech": 284, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 95, "Advanced": 7, "Extra": 201, "Total": 588}, "TOTAL": {"Novice": 5916, "Tech": 376599, "Tech-Plus": 0, "General": 187188, "Advanced": 32824, "Extra": 155108, "Total": 757635}}}