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# Newly Licensed Child Care Centers & After-School Programs (TX, NY, PA, WA, MA): 2026 statistics from 3,504 public records

**Pennsylvania leads with 1,997 of 3,504 records (57.0%), ahead of New York with 689 (19.7%) (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)).**

Data as of 2026-11-04 · Compiled by Zalwin from Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov) Copy citation

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## Key findings

- Zalwin's ChildCareCenterLicensePulse dataset holds 3,504 ChildCareCenterLicensePulse records dated 2026-05-01 to 2026-11-04 (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-1)
- Pennsylvania leads with 1,997 of 3,504 records (57.0%), ahead of New York with 689 (19.7%) (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-2)
- The most common program type is Child care center: 2,795 of 3,504 records (79.8%) (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-3)
- Across 3,249 records with a stated capacity, the total is 311,491 and the median is 78; the largest is 640 (Imogen Roche Foundation, Inc.) (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-4)
- The top 10% of records by capacity (325 of 3,249) account for 26.2% of the total (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-5)
- 391 of 3,504 records (11.2%) are dated within the 30 days before 2026-11-04 (source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-6)
- In Pennsylvania, the leading program type is Child care center with 1,997 of 1,997 records (100.0%) (as of 2026-11-04; source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov)). [#](#finding-7)

## ChildCareCenterLicensePulse records by state

| Group | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pennsylvania | 1,997 | 57.0% |
| New York | 689 | 19.7% |
| Texas | 625 | 17.8% |
| Washington | 132 | 3.8% |
| Massachusetts | 61 | 1.7% |

## ChildCareCenterLicensePulse records by program type

| Group | Records | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Child care center | 2,795 | 79.8% |
| Before/after-school or school-age program | 709 | 20.2% |

## Methodology and data provenance

- Sample: 3,504 public records dated 2026-05-01 to 2026-11-04; illustrative samples excluded.

- Source: Texas HHSC Child Care Regulation operations (data.texas.gov), New York OCFS Child Care Regulated Programs (data.ny.gov), Pennsylvania DHS child care provider listing (data.pa.gov), Washington DCYF licensed providers (data.wa.gov) and Massachusetts EEC licensed programs (educationtocareer.data.mass.gov). Refreshed automatically about every 24 hours; figures above are as of 2026-11-04.

- Shares are of all records in the dataset; totals and medians use only records with a stated capacity.

- Organization-level data only. Informational; verify individual records at the official source.

### Cite this study

Zalwin Research, "ChildCareCenterLicensePulse statistics" (data as of 2026-11-04), https://zalwin.com/research/childcarecenterlicensepulse

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