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Maryland Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Maryland from the state's open data. 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.
Maryland has 7,167 licensed child care providers on public record across 23 counties. Maryland'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.
Provider types
| Type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Family Child Care | 3,863 |
| Child Care Center | 1,772 |
| School-Age Only | 669 |
| Public Prekindergarten | 495 |
| Large Family Child Care | 184 |
| Loc | 184 |
Where the providers are
Maryland cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- Baltimore — 1,082 providers
- Silver Spring — 362 providers
- Frederick — 230 providers
- Columbia — 181 providers
- Rockville — 179 providers
- Laurel — 160 providers
- Waldorf — 145 providers
- Gaithersburg — 140 providers
- Germantown — 138 providers
- Hagerstown — 119 providers
How to check a specific provider
Search any Maryland provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Maryland licensed child care provider roster, published as open data (maryland.gov). 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.