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Indiana Child Care: Licensed Providers

Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Indiana's public open data — the roster its licensing agency publishes. This report summarizes the landscape and points you to each provider's official state record. It is a factual overview, not a safety rating of any provider.

Indiana has 553 licensed child care providers on public record across 76 counties. Indiana's open data is a directory — the licensing and inspection history for a provider lives on the official state record, which we link to on every provider page. Where the state publishes a Paths to QUALITY quality rating, we show it too.

Provider types

Where the providers are

Indiana cities/towns with the most licensed providers:

1. Indianapolis — 94 providers
2. Evansville — 20 providers
3. Fishers — 20 providers
4. Fort Wayne — 15 providers
5. Gary — 13 providers
6. Elkhart — 13 providers
7. South Bend — 12 providers
8. Lafayette — 9 providers
9. Hammond — 9 providers
10. Muncie — 9 providers

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Indiana child care in the news

Recent third-party coverage of Indiana child care. Headlines link to the original source — these are news reports, not our licensing records.

• Indiana To Potential Cut Childcare Vouchers Thailand (WyvwSenZNK)
  Mshale · Aug 26, 2026
• Indy home daycare owner charged with neglect, abuse of 10-month old
  Fox 59 · Aug 14, 2026
• South Dakota man faces over 200 years in prison if convicted in daycare fraud case
  Dakota News Now · Aug 14, 2026
• Daycare owner gave 10-month-old a brain bleed after she told him to 'stop crying': Cops
  Law and Crime News · Aug 13, 2026
• Media scrum with Indiana Governor Mike Braun at Shepherd Community's Minnie Hartmann Neighborhood Childcare
  IndyStar · Aug 12, 2026
• Indiana issues thousands of new childcare vouchers after enrollment freeze
  WNDU · Aug 7, 2026

Coverage is gathered automatically from public news sources and isn't an endorsement; we link out and don't host the articles.

How to check a specific provider

Search any Indiana provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.

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Methodology & source

Providers: the Indiana Family and Social Services Administration (FSSA)'s licensed child care roster, published as public open data. Childcare Alerts surfaces and summarizes these public records; the official government record always controls, and the absence of a record is not a guarantee of safety. Childcare Alerts is an independent service, not affiliated with any state agency.