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Montana Child Care: Licensed Providers

Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Montana'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.

Montana has 1,215 licensed child care providers on public record across 52 counties. Montana'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

Where the providers are

Montana cities/towns with the most licensed providers:

1. Billings — 211 providers
2. Missoula — 133 providers
3. Great Falls — 88 providers
4. Helena — 86 providers
5. Butte — 79 providers
6. Bozeman — 74 providers
7. Kalispell — 60 providers
8. Belgrade — 36 providers
9. Havre — 24 providers
10. Miles City — 20 providers

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Montana child care in the news

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

• Nebraska group launches Child Care Can campaign to address child care shortages
  KHGI · Aug 25, 2026
• America’s Child Care Crisis Was a Political Choice
  Dame Magazine · Aug 19, 2026
• What a new report reveals about Big Sky’s childcare crunch
  Explore Big Sky · Aug 17, 2026
• ‘More than we could’ve imagined’: Local child care program celebrates 30 years of support
  Bozeman Daily Chronicle · Aug 17, 2026
• 10-month-old Kentucky girl dies in car after grandmother forgot to drop her off at daycare
  NBC Montana · Aug 15, 2026
• 'I don't understand': 6-year-old allegedly died after being left in hot daycare van
  NBC Montana · Aug 14, 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 Montana 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 Montana Department of Public Health and Human Services'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.