Childcare Need & Supply (All)

Statewide, DCYF estimates that families of about 293,000 children age B-5 not yet in school need child care, because all available parents in the home are working. Only about 27% of these children are served by licensed child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care.

Additionally, we estimate that families of over 491,000 school-age children (kindergarten through age 12) are in need of care, and only about 12% of these children are served by licensed child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care.

The percent of need met for child care, preschool, and/or subsidized child care for children of all ages varies widely across the state.

Querying over HTTP

Splitgraph serves as an HTTP API that lets you run SQL queries directly on this data to power Web applications. For example:

curl https://data.splitgraph.com/sql/query/ddn \
    -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
    -d@-<<EOF
{"sql": "
    SELECT *
    FROM \"wa-gov/childcare-need-supply-all-hiqz-y2vv\".\"childcare_need_supply_all\"
    LIMIT 100 
"}
EOF

See the Splitgraph documentation for more information.