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US Census Tracts and Divisions from 2023 were used to examine differences in socioeconomic characteristics across communities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241737-7\"><jats:title>Exposure<\/jats:title><jats:p>Primary care practices with NPs vs without NPs.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241737-8\"><jats:title>Main Outcomes and Measures<\/jats:title><jats:p>Socioeconomic characteristics of Census Tracts and Block Groups, including racial and ethnic composition, median household income, percentage below the federal poverty level, educational attainment, and the ADI (an ordinal percentile ranking of Census Block Groups from 1 to 100, with 1 being least disadvantaged and 100 being most disadvantaged).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241737-9\"><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>Of 79\u202f743 primary care practices, 42\u202f601 (53.4%) employed NPs in 2023. Practices with NPs, compared with those without, were significantly more likely to be in communities classified as low income (23.3% vs 17.0%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001) and rural (11.9% vs 5.5%; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). On average, these communities had a higher proportion of the population living below the federal poverty level (14.4% [95% CI, 14.3%-14.5%] vs 12.8% [95% CI, 12.7%-12.9%]; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001) and without a high school diploma (19.8% [95% CI, 19.7%-19.9%] vs 18.5% [95% CI, 18.4%-18.6%]; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). Communities with practices with NPs also had significantly higher mean ADI percentiles than communities with practices without NPs (53.3% [95% CI, 53.1%-53.6%] vs 42.5% [95% CI, 42.2%-42.7%]; <jats:italic>P<\/jats:italic>\u2009&amp;amp;lt;\u2009.001). As the number of primary care practices decreased in disadvantaged areas, the proportion of practices with NPs increased. In most US Census Divisions, there were more primary care practices with NPs than without, a difference that was marked in low-income communities.<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec id=\"ab-zoi241737-10\"><jats:title>Conclusions and Relevance<\/jats:title><jats:p>This cross-sectional study of primary care practices in the US found that primary care practices with NPs, compared with those without NPs, were more likely to be located in communities with lower income and educational attainment and greater levels of overall socioeconomic disadvantage. 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