Child care statistics
Figures from 124,532 licensed child care programs in 20 states, as recorded by each state's licensing agency and read from program websites and Google. Every number here can be traced to a listing.
How many licensed daycares, preschools and home daycares each state has, and the share of home-based care, from state licence registers.
Read the numbers →Daycare tuition transparencyThe share of child care programs that publish tuition on their own website, by state and metro, and the median published price by age group.
Read the numbers →Daycare inspection violationsHow common state inspection violations are at licensed daycare centers, the median per center, the share with none, and the standards cited most often.
Read the numbers →Licensed capacity, infant places and subsidyLicensed child care capacity by state, infant places where the state records them, and the share of programs that accept child care subsidy.
Read the numbers →Cities with the most licensed child careThe metro areas with the most licensed daycares, preschools and home daycares, with Google rating coverage and published tuition.
Read the numbers →Tuition by metroMedian published full-time tuition by metro area and age group.
Read the numbers →Programs by state
Licensed programs on the state register, all types. Click a state for its page.
Source: state child care licence registers, program websites and Google business profiles as held by Preschool Index, synced September 2026. Statistics use every licensed program on record, including listings not yet released.
Journalists and researchers may quote these figures with attribution to Preschool Index and a link. Questions about the data go to the editors; how the data is built is on the methodology page.