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Michigan Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Michigan 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.
Michigan has 7,700 licensed child care providers on public record across 83 counties. Michigan'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 |
|---|---|
| Center | 4,549 |
| Family Home (1-6) | 1,771 |
| Group Home (7-12) | 1,380 |
Where the providers are
Michigan cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- Detroit — 505 providers
- Grand Rapids — 276 providers
- Saginaw — 172 providers
- Kalamazoo — 155 providers
- Lansing — 139 providers
- Flint — 135 providers
- Muskegon — 122 providers
- Ann Arbor — 119 providers
- Ypsilanti — 95 providers
- Jackson — 91 providers
How to check a specific provider
Search any Michigan provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Michigan LARA licensed child care roster, published as open data (ArcGIS). 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.