What Daycare Costs

State guide · 2022 official data

Childcare costs in Vermont

Compare a typical county, then find the county where care is provided.

ZIPs can cross county lines. We’ll show the matching counties. This site covers 500 counties; other ZIP matches show their coverage status.

A typical county in Vermont

Unweighted medians of available county medians across the full source. These are not the prices paid by a typical resident or pooled provider medians.

No prices reported in this source

The 2022 NDCP does not provide usable county prices for Vermont. This does not mean care is free. We do not invent estimates or substitute another state's prices.

Vermont county pages

0 county pages in the national 500-county launch set, ordered by source-vintage population. The statewide benchmarks above use all available counties, not just these pages.

County pages cannot be built without source prices.

What this means

Use the same age group and care setting when comparing costs. A statewide typical-county figure can hide substantial local differences. CPI-adjusted figures apply national inflation to 2022 prices; they are not new local observations.

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