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In-Home Daycares in Missouri

An in-home daycare is a licensed family child care home: the provider looks after a small group of children in their own home.

in-home daycares listed
568
towns
208
towns have their own in-home daycares page
55
of all Missouri daycares
22%

Map of Missouri: 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 Missouri

The typical licensed capacity of a Missouri in-home daycare
10 children
The median capacity on 568 Missouri home daycare licenses. Ask how many children come on a usual day and their ages.
group or large family homes
107
Missouri licenses two kinds of home daycare: family homes (461 listed), where one provider cares for a small group, and group or large homes (107), with an assistant and more children.

Missouri

Largest towns for in-home daycares in Missouri

St Louis66 in-home daycaresKansas City43 in-home daycaresColumbia28 in-home daycaresSikeston14 in-home daycaresSpringfield13 in-home daycaresFlorissant12 in-home daycaresBlue Springs9 in-home daycaresRaytown8 in-home daycaresSt Joseph8 in-home daycaresJefferson City7 in-home daycaresO Fallon6 in-home daycaresBoonville5 in-home daycares

Programs

Programs in Missouri

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 daycares2,614
Take infants1,708
Child care centers2,046
Accept subsidy69
In-home daycares568
Christian & church daycares228
Montessori schools36
Preschools & pre-K2,217
24-hour daycare69
Night daycare1,980
Early morning daycare2,184
Part-time daycare135
Drop-in daycare17
After-school care2,194
Bilingual daycare11
Head Start207

The Missouri state record

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Childhood licenses daycares in Missouri.

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 2023
Cited rules
Each cited rule, in the state's own wording
Search the Missouri state records

Before you enroll

Choosing an in-home daycare in Missouri

  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.

Missouri

Cost, inspections and ratios in Missouri

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

A to Z

All 208 Missouri towns with in-home daycares, A to Z

A6 towns
B20 towns
C19 towns
D6 towns
E5 towns
F11 towns
G7 towns
H14 towns
I3 towns
J4 towns
K8 towns
L14 towns
M17 towns
N4 towns
O3 towns
P16 towns
R6 towns
S23 towns
T5 towns
U2 towns
V2 towns
W12 towns
Z1 town

Nearby

Nearby states

Illinois5,651 in-home daycaresIowa1,644 in-home daycaresNebraska1,508 in-home daycaresOklahoma1,234 in-home daycaresTennessee428 in-home daycaresKentucky204 in-home daycaresArkansas188 in-home daycaresKansas43 in-home daycares

Questions

Questions about in-home daycares in Missouri

How many in-home daycares are in Missouri?

568 in-home daycares are listed in 208 Missouri towns. Street addresses are not shown for home daycares. The provider shares the address with families, so call to arrange a visit.

Which Missouri town has the most in-home daycares?

St Louis, with 66 listed. Next are Kansas City (43) and Columbia (28).

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 Missouri?

It depends on the license type and the children's ages. The typical Missouri home daycare license here is for 10 children; each listing shows its own licensed capacity.

Who licenses daycares in Missouri?

Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education, Office of Childhood licenses daycares in Missouri. It publishes its inspections and the rules it cited, and we copy them onto each listing.