Licensed Childcare Providers (25 States)
U.S. Location Dataset // 158,891

158,891 licensed childcare providers merged from the 25 state registries that publish their data in bulk: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Vermont, Washington, Wisconsin. Every record has a street address; 83,176 are licensed centers, 53,653 are family child care homes, 9,215 are school-age programs and 1,947 are Head Start sites, each tagged in the providerType column. Roughly four in five carry the licensed capacity, which is the field buyers qualify on. There is no national childcare registry — no federal agency licenses childcare — so a list like this only exists if someone assembles it state by state, and that is precisely why it is worth buying rather than building. Buyers include food and snack distributors, curriculum, toy and furniture suppliers, playground manufacturers, childcare management software, insurance brokers, staffing agencies and private equity groups rolling up centers.

All 158,891 records, as published — the complete set rather than a sample. That matters most for coverage and gap questions: put together the same list from partial searches and every location you miss reads as a gap that is not there, so the answer is wrong rather than merely late. Assembling the U.S.-wide coverage by hand also means one query per area against sources that cap what they return per search.