County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Butler County, PA

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$82,932
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
A
PlainChildcare Composite Score
88/100
Butler 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 A
5% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Butler 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

Butler County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Butler 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.

13 years of federal survey data (2008–2020) show how center-based infant care has moved.

+24.1% since 2008
Infant center care: $8,970 → $11,128
$11,128/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
13 years
Data available (2008–2020)
2008
$8,970
2009
$9,282
2010
$9,620
2011
$9,646
2012
$9,672
2013
$9,906
2014
$10,140
2015
$10,348
2016
$10,556
2017
$10,699
2018
$10,842
2019
$10,985
2020
$11,128
View full data table (all care types)
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $8,970
2009 $9,282
2010 $9,620
2011 $9,646
2012 $9,672
2013 $9,906
2014 $10,140
2015 $10,348
2016 $10,556
2017 $10,699
2018 $10,842
2019 $10,985
2020 $11,128
2021 N/A
2022 N/A