County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Northumberland County, PA

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$55,952
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
C
PlainChildcare Composite Score
54/100
Northumberland 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 C
8.9% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Northumberland 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

Northumberland County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Northumberland 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.

+15.0% since 2008
Infant center care: $6,500 → $7,475
$7,475/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
13 years
Data available (2008–2020)
2008
$6,500
2009
$6,656
2010
$6,812
2011
$6,994
2012
$7,176
2013
$7,280
2014
$7,384
2015
$8,502
2016
$9,620
2017
$8,931
2018
$8,242
2019
$7,768
2020
$7,475
View full data table (all care types)
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $6,500
2009 $6,656
2010 $6,812
2011 $6,994
2012 $7,176
2013 $7,280
2014 $7,384
2015 $8,502
2016 $9,620
2017 $8,931
2018 $8,242
2019 $7,768
2020 $7,475
2021 N/A
2022 N/A