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Oregon Child Care: Licensed Providers
Childcare Alerts indexes every licensed child care provider in Oregon'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.
Oregon has 4,454 licensed child care providers on public record across 36 counties. Oregon'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 | 2,680 |
| Center | 1,173 |
| Certified | 601 |
Where the providers are
Oregon cities/towns with the most licensed providers:
- Portland — 1,016 providers
- Salem — 301 providers
- Eugene — 192 providers
- Beaverton — 171 providers
- Medford — 132 providers
- Bend — 129 providers
- Hillsboro — 118 providers
- Gresham — 96 providers
- Springfield — 88 providers
- Albany — 87 providers
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Oregon child care in the news
Recent third-party coverage of Oregon child care. Headlines link to the original source — these are news reports, not our licensing records.
- Frustrated family childcare providers working with expired contractAOL.com · Aug 23, 2026
- Police: Man arrested for exposing himself outside Longview daycareKPTV · Aug 21, 2026
- Police: Man arrested after exposing himself outside Longview daycareKPTV · Aug 21, 2026
- Police: Man arrested after exposing himself outside Longview daycareKPTV · Aug 21, 2026
- NeighborImpact, OSU-Cascades Announce Plan for Childcare BuildingMyCentralOregon.com · Aug 20, 2026
- Why more than 400,000 kids are on waitlists for federal childcare assistanceKERA News · Aug 19, 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 Oregon provider by name or city to see its details and a link to the official state record.
Methodology & source
Providers: the Oregon Department of Early Learning and Care (DELC)'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.