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Nebraska Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Nebraska 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.
Nebraska has 2,726 licensed child care providers on public record across 85 counties. Nebraska'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 Home I | 909 |
| Child Care Center | 699 |
| Family Child Care Home II | 527 |
| School Age Only Child Care Center | 270 |
| Preschool | 96 |
| Provisional Family Child Care Home II | 86 |
| Provisional Family Child Care Home I | 74 |
| Provisional Child Care Center | 51 |
| Provisional School-Age-Only Center | 12 |
| Provisional Preschool | 2 |
Where the providers are
Nebraska cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- Omaha — 735 providers
- Lincoln — 358 providers
- Kearney — 88 providers
- Grand Island — 69 providers
- Bellevue — 67 providers
- Norfolk — 55 providers
- Papillion — 49 providers
- Columbus — 49 providers
- Scottsbluff — 37 providers
- Elkhorn — 37 providers
Nebraska child care in the news
Recent third-party coverage of Nebraska child care. Headlines link to the original source — these are news reports, not our licensing records.
- Nebraska families feel financial strain at crossroads of child care and careerKOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE · Jul 28, 2026
- Nebraska families feel financial strain at crossroads of child care and careerKOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE · Jul 27, 2026
- Nebraska families feel financial strain at crossroads of child care and careerKOLN | Nebraska Local News, Weather, Sports | Lincoln, NE · Jul 27, 2026
- 18-month-old dies after being left in daycare transport vehicle for 8 hoursKFXL · Jul 25, 2026
- Baby violently assaulted by woman at unlicensed home daycare: policeKHGI · Jul 24, 2026
- Woman arrested after 8-month-old dies at unlicensed Ohio daycareKHGI · Jul 23, 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 Nebraska provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Nebraska DHHS licensed child care roster, published as open data on NebraskaMap (gis.ne.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.