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    Childcare Need & Supply (All)

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

    Statewide, DCYF estimates that families of about 293,000 children age B-5 not yet in school need child care, because all available parents in the home are working. Only about 27% of these children are served by licensed child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care. Additionally, we estimate that families of over 491,000 school-age children (kindergarten through age 12) are in need of care, and only about 12% of these children are served by licensed child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care.

    The percent of need met for child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care for children of all ages varies widely across the state.

    *https://www.dcyf.wa.gov/practice/oiaa/reports/early-learning-dashboards/child-care-need-supply-data

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from WA JSON

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    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date August 12, 2023
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Publisher data.wa.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.wa.gov/api/views/hiqz-y2vv
    Data First Published 2024-06-27
    Data Last Modified 2025-09-26
    Category education
    Public Access Level public
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://data.wa.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Harvest Object Id 687934d7-98cc-49dc-8b7a-c11e482dc71c
    Harvest Source Id 1c33d1cb-2f69-4f1b-835e-453790f38dc7
    Harvest Source Title WA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.wa.gov/d/hiqz-y2vv
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 7fbcd0a7466e583032d9135b2e7b9d90eb1aa1439104a0b1e320d5a643f425e9
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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