Child Care Centers

HIFLD (Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data) / Public Environmental Data Partners (PEDP)

This feature class/shapefile contains locations of child day care centers for the 50 states of the USA, Washington D.C., and Puerto Rico. The dataset only includes center-based child day care locations (including those located at schools and religious institutes) and does not include group, home, and family-based child day cares. Data was acquired from respective state departments or their open source websites. The TYPE attribute categorizes every child day care into Center Based, School Based, Head Start, or Religious Facility.

Data Format Shapefile, GeoJSON, GeoParquet, PMTiles

Download Url https://hifld.publicenvirodata.org/api/collections/hifld/...

Download Url Validated True

Validation Message Valid JSON data

Alternate Download Urls https://hifld.publicenvirodata.org/api/collections/hifld/...

Update Frequency Unknown

Last Updated 2026-02-15

Geospatial Bounds -165.3894,17.9626,-65.6523,66.8998

Portal Type unknown

Success True

Quality Score

100%

Usable

Yes

Total Rows

132,227

Valid Geometries

132,227 / 132,227

Schema Compliance

Geometry Type	Point
CRS	{"$schema": "https://proj.org/schemas/v0.7/projjso...
WGS84	Yes
Required Columns	Yes

Spatial Bounds

SW: (-165.3894, 17.9626)
NE: (-65.6523, 66.8998)

Column Completeness

Column	Completeness
id	100.0%
names	100.0%
categories	100.0%
operating_status	100.0%
addresses	100.0%
phones	100.0%
websites	100.0%
socials	100.0%
emails	100.0%
sources	100.0%
source_properties	100.0%

Top Categories

child_care_and_day_care (132,227)

Issues

No issues found

Overture Comparison

child_care_and_day_care (auto-inferred)

Candidate POIs

132,227

Overture POIs

11,989

H3 Cell Coverage (res 10)

Candidate Cells	120,290
Overture Cells	11,693
Overlapping	2,972
Candidate Only	117,318
Overture Only	8,721

Coverage Ratios

Overlap Ratio	2.5%
Unique Coverage	97.5%

Density Statistics

	Mean	Max	Min
Candidate	1.10	11	1
Overture	1.03	4	1