State of Care SM
Child Care Rankings A ranking of the availability, affordability, and quality of child care in every metro area and state in America.
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Table of Contents Introduction and Methodology 4 Major Metro Area Child Care Rankings Top 5 6 Bottom 5 7 Top 10 8 Bottom 10 8 Resources 9 Appendix Major Metro Area Rankings 11 Minor Metro Area Rankings 13 State Rankings 21
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Introduction Welcome to the Local State of Care Index, a ranking of the availability, affordability, and quality of child care in every metro area and state in America.
Methodology Several criteria are used to compute the ranking. Availability Criteria: • Care.com child care providers per child under 10 • Care.com Child Care Center Directory child care centers per child under 10 • Number of Child Care Workers reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics per child under 10 Affordability Criteria: • Care.com Babysitter Pay Calculator base pay as percentage of median household income • Child care worker annual mean wage reported by the Bureau of Labor Statistics as percentage of median household income Quality Criteria: • Care.com child care providers’ average number of years of experience • Percentage of Care.com child care providers with first aid certification • Percentage of Care.com child care providers with CPR certification • State standards for family child care homes • State standards for state sex offender registries • Percentage of child care centers with accreditation (Included in state level rankings only) • Percentage of family child care homes with accreditation (Included in state level rankings only)
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Major Metro Area Child Care Rankings
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Top
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Cities in America for Child Care
1. Boston, MA Availability Rank: 1 • Affordability Rank: 31 • Quality Rank: 12 Boston ranks first for availability and boasts a high ratio of child care providers to children, a high ratio of child care centers to children, and child care providers with a high average number of years of experience. The city also benefits from Massachusetts’ strict standards for family daycares.
2. Seattle, WA Availability Rank: 24 • Affordability Rank: 22 • Quality Rank: 1 Seattle ranks first for quality. It has a high percentage of child care providers with first aid and CPR certification, and the city benefits from Washington state’s strict standards for family daycares and for the state sex offender registry.
3. Denver, CO Availability Rank: 12 • Affordability Rank: 17 • Quality Rank: 3 Denver has a high ratio of child care providers to children and a high percentage of child care providers with first aid and CPR certification. Child care is more affordable in Denver than in Boston or Seattle.
4. Rochester, NY Availability Ranking: 20 • Affordability Rank: 11 • Quality Rank: 9 Rochester has child care providers with a high average number of years of experience.
5. West Palm Beach/Boca Raton, FL Availability Ranking: 15 • Affordability Rank: 37 • Quality Rank: 2 This metro area ranks second for quality. It has child care providers with a high average number of years of experience, and the city benefits from Florida’s strict standards for family daycares.
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Bottom
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Cities in America for Child Care
Out of the cities we surveyed for this report, these are the worst ranking cities for child care in America. All five cities have expensive child care relative to the cities’ median income.
1. New Orleans, LA Availability Rank: 57 • Affordability Rank: 57 • Quality Rank: 52 Weighing in as the worst city in America for Child Care, New Orleans ranks last in our survey for availability and affordability.
2. New York, NY Availability Rank: 6 • Affordability Rank: 56 • Quality Rank: 54 While New York City ranks high for child care availability, it ranks very low for affordability and quality of caregivers.
3. Miami, FL Availability Rank: 32 • Affordability Rank: 55 • Quality Rank: 35 Even though Miami ranks average for child care availability, it is our third worst city for child care affordability.
4. Los Angeles/Long Beach, CA Availability Ranking: 55 • Affordability Rank: 54 • Quality Rank: 31 LA and Long Beach rank pretty low across the board, and they are about average when it comes to child care quality.
5. Pittsburgh, PA Availability Ranking: 23 • Affordability Rank: 51 • Quality Rank: 55 Despite ranking above average for child care availability, Pittsburgh weighs in as our fifth worst city in America for child care due to low affordability and poor quality.
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Top 10 Major Metro Areas Metro Boston, MA-NH Seattle-Bellevue-Everett Denver Rochester West Palm Beach-Boca Raton Phoenix-Mesa Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill San Jose Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI
State
Overall Rank
Availability Rank
Affordability Rank
Quality Rank
MA
1
1
31
12
WA
2
24
22
1
CO
3
12
17
3
NY
4
20
11
9
FL
5
15
37
2
AZ
6
30
20
5
NC
7
16
12
13
CA
8
37
1
36
NC
9
18
28
8
WI
10
11
2
43
State
Overall Rank
Availability Rank
Affordability Rank
Quality Rank
KY
48
41
41
46
TN
49
51
36
47
NJ
50
28
14
57
NJ
51
22
34
56
CA
52
50
49
38
PA
53
23
51
55
CA
54
55
54
31
FL
55
32
55
35
NY
56
6
56
54
LA
57
57
57
52
Bottom 10 Major Metro Areas Metro Louisville, KY-IN Memphis, TN-AR-MS Newark Philadelphia, PA-NJ Riverside-San Bernardino Pittsburgh Los Angeles-Long Beach Miami New York New Orleans
See appendix for complete metro area and state rankings.
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Resources Care.com’s Babysitter Pay Calculator - http://www.care.com/child-care-babysitter-pay-calculator-p1140. html Care.com’s Child Care Center Directory - http://www.care.com/day-care-directory-find-p1080.html Care.com’s Child Care Provider Search - http://www.care.com/child-care-p1004.html NACCRRA’s Annual Report on Child Care Capacity - http://www.naccrra.org/randd/docs/2008_Child_ Care_Capacity.pdf NACCRRA’s Ranking of State Standards of Small Family Child Care Homes - http://www.naccrra.org/ publications/naccrra-publications/publications/854-0000_Lvng%20Children%202%20Chance_rev_031510. pdf TopTenReviews.com’s Sex Offender Registry Review - http://sex-offender-registry-review.toptenreviews. com/ US Bureau of Labor Statistics - http://www.bls.gov/oco/ocos170.htm US Census - http://www.census.gov/
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Major Metro Area Rankings Metro Boston, MA-NH Seattle-Bellevue-Everett Denver Rochester West Palm Beach-Boca Raton Phoenix-Mesa Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill San Jose Charlotte-Gastonia-Rock Hill, NC-SC Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN-WI Chicago Orlando Washington, DC-MD-VA-WV Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater Jacksonville Atlanta Indianapolis Portland-Vancouver, OR-WA Kansas City, MO-KS Austin-San Marcos St. Louis, MO-IL Baltimore Dallas Nashville Nassau-Suffolk Oakland Hartford Sacramento Fort Worth-Arlington
State
Overall Rank
Availability Rank
Affordability Rank
Quality Rank
MA
1
1
31
12
WA
2
24
22
1
CO
3
12
17
3
NY
4
20
11
9
FL
5
15
37
2
AZ
6
30
20
5
NC
7
16
12
13
CA
8
37
1
36
NC
9
18
28
8
WI
10
11
2
43
IL FL DC FL NC GA IN OR MO TX IL MD TX TN NY CA CT CA TX
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29
33 8 31 4 26 2 21 42 13 7 47 34 19 9 46 53 3 14 44
10 45 5 52 27 6 13 25 15 16 23 32 8 21 3 9 26 33 18
17 10 34 4 19 53 25 11 30 37 15 14 39 40 44 23 49 29 27
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Detroit Cincinnati, OH-KY-IN Milwaukee-Waukesha Greensboro--Winston-Salem--High Point Springfield San Francisco Providence-Fall River-Warwick, RI-MA Columbus Salt Lake City-Ogden Las Vegas, NV-AZ San Diego Fort Lauderdale Houston Norfolk-Virginia Beach-Newport News, VA-NC Oklahoma City Buffalo-Niagara Falls Cleveland-Lorain-Elyria San Antonio Louisville, KY-IN Memphis, TN-AR-MS Newark Philadelphia, PA-NJ Riverside-San Bernardino Pittsburgh Los Angeles-Long Beach Miami New York New Orleans
MI KY WI NC MA CA MA OH UT AZ CA FL TX
30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42
39 25 17 40 10 29 5 27 54 56 36 48 52
7 30 38 40 48 35 53 29 4 44 43 50 19
48 32 28 18 20 26 16 41 51 7 22 6 45
VA
43
35
24
50
OK NY OH TX KY TN NJ NJ CA PA CA FL NY LA
44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57
38 49 43 45 41 51 28 22 50 23 55 32 6 57
47 46 42 39 41 36 14 34 49 51 54 55 56 57
21 24 33 42 46 47 57 56 38 55 31 35 54 52
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Minor Metro Area Rankings Metro Hamilton-Middletown Bloomington-Normal Stamford-Norwalk Fort Collins-Loveland Dubuque Boulder-Longmont Olympia Iowa City Green Bay Nashua Barnstable-Yarmouth Fort Walton Beach Colorado Springs Fargo-Moorhead, ND-MN Lincoln Burlington Pittsfield Ann Arbor Appleton-Oshkosh-Neenah Tacoma Richland-Kennewick-Pasco Punta Gorda Bremerton Wilmington Wilmington-Newark, DE-MD Worcester, MA-CT Naples Sarasota-Bradenton Boise City Cedar Rapids Corvallis
State
Overall Rank
Availability Rank
Affordability Rank
Quality Rank
OH
1
2
1
173
IL
2
43
12
17
CT
3
5
2
206
CO
4
54
21
18
IA
5
123
29
2
CO
6
50
15
29
WA
7
84
48
5
IA
8
4
76
78
WI
9
51
6
73
NH
10
67
7
57
MA FL CO MN NE VT MA MI WI WA WA FL WA NC DE MA FL FL ID IA OR
11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31
12 23 53 6 13 10 1 45 122 150 168 18 132 22 135 7 119 46 42 72 3
176 66 17 70 23 101 229 8 4 80 35 180 81 104 31 146 57 137 16 13 147
7 26 50 81 147 53 55 114 79 1 9 12 3 27 22 48 15 8 108 71 115
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Melbourne-Titusville-Palm Bay Manchester Cheyenne Brockton Spokane Portsmouth-Rochester, NH-ME Danbury Sioux Falls Madison Peoria-Pekin Bellingham New London-Norwich, CT-RI Fort Pierce-Port St. Lucie Bismarck Lawrence, MA-NH Kokomo Ventura Omaha, NE-IA Des Moines Grand Junction Greenville Fort Myers-Cape Coral Hagerstown Waterloo-Cedar Falls Tallahassee Anchorage Portland Clarksville-Hopkinsville, TN-KY Davenport-Moline-Rock Island, IA-IL Rockford Honolulu Santa Rosa Fort Wayne Fitchburg-Leominster
FL NH WY MA WA NH CT SD WI IL WA RI FL ND MA IN CA IA IA CO NC FL MD IA FL AK ME TN IA IL HI CA IN MA
32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65
25 69 179 34 71 29 31 38 65 124 101 20 24 117 75 195 177 68 58 94 15 44 103 49 39 169 26 16 144 196 191 120 143 33
157 38 59 84 121 67 3 25 28 58 140 78 195 77 53 14 11 26 32 106 183 163 151 44 150 19 107 92 55 30 10 85 9 209
20 61 10 51 11 74 212 136 84 25 6 110 13 21 56 52 64 125 124 24 59 23 14 121 47 80 94 150 54 60 85 40 129 19
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Grand Rapids-Muskegon-Holland Kalamazoo-Battle Creek Pensacola Huntsville South Bend Reno Santa Cruz-Watsonville St. Cloud New Bedford Wausau Albany-Schenectady-Troy Tucson Topeka Grand Forks, ND-MN Pocatello Tulsa Kenosha Racine Lawrence Muncie Dover Daytona Beach Sheboygan Lansing-East Lansing Bridgeport Fayetteville Newburgh, NY-PA Richmond-Petersburg Vallejo-Fairfield-Napa San Luis Obispo-Atascadero-Paso Robles New Haven-Meriden Glens Falls Akron Panama City
MI MI FL AL IN NV CA MN MA WI NY AZ KS MN ID OK WI WI KS IN DE FL WI MI CT NC NY VA CA CA CT NY OH FL
66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99
113 78 109 180 176 80 154 127 11 202 55 115 181 140 160 170 35 200 17 37 130 41 235 90 9 79 47 91 165 70 30 59 74 105
22 40 127 37 20 39 60 42 230 5 116 144 33 124 45 111 83 24 97 135 185 200 18 27 113 119 102 34 61 152 118 202 65 142
140 122 28 70 107 138 62 103 41 155 77 32 99 39 88 31 162 118 201 119 16 38 96 192 207 83 143 191 93 72 168 37 160 65
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Eugene-Springfield La Crosse, WI-MN Kankakee Birmingham Salinas Montgomery Elmira Billings Victoria Medford-Ashland Missoula Saginaw-Bay City-Midland Gary Wichita Syracuse Asheville Auburn-Opelika Lima Killeen-Temple Santa Barbara-Santa Maria-Lompoc Lakeland-Winter Haven Rapid City Champaign-Urbana Yakima Evansville-Henderson, IN-KY St. Joseph Waterbury Tuscaloosa Lexington Flint Sioux City, IA-NE Lynchburg Augusta-Aiken, GA-SC Binghamton
OR WI IL AL CA AL NY MT TX OR MT MI IN KS NY NC AL OH TX CA FL SD IL WA KY MO CT AL KY MI IA VA SC NY
100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133
85 136 212 98 206 125 155 99 193 203 21 194 146 164 142 64 8 236 126 102 100 121 149 237 145 77 36 73 86 167 215 116 108 83
143 68 125 114 73 129 155 88 56 148 190 52 63 43 95 220 236 36 87 132 208 64 184 206 49 90 131 175 103 47 74 72 46 182
76 131 34 101 68 75 42 132 120 30 123 128 146 157 116 33 92 126 139 105 36 176 43 4 183 167 188 87 159 174 100 181 205 86
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Columbia Salem Elkhart-Goshen Bloomington Roanoke San Angelo Toledo Lawton Dothan Canton-Massillon Dayton-Springfield Knoxville Wichita Falls Hickory-Morganton-Lenoir Provo-Orem Ocala Great Falls Redding Savannah Eau Claire Duluth-Superior, MN-WI Rocky Mount Jackson Abilene Mobile Bangor Decatur Benton Harbor Gainesville Charleston-North Charleston Bryan-College Station Owensboro Joplin Tyler
SC OR IN IN VA TX OH OK AL OH OH TN TX NC UT FL MT CA GA WI WI NC TN TX AL ME AL MI FL SC TX KY MO TX
134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167
48 216 217 19 141 153 137 172 114 110 147 129 189 174 175 61 89 32 56 131 166 204 230 81 188 28 243 232 40 57 27 66 201 183
62 86 41 214 71 100 75 186 173 98 50 105 126 169 51 238 167 216 79 89 115 188 94 162 156 207 91 54 243 134 212 117 130 141
227 106 175 166 184 144 185 49 104 182 203 161 102 67 195 35 134 133 222 186 137 46 113 156 89 171 111 179 45 204 178 209 130 141
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Utica-Rome Terre Haute Charleston Parkersburg-Marietta, WV-OH Casper Lubbock Sherman-Denison Myrtle Beach Yuma Stockton-Lodi Amarillo Erie Mansfield Charlottesville Modesto Albuquerque Flagstaff, AZ-UT Steubenville-Weirton, OH-WV Chattanooga, TN-GA Lewiston-Auburn Little Rock-North Little Rock Corpus Christi Lafayette York Anniston Goldsboro Youngstown-Warren Macon Harrisburg-Lebanon-Carlisle Pueblo Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Fayetteville-Springdale-Rogers Athens Monroe
NY IN WV WV WY TX TX SC AZ CA TX PA OH VA CA NM UT WV GA ME AR TX IN PA AL NC OH GA PA CO PA AR GA LA
168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201
162 112 207 192 62 88 156 97 111 151 209 190 218 60 182 133 152 214 138 106 128 223 205 118 198 161 173 134 139 241 52 82 14 163
205 154 109 110 239 189 122 145 217 158 133 99 178 159 171 136 192 218 108 237 96 179 153 93 198 197 160 120 82 224 128 149 222 168
66 177 151 169 63 149 187 197 90 154 142 198 98 213 145 202 135 58 215 69 226 112 158 229 97 127 170 220 234 44 243 228 235 190
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Columbus, GA-AL Santa Fe Wheeling, WV-OH Johnson City-Kingsport-Bristol, TN-VA Greenville-Spartanburg-Anderson Baton Rouge Gadsden Lancaster Longview-Marshall Biloxi-Gulfport-Pascagoula Cumberland, MD-WV Reading Bakersfield Fresno Chico-Paradise Shreveport-Bossier City Texarkana, TX-Texarkana Beaumont-Port Arthur Odessa-Midland Williamsport Fort Smith, AR-OK State College Vineland-Millville-Bridgeton Yuba City Visalia-Tulare-Porterville Albany Sumter Hattiesburg Florence Johnstown Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH El Paso Waco Altoona
GA NM WV VA SC LA AL PA TX MS MD PA CA CA CA LA AR TX TX PA AR PA NJ CA CA GA SC MS SC PA WV TX TX PA
202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235
95 224 221 185 107 199 219 187 227 157 238 184 222 226 96 231 233 245 225 76 210 92 87 148 244 159 63 93 197 208 158 220 178 211
161 174 213 165 138 166 221 69 177 123 228 112 210 193 244 196 139 170 181 194 172 164 219 241 235 234 223 225 211 201 227 203 231 187
224 153 91 196 231 193 95 244 172 233 82 237 148 165 109 163 210 189 199 238 211 246 225 180 117 194 242 232 216 219 214 208 200 230
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Scranton--Wilkes-Barre--Hazleton Merced Lake Charles Jonesboro Houma Pine Bluff Alexandria Las Cruces Laredo Danville McAllen-Edinburg-Mission Brownsville-Harlingen-San Benito
PA CA LA AR LA AR LA NM TX VA TX TX
236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247
104 228 240 171 239 229 213 186 247 234 246 242
226 242 204 215 191 199 233 232 246 240 245 247
239 152 218 241 236 240 221 245 164 247 217 223
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State Rankings • Massachusetts takes first place overall and ranks first for both availability and quality. The state ranks 28th for affordability. Massachusetts boasts a high ratio of child care providers to children, a high ratio of child care centers to children, child care providers with a high average number of years of experience, strict state standards for family daycares, and a high percentage of accredited daycare centers. • Connecticut takes second place in the rankings. Like Massachusetts, Connecticut has a high ratio of child care providers to children, a high ratio of child care centers to children, strict state standards for family daycares, and a high percentage of accredited daycare centers. Child care in Connecticut ranks tenth for affordability. • New Hampshire finishes third with a high ratio of child care providers to children, a high ratio of child care centers to children, and child care providers with a high average number of years of experience. The state ranks ninth for affordability. • Utah, although not in the top 10 for overall rank, ranks first for affordability. • The bottom spots go to West Virginia, Louisiana, and Mississippi. All three states have a low ratio of child care providers to children as well as expensive child care relative to the states’ median income.
State Massachusetts Connecticut New Hampshire Colorado Minnesota Hawaii Maryland Georgia Delaware Nebraska North Dakota Washington Arizona Vermont Illinois Michigan
Overall Rank
Availability Rank
Affirdability Rank
Quality Rank
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
1 4 8 10 12 44 31 7 37 13 6 22 18 3 33 26
28 10 9 16 2 3 4 13 14 7 26 23 25 45 17 11
1 37 10 9 24 4 14 35 8 34 16 3 5 2 12 33
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Virginia Indiana Utah Kansas Iowa Idaho Florida New jersey Alaska Wisconsin North Carolina Wyoming SouthDakota Nevada Missouri Texas RhodeIsland California Oregon Ohio DC Tennessee Maine South Carolina Pennsylvania Alabama New York Kentucky Oklahoma Montana New Mexico Arkansas WestVirginia Louisiana Mississippi
17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51
23 36 43 34 21 24 9 25 50 32 14 20 19 45 28 39 5 41 40 35 2 27 11 15 16 38 17 29 42 30 47 48 46 51 49
8 15 1 12 20 19 37 6 5 24 29 34 22 18 30 21 44 27 32 31 51 33 47 35 36 38 41 39 40 46 43 42 50 48 49
39 15 46 31 23 29 7 48 28 22 18 6 38 25 20 40 19 27 17 32 11 36 13 50 49 26 43 41 21 30 42 45 44 47 51
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