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Visit childcaredeserts.org to view an interactive map of the nation's child care deserts. More than half of the U.S. population lives in a neighborhood classified as a child care...
- Mapping America’s Child Care Deserts - Center for American ...
Report Aug 30, 2017. Mapping America’s Child Care Deserts....
- America’s Child Care Deserts in 2018 - Center for American ...
America’s Child Care Deserts in 2018. A new analysis of...
- Understanding Infant and Toddler Child Care Deserts - Center ...
Using the Center for American Progress’ working definition...
- Mapping America’s Child Care Deserts - Center for American ...
U.S. CHILD CARE DESERTS. Use the search box to find child care deserts in cities and towns across America. Investigate correlations with racial and economic factors. Or start by seeing how child care impacts places like Milwaukee, Detroit, and San Jose. Card eyebrow. Search and explore the map. share. Share this view.
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Colorado has a lower proportion of child care deserts than many of the states in this study, but these child care deserts are heavily populated: Only 38 percent of Colorado ZIP codes are classified as child care deserts, but they contain 46 percent of the state’s residents. About half of the Coloradans living in child care deserts are in the greate...
About one-third of Georgia ZIP codes are child care deserts, which is the lowest rate of all eight states studied. Since Georgia child care deserts are more likely to be in rural areas, the state has the lowest proportion of its residents living in child care deserts—fewer than 15 percent. Nonetheless, more than 800,000 Georgians reside in rural ch...
In Illinois, more than 8 million people live in child care deserts. Whether in rural, suburban, or urban parts of the state, a majority of its ZIP codes are child care deserts. Chicago is the largest urban child care desert in all eight states, where 5 out of 6 children under the age of 5 live in a child care desert. Overall, 80 percent of Chicagoa...
Maryland has the second-lowest rate of child care deserts in the study, although that still means that one-third of Maryland ZIP codes are child care deserts. Maryland is the most densely populated state in the study, and most Marylanders live in somewhat densely populated suburbs. Among Maryland’s urban ZIP codes, more than half of the population ...
Minnesota has the highest rate of child care deserts and the highest proportion of its population living in child care deserts. As of July 2016, there are only 1,253 child care centers in Minnesota, with the capacity to serve 81,306 children. With about 350,000 children under the age of 5 in Minnesota, that means that there are more than four child...
North Carolina has the most child care centers per ZIP code of all eight states. Nonetheless, more than one-quarter of North Carolinians under the age of 5 live in child care deserts. Like the other states in this study, the supply of child care center slots is substantially lower in rural areas. The state was one of the first to implement a QRIS, ...
Ohio child care deserts are a disproportionately rural phenomenon. While the majority of the state population resides in suburban communities, more than one-quarter of Ohioans live in rural ZIP codes. These communities are more likely to be child care deserts than not, with nearly 7 in 10 rural Ohio children living in child care deserts. In total, ...
With nearly 3.3 million people living in child care deserts, Virginia has one of the highest child care desert populations in the study. When compared with neighboring North Carolina, which has a larger population, Virginia has roughly 1 million more residents in child care deserts. While the majority of the state’s population is suburban, most ZIP...
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A new report from the Center for American Progress finds that more than half of Americans live in ‘Child Care Deserts.’ Enter your address to see whether you live in one of these Child Care Deserts.
