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Oklahoma Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Oklahoma'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.
Oklahoma has 2,684 licensed child care providers on public record across 76 counties. Oklahoma'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. Where the state publishes a Reaching for the Stars quality rating, we show it too.
Provider types
| Type | Providers |
|---|---|
| Child Care Center | 1,405 |
| Family Child Care Home | 1,279 |
Where the providers are
Oklahoma cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- Oklahoma City — 446 providers
- Tulsa — 350 providers
- Edmond — 108 providers
- Broken Arrow — 87 providers
- Norman — 82 providers
- Moore — 53 providers
- Midwest City — 53 providers
- Yukon — 49 providers
- Lawton — 44 providers
- Owasso — 36 providers
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Oklahoma child care in the news
Recent third-party coverage of Oklahoma child care. Headlines link to the original source — these are news reports, not our licensing records.
- Surveillance video leads to child abuse charges against Moore home daycare workerKOCO · Aug 25, 2026
- Woman arrested for allegedly abusing infants at a home daycare in Moore, Oklahomat.co · Aug 25, 2026
- Moore Daycare Provider Jailed on $300K Bond Over Alleged Infant Abuse VideosHoodline · Aug 25, 2026
- Oklahoma daycare closes amid investigation into 11-month-old's injuries after first dayYahoo · Aug 18, 2026
- Holdenville daycare closes after 11-month-old found bruised following first dayYahoo · Aug 18, 2026
- 'Heart of Brown Bear': Families remember mother, daughter killed in daycare murder-suicideKTUL · Aug 18, 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 Oklahoma provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Oklahoma Department of Human Services (OKDHS)'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.