Child Care State Fact Sheets

Child Care in America Today

Nearly 11 million children under age 5 are in some type of child care setting every week. On average, the children of working mothers spend 35 hours a week in such care. About one-third of these children are in multiple child care arrangements. Parents have a hard time finding child care, a harder time affording it, and too often it is of dubious quality.

  Child Care in America: 2012 -- National Summary of key data related to child care. 

Child Care in America: 2012 -- Full Book  (National Summary of key data and all state fact sheets)

For individual state fact sheets, click on the states below.