County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in Somerset County, PA

Data updated 2026-07-05

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Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$57,357
Median Income
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% of Income (Infant)
B
PlainChildcare Composite Score
69/100
Somerset 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 B
7.3% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Somerset 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

Somerset County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Somerset 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.

+12.3% since 2008
Infant center care: $5,720 → $6,422
$6,422/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
13 years
Data available (2008–2020)
2008
$5,720
2009
$6,500
2010
$6,240
2011
$6,273
2012
$6,305
2013
$6,468
2014
$6,630
2015
$6,799
2016
$6,968
2017
$6,832
2018
$6,695
2019
$6,559
2020
$6,422
View full data table (all care types)
Year Ctr Infant
2008 $5,720
2009 $6,500
2010 $6,240
2011 $6,273
2012 $6,305
2013 $6,468
2014 $6,630
2015 $6,799
2016 $6,968
2017 $6,832
2018 $6,695
2019 $6,559
2020 $6,422
2021 N/A
2022 N/A