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    Childcare Need & Supply by County

    Metadata Updated: September 27, 2025

    Statewide, DCYF estimates that families of about 305,000 children age B-5 not yet in school need child care. Only about 34% of those children are enrolled in licensed child care or preschool. The percent of need met for child care and preschool for young children varies widely across the state.

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    Metadata Created Date August 7, 2021
    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 7, 2021
    Metadata Updated Date September 27, 2025
    Publisher data.wa.gov
    Maintainer
    Identifier https://data.wa.gov/api/views/5pif-qmy6
    Data First Published 2022-01-14
    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 4e7d523a-7027-4aaf-a6cc-518af059d349
    Harvest Source Id 1c33d1cb-2f69-4f1b-835e-453790f38dc7
    Harvest Source Title WA JSON
    Homepage URL https://data.wa.gov/d/5pif-qmy6
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash d6718d7aad1ef77fdf43ac7068cac5740787a9314a0b54d3e2310f50f5487028
    Source Schema Version 1.1

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