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Childcare costs in Carroll County, NH

The standout signal in Carroll County, NH is sticker price: center infant care runs $14,327/yr (STEEP · steep-price tercile · #2,381 of 2,662), 49% above the U.S. average.

Data updated 2026-07-05

$14,327
Center Infant/yr
$9,866
Family Infant/yr
$77,049
Median Income
18.6%
% of Income (Infant)

The verdict

Carroll County pairs the 11th percentile for infant-care affordability nationally with a heavy income burden on families.

11th pct.
affordability nationally
Heavy
income-burden tier
Wide
family-vs-infant price gap
#2,381
of 2,662 priced counties
D
PlainChildcare Composite Score
38/100
Carroll County, NH

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 D
Center-based infant care costs 18.6% of median household income here (national median 14.6%)
Preschool care burden D
Center-based preschool care costs 15.5% of median household income here (national median 12.5%)
School-age care burden F
Center-based school-age care costs 13.8% of median household income here (national median 10.4%)
Economic hardship A
4.7% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Steep-price tercile: family infant care here is $9,866/yr beside the $14,327 center sticker; toddler center care is $13,586/yr.

Steep-book age ladder for Carroll County

Age Group Center-Based Family Childcare
Infant $14,327 $9,866
Toddler $13,586 $9,188
Preschool $11,911 $9,188
School Age $10,654 N/A

Where Carroll County ranks on infant-care cost

Center-based infant care, every U.S. county with reported prices

$14,327 more affordable than 11% of 2,662 US counties

This county $2,500 $32,500 every U.S. county, bucketed by value

Each bar is a $2.5K-wide band; taller bars hold more US counties. The dashed line + filled bar mark this entry. Hover or tap any bar for its full count, share, and where it sits relative to this entry.

Source U.S. Department of Labor, National Database of Childcare Prices · 2022

Carroll County vs. every other New Hampshire county: income vs. infant-care cost

Median household income (x) vs. average center-based infant care (y) across 10 New Hampshire counties with reported prices. Crosshairs at the New Hampshire median.

Median household income vs Avg. annual infant care 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 10 entities by Median household income (X) and Avg. annual infant care (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. High income, high costLow income, high costHigh income, low costLow income, low cost $40,000$60,000$80,000$100,000$120,000 $13,500$14,000$14,500$15,000$15,500$16,000$16,500 Median household income Avg. annual infant care Belknap CountyCheshire CountyCoos CountyGrafton CountyHillsborough CountyMerrimack CountyRockingham CountyStrafford CountySullivan CountyCarroll County

Within New Hampshire, Carroll County has lower income and lower infant-care cost than the typical New Hampshire county (its national standing, the 11th percentile for infant-care affordability nationally, is a separate comparison against every U.S. county, not just its own state).

Carroll County sticker reading

The standout signal in Carroll County, NH is sticker price: center infant care runs $14,327/yr (STEEP · steep-price tercile · #2,381 of 2,662), 49% above the U.S. average.

Heavy-burden tercile counties like Carroll County put infant center care at 18.6% of a $77,049 ACS median, well above the HHS 7% line and already in the steep sticker third of the national book. Treat subsidy and family-setting trade-offs as first-order, not footnotes.

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.

Historical Price Trends (2008–2022)

Center-based infant care costs over 2017–2022 (6 years of NDCP data).

+42.4% since 2017
Infant center care: $10,062 → $14,327
$14,327/yr
Most recent annual cost (2022)
6 years
Data available (2017–2022)
2017
$10,062
2018
$10,915
2019
$11,768
2020
$12,621
2021
$13,474
2022
$14,327
View full data table (all care types) ▼
Year Ctr Infant
2008 N/A
2009 N/A
2010 N/A
2011 N/A
2012 N/A
2013 N/A
2014 N/A
2015 N/A
2016 N/A
2017 $10,062
2018 $10,915
2019 $11,768
2020 $12,621
2021 $13,474
2022 $14,327

Nearest infant-price counties in New Hampshire

Ordered by ABS(center_infant) to Carroll County's STEEP NDCP sticker - not A-Z chrome.

Coos County, NH
Infant: $13,992 · 25.3% of income
Grafton County, NH
Infant: $14,785 · 18.5% of income
Cheshire County, NH
Infant: $14,803 · 19.3% of income
Sullivan County, NH
Infant: $14,861 · 21.0% of income
Merrimack County, NH
Infant: $14,926 · 16.8% of income
Belknap County, NH
Infant: $14,955 · 18.5% of income

What to do with Carroll County

Infant center care here runs 18.6% of the local median income (HEAVY), check where your own household lands.

  • Carroll County spends 18.6% of median income on infant center care, above the HHS 7%-of-income affordability line. See exactly where your own household income lands. Affordability calculator
  • $14,327/yr center infant sticker (STEEP) - see how Carroll County compares against the full national ladder. National rankings
  • If care is straining the budget, federal and state programs (CCDF, Head Start) can cut it sharply. Check whether Carroll County families are likely eligible. Check subsidy eligibility

Figures are NDCP county-level survey medians for 2022 - your local providers set the actual price.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor, National Database of Childcare Prices (2022); median household income: U.S. Census ACS. See methodology for how costs and affordability are computed. As-of July 2026.

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