County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Lafayette County, FL

Data updated 2026-09-24

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$57,852
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
F
PlainChildcare Composite Score
11/100
Lafayette County, FL

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 F
17.7% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Lafayette 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

Lafayette County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Lafayette 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 FL 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.

Here's how center-based infant care priced out from 2008 to 2017, across 10 years of NDCP survey data.

+49.2% since 2008
Infant center care: $5,377 → $8,022
$8,022/yr
Most recent annual cost (2017)
10 years
Data available (2008–2017)
2008
$5,377
2009
$4,929
2010
$5,661
2011
$6,392
2012
$7,123
2013
$7,855
2014
$7,897
2015
$7,938
2016
$7,980
2017
$8,022
View full data table (all care types) ▼
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $5,377
2009 $4,929
2010 $5,661
2011 $6,392
2012 $7,123
2013 $7,855
2014 $7,897
2015 $7,938
2016 $7,980
2017 $8,022
2018 N/A
2019 N/A
2020 N/A
2021 N/A
2022 N/A