County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Berks County, PA

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$74,617
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
C
PlainChildcare Composite Score
57/100
Berks County, PA

A center-based childcare affordability composite (infant, preschool, and school-age price burden relative to local median income) plus poverty rate, benchmarked against every other tracked county nationally. Not a rating of childcare quality, safety, or availability. Dimensions with no data on file are excluded and their weight redistributed, never counted as zero.

Infant care burden
No center-based infant care price on file for this county
Preschool care burden
No center-based preschool care price on file for this county
School-age care burden
No center-based school-age care price on file for this county
Economic hardship C
8.5% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Berks County

Age Group Center-Based Family Childcare
Infant N/A N/A
Toddler N/A N/A
Preschool N/A N/A
School Age N/A N/A

Berks County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Berks County against the HHS 7% benchmark: this county has no reported center-based infant care price in the underlying survey. See the state page for PA for the closest available affordability context.

For how to vet a licensed provider (inspection reports, QRIS ratings, CCDF subsidy intake), see Choosing Quality Childcare. Rate methodology: how these numbers are computed.

Center-based infant care costs over 2008–2020 (13 years of NDCP data).

+25.8% since 2008
Infant center care: $8,889 → $11,180
$11,180/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
13 years
Data available (2008–2020)
2008
$8,889
2009
$9,360
2010
$9,568
2011
$9,854
2012
$10,140
2013
$10,270
2014
$10,400
2015
$10,400
2016
$10,400
2017
$10,595
2018
$10,790
2019
$10,985
2020
$11,180
View full data table (all care types)
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $8,889
2009 $9,360
2010 $9,568
2011 $9,854
2012 $10,140
2013 $10,270
2014 $10,400
2015 $10,400
2016 $10,400
2017 $10,595
2018 $10,790
2019 $10,985
2020 $11,180
2021 N/A
2022 N/A