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In-Home Daycare Near Me

An in-home daycare is a licensed family child care home: the provider looks after a small group of children in their own home. Full-time infant care at a home daycare costs a median of $143 a week in the middle US county (2022).

in-home daycares
82,532
states
47
in California
14,877
in Bronx, NY
3,362

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State license recordInspection records
What puts a daycare on this listThe state license record lists it as a family or group child care home (family child care), where the provider cares for a small group in their own home. Where no state license record is available, its business listing names it a family day care.Street addresses are not shown for home daycares. The provider shares the address with families, so call to arrange a visit.

In-home daycare

What in-home daycare looks like

Infant care at a home daycare, per week, in the middle US county (2022)
$143
The median of 2,584 county medians, from $79 in the lowest county to $408 in the highest.

County prices: U.S. Department of Labor, National Database of Childcare Prices, 2022 (median full-time weekly price).

By state

In-home daycares by state

Pick a state on the map or in the list to see its towns, A to Z.

Map of US states shaded by number of listings. The list of states below links to each state page.

Under 200200+600+1,000+5,000+Not listed yet
Alabama453Alaska170Arizona278Arkansas188California14,877Colorado1,287Connecticut1,783Delaware591District of Columbia90Florida1,151Georgia980Hawaii209Idaho237Illinois5,651Indiana1,465Iowa1,644Kansas43Kentucky204Maine583Maryland3,997Massachusetts5,874Michigan3,151Minnesota5,420Mississippi4Missouri568Montana517Nebraska1,508Nevada156New Hampshire11New Mexico8New York11,811North Carolina999North Dakota20Ohio1,796Oklahoma1,234Oregon77Pennsylvania1,516Rhode Island41South Carolina688South Dakota277Tennessee428Texas4,711Utah843Vermont399Virginia1,528West Virginia701Wisconsin2,222Wyoming143
Top 10 states
Top 10 statesListed
California14,877
New York11,811
Massachusetts5,874
Illinois5,651
Minnesota5,420
Texas4,711
Maryland3,997
Michigan3,151
Wisconsin2,222
Ohio1,796
In-home daycares listed per state, October 2026.

Towns

Largest towns

Only towns with 3 or more have their own in-home daycares page.

Bronx, NY3,362 in-home daycaresChicago, IL1,572 in-home daycaresBrooklyn, NY1,545 in-home daycaresMilwaukee, WI1,218 in-home daycaresLos Angeles, CA693 in-home daycaresNew York, NY687 in-home daycaresSan Diego, CA631 in-home daycaresBaltimore, MD568 in-home daycaresHouston, TX551 in-home daycaresCincinnati, OH462 in-home daycaresPhiladelphia, PA452 in-home daycaresRochester, NY450 in-home daycaresLawrence, MA447 in-home daycaresSan Jose, CA401 in-home daycaresSacramento, CA393 in-home daycaresSpringfield, MA389 in-home daycaresWorcester, MA353 in-home daycaresOmaha, NE330 in-home daycaresSanta Maria, CA320 in-home daycaresIndianapolis, IN304 in-home daycaresSan Francisco, CA297 in-home daycaresDes Moines, IA274 in-home daycaresEl Cajon, CA268 in-home daycaresTampa, FL261 in-home daycares

Before you enroll

Choosing an in-home daycare

  1. 1

    Ask who else is in the home

    Ask who lives in the home and who helps with the children. Many states require background checks for adults living in a licensed home.

  2. 2

    Ask about backup care

    With one provider, a sick day or vacation closes the daycare. Ask how many days a year they close and what families do then.

  3. 3

    Ask about the group

    Ask how many children come each day and their ages. A home daycare often mixes babies and school-age children in one group.

  4. 4

    Check the license record

    Open the daycare's page here to see its license type, capacity and the state's inspection record, where we hold them.

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Questions

Questions about in-home daycares

How many home daycares are listed?

Over 80,000 home daycares are listed across 47 states and DC, most of them from each state's license records.

What is the difference between in-home daycare and family child care?

They are the same thing. State licenses call it a family child care home (or a group or large family home when there is an assistant): a provider caring for a small group of children in their own home.

Why is there no street address?

An in-home daycare is the provider's own home. We show the town and ZIP code only; the provider shares the address with families.

How much does a home daycare cost?

It varies by county. In the middle US county, home daycares charge a median $143 a week for infants and $131 a week for preschool-age children (U.S. Department of Labor, 2022). Each town page shows its own county's median.

Are home daycares licensed?

Most here are on their state's child care license record. Open any of those for its license and, where the state publishes it, the inspection record. The others, where no state license record is available, come from public business listings; their pages say that no license record is matched yet.