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North Dakota Child Care: Licensed Providers

Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in North Dakota from the state's public licensing roster. 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.

North Dakota has 1,086 licensed child care providers on public record across 52 counties. North Dakota's public roster 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

North Dakota cities/towns with the most licensed providers:

1. Fargo — 206 providers
2. Bismarck — 103 providers
3. Minot — 93 providers
4. West Fargo — 83 providers
5. Grand Forks — 68 providers
6. Mandan — 44 providers
7. Jamestown — 40 providers
8. Dickinson — 36 providers
9. Williston — 34 providers
10. Wahpeton — 24 providers

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North Dakota child care in the news

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

• Federal childcare subsidy for working North Dakota families to expire in September
  Williston Herald · Aug 24, 2026
• North Dakota families, childcare providers frustrated by growing waitlist for assistance
  The Mighty 790 KFGO · Aug 17, 2026
• Republican lawmakers block vital child care funding as Trump-Vance Admin make Head Start cuts
  Dem-NPL Party · Aug 17, 2026
• North Dakota families, childcare providers frustrated by growing waitlist for assistance
  North Dakota Monitor · Aug 16, 2026
• Mandan man charged with sex crime after investigation into events at in-home daycare
  The Bismarck Tribune · Aug 15, 2026
• Data centers, vapes, childcare aid emerge for North Dakota special session consideration
  North Dakota Monitor · 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 North Dakota 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 North Dakota Department of Health and Human Services licensed child care roster, provided via a public records request (North Dakota has no open dataset; we re-request periodically to refresh). Childcare Alertssurfaces 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.