County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2022

Childcare costs in St. Charles County, MO

Data updated 2026-07-05

N/A
Center Infant/yr
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Family Infant/yr
$99,596
Median Income
N/A
% of Income (Infant)
A
PlainChildcare Composite Score
86/100
St. Charles 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
2.9% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
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Annual childcare costs by age in St. Charles 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

St. Charles County sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for St. Charles 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.

Center-based infant care costs over 2015–2020 (6 years of NDCP data).

+72.2% since 2015
Infant center care: $6,492 → $11,177
$11,177/yr
Most recent annual cost (2020)
6 years
Data available (2015–2020)
2015
$6,492
2016
$8,054
2017
$9,615
2018
$11,177
2019
$12,738
2020
$11,177
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 $6,492
2016 $8,054
2017 $9,615
2018 $11,177
2019 $12,738
2020 $11,177
2021 N/A
2022 N/A