What Daycare Costs

State guide · 2022 official data

Childcare costs in Wyoming

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 Wyoming

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

Infant · center
$195per week · September 2026 CPI estimate2022 official data: $159 / week21 reporting counties in this stateNational typical county: $214 / week · 2661 counties↓ Lower than the national median
Toddler · center
$170per week · September 2026 CPI estimate2022 official data: $138 / week21 reporting counties in this stateNational typical county: $189 / week · 2663 counties↓ Lower than the national median
Preschool · center
$171per week · September 2026 CPI estimate2022 official data: $139 / week21 reporting counties in this stateNational typical county: $178 / week · 2670 counties≈ About the same as the national median
Infant · home-based
$182per week · September 2026 CPI estimate2022 official data: $147 / week19 reporting counties in this stateNational typical county: $177 / week · 2584 counties≈ About the same as the national median

Prices describe cost, not quality. Ask providers for current quotes.

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Wyoming 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.

No county in this state is among the 500 most populous eligible counties. The full-source state figures above are still available.

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