County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Montgomery County, PA

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$107,441
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
A
PlainChildcare Composite Score
89/100
Montgomery 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
4.1% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Montgomery 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

Montgomery County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Montgomery 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.

Here's how center-based infant care priced out from 2008 to 2020, across 13 years of NDCP survey data.

+30.4% since 2008
Infant center care: $11,921 → $15,548
$15,548/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
13 years
Data available (2008–2020)
2008
$11,921
2009
$12,220
2010
$12,480
2011
$12,740
2012
$13,000
2013
$13,416
2014
$13,832
2015
$13,962
2016
$14,092
2017
$14,456
2018
$14,820
2019
$15,184
2020
$15,548
View full data table (all care types)
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $11,921
2009 $12,220
2010 $12,480
2011 $12,740
2012 $13,000
2013 $13,416
2014 $13,832
2015 $13,962
2016 $14,092
2017 $14,456
2018 $14,820
2019 $15,184
2020 $15,548
2021 N/A
2022 N/A