County childcare costs · DOL NDCP 2019

Childcare costs in Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

Data updated 2026-07-05

N/A
Center Infant/yr
$12,325
Family Infant/yr
$79,867
Median Income
N/A
% of Income (Infant)
B
PlainChildcare Composite Score
67/100
Valdez-Cordova Census Area, AK

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
7.5% poverty rate here (national median 9.3%)
Price-change feed

Annual childcare costs by age in Valdez-Cordova Census Area

Age Group Center-Based Family Childcare
Infant N/A $12,325
Toddler N/A $11,888
Preschool N/A $11,840
School Age N/A N/A

Valdez-Cordova Census Area sticker reading

Household affordability can't be assessed for Valdez-Cordova Census Area against the HHS 7% benchmark: this county has no reported center-based infant care price in the underlying survey. See the state page for AK 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 2014 to 2018, across 4 years of NDCP survey data.

+82.2% since 2014
Infant center care: $9,900 → $18,036
$18,036/yr
Most recent annual cost (2018)
4 years
Data available (2014–2018)
2014
$9,900
2015
$9,900
2016
$12,612
2018
$18,036
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 $9,900
2015 $9,900
2016 $12,612
2017 N/A
2018 $18,036
2019 N/A