Make room in the family budget
What does daycare cost near you?
Start with your county’s prices. Compare care settings and work out a budget before calling providers.
Start with the largest counties
20 of our 500 county pages; find the rest through your state or ZIP
- Los Angeles County, CA →Infant center: $257 / week · 2022
- Cook County, IL →Infant center: $278 / week · 2022
- Harris County, TX →Infant center: $185 / week · 2022
- Maricopa County, AZ →Infant center: $270 / week · 2022
- San Diego County, CA →Infant center: $379 / week · 2022
- Orange County, CA →Infant center: $394 / week · 2022
- Miami-Dade County, FL →Infant center: $200 / week · 2022
- Kings County, NY →Infant center: $300 / week · 2022
- Dallas County, TX →Infant center: $194 / week · 2022
- Riverside County, CA →Infant center: $405 / week · 2022
- Queens County, NY →Infant center: $300 / week · 2022
- Clark County, NV →Infant center: $276 / week · 2022
- King County, WA →Infant center: $478 / week · 2022
- San Bernardino County, CA →Infant center: $384 / week · 2022
- Tarrant County, TX →Infant center: $199 / week · 2022
- Bexar County, TX →Infant center: $171 / week · 2022
- Broward County, FL →Infant center: $233 / week · 2022
- Santa Clara County, CA →Infant center: $527 / week · 2022
- Wayne County, MI →Infant center: $177 / week · 2022
- Alameda County, CA →Infant center: $516 / week · 2022
A starting point for real conversations.
Childcare prices vary by age, care setting, schedule and provider. Our comparisons describe cost, not quality. Use the county table and calculator, then ask local providers for current availability and a full fee breakdown.
Sources & data dates
- Prices
- DOL Women’s Bureau NDCP, study year 2022. County estimates from state market-rate surveys; some values are standardized or imputed.
- Inflation
- BLS day care and preschool CPI-U (not seasonally adjusted), September 2026. These are adjusted estimates, not new local observations.
- Income & population
- Census ACS fields distributed in the DOL workbook’s 2022 rows: MFI (family income, DP03) and TOTALPOP (DP05). Income share uses 2022 prices only.
- Retrieved
- 2026-11-03 (DOL); 2026-11-03 (BLS)
- Method
- Units, typical-county benchmarks, ZIP matching and limitations