Daycares in Indiana

4,014 licensed child care providers in Indiana, drawn from the state licensing agency's public records. Each profile carries the license number, status, and capacity on record. Where the state publishes nothing for a field, or the daycare is not licensed, the profile says so plainly.

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Averaged across every licensed provider on record, excluding this state from the comparison.

Parent sentiment

-0.2 vs Other states average

Average parent review rating on Google or Yelp.

Indiana3.2
Other states3.4

751 providers sampled

Daycare Index Rating

-4 vs Other states average

Average Daycare Index Rating across the providers here that carry a score. Each score is built only from the public record available for that provider, and whatever the data cannot answer is excluded rather than guessed at. See scoring guide.

Indiana47
Other states51

397 providers sampled

Indiana over time

Every dated record we hold for Indiana, bucketed by calendar year. Each panel names its own coverage: a line appears once a year carries enough observations to be a point rather than an anecdote, and says why it is empty when it is.

Safety index trend

Indiana publishes inspection outcomes, but not in a form this pipeline can read, so there is no violation-rate line to draw here. Read that as a gap in what we can see, not as a finding. An empty inspection history is not a clean record.

Parent sentiment trend

20172026

Average star rating across every dated parent review on record for Indiana. Reviews are counted individually here, unlike the state averages above.

Show the figures

Average parent review star rating for Indiana daycares, by year, by year, with sample sizes
Year	Average rating	Sample
2017	4.44	103
2018	4.26	94
2019	4.44	146
2020	4.32	105
2021	4.23	124
2022	3.99	145
2023	4.40	290
2024	4.17	373
2025	4.42	757
2026	4.43	700

Where they are in Indiana

Every Indiana provider we hold a location for. Click a pin for the license record, and pan or zoom to load more.

Where this record comes from

Licensing in Indiana is administered by the Family and Social Services Administration, OECOSL under 470 IAC 3-4.7. This directory republishes the public record and labels every absent field "Not listed" rather than filling it in. Verify current status with the agency before enrolling.

Primary source: https://childcarefinder.in.gov

Indiana averages