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In-Home Daycares in Connecticut

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 $245 a week in the middle Connecticut county (2022).

in-home daycares listed
1,783
towns
164
towns have their own in-home daycares page
92
of all Connecticut daycares
55%

Map of Connecticut: each dot is a town with in-home daycares, sized by how many are listed

In-home daycare
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 in Connecticut

The typical licensed capacity of a Connecticut in-home daycare
9 children
The median capacity on 1,782 Connecticut home daycare licenses. Ask how many children come on a usual day and their ages.
group or large family homes
28
Connecticut licenses two kinds of home daycare: family homes (1,754 listed), where one provider cares for a small group, and group or large homes (28), with an assistant and more children.
Infant care at a home daycare, per week, in the middle Connecticut county (2022)
$245
The median of 8 county medians, from $200 in the lowest county to $300 in the highest.

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

Connecticut

Largest towns for in-home daycares in Connecticut

Waterbury220 in-home daycaresBridgeport144 in-home daycaresNew Haven107 in-home daycaresDanbury91 in-home daycaresHartford88 in-home daycaresWest Haven75 in-home daycaresStamford70 in-home daycaresStratford59 in-home daycaresNorwalk55 in-home daycaresMeriden43 in-home daycaresNew Britain40 in-home daycaresEast Hartford37 in-home daycares

Programs

Programs in Connecticut

Counts come from the state record and what each daycare says it offers. A daycare without a tag may still offer the program; ask.

ProgramListed
All daycares3,228
Take infants856
Child care centers1,445
Accept subsidy95
In-home daycares1,783
Christian & church daycares96
Montessori schools40
Preschools & pre-K1,149
Night daycare313
Early morning daycare1,012
Weekend daycare152
Part-time daycare165
Drop-in daycare21
After-school care1,028
Bilingual daycare24
Head Start53

The Connecticut state record

Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, Division of Licensing licenses daycares in Connecticut.

License list
The state's public list of licensed child care
Ages served
The ages on each license
Inspections
Every visit the state publishes back to 1990
Cited rules
Each cited rule, in the state's own wording
Search the Connecticut state records

Before you enroll

Choosing an in-home daycare in Connecticut

  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.

Connecticut

Cost, inspections and ratios in Connecticut

Daycare cost in ConnecticutWeekly prices by age and countyWhat Connecticut inspectors citeThe rules cited most, and what they meanStaff-to-child ratios in ConnecticutHow many children each adult may care forTour checklist for ConnecticutQuestions to ask when you visit

A to Z

All 164 Connecticut towns with in-home daycares, A to Z

A4 towns
B16 towns
C8 towns
D6 towns
E11 towns
F2 towns
G6 towns
H6 towns
I1 town
J1 town
K1 town
L3 towns
M12 towns
N20 towns
O5 towns
P9 towns
Q1 town
R3 towns
S17 towns
T6 towns
U2 towns
V3 towns
W21 towns

Nearby

Nearby states

New York11,811 in-home daycaresMassachusetts5,874 in-home daycaresRhode Island41 in-home daycares

Questions

Questions about in-home daycares in Connecticut

How many in-home daycares are in Connecticut?

1,783 in-home daycares are listed in 164 Connecticut towns. Street addresses are not shown for home daycares. The provider shares the address with families, so call to arrange a visit.

Which Connecticut town has the most in-home daycares?

Waterbury, with 220 listed. Next are Bridgeport (144) and New Haven (107).

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.

How many children can a home daycare have in Connecticut?

It depends on the license type and the children's ages. The typical Connecticut home daycare license here is for 9 children; each listing shows its own licensed capacity.

Who licenses daycares in Connecticut?

Connecticut Office of Early Childhood, Division of Licensing licenses daycares in Connecticut. It publishes its inspections and the rules it cited, and we copy them onto each listing.