County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Clay County, MO

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$82,264
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
A
PlainChildcare Composite Score
84/100
Clay County, MO

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
5.5% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Clay 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

Clay County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Clay 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 MO 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.

6 years of federal survey data (2015–2020) show how center-based infant care has moved.

+78.9% since 2015
Infant center care: $6,739 → $12,054
$12,054/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
6 years
Data available (2015–2020)
2015
$6,739
2016
$6,739
2017
$9,396
2018
$12,054
2019
$14,711
2020
$12,054
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 $6,739
2016 $6,739
2017 $9,396
2018 $12,054
2019 $14,711
2020 $12,054
2021 N/A
2022 N/A