Child care license lookup by state — Texas, Washington and New York
Looking up a child care provider’s license is a state-by-state question: each state keeps its own registry, and most publish it only through search forms. This cross-section reads three states’ own open-data files and publishes them as answer pages — 34,834 providers in all as of their fetch dates. Each state page carries the registry’s own values: who is licensed, the permit standing, the licensed capacity, where it is and how to call it, and — where the state publishes them — its inspection and deficiency counts.
The three states
| State | Registry | Providers | What the state page answers | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | HHSC Child Care Regulation | 14,971 | permit standing, licensed capacity, county and phone for every operation, plus the state's own deficiency counts (high/medium/low) and inspection totals | 2026-09-18 |
| Washington | DCYF | 3,167 | operating status, license type, facility type, licensed capacity, county, city and phone for every provider in the state's file | 2026-09-18 |
| New York | OCFS | 16,696 | license or registration status, program type, licensed capacity and phone for every program, grouped by city | 2026-09-17 |
New York’s 16,696 programs are additionally grouped into 1,078 city pages. Texas ships an honest alphabetical slice of its 14,971-row file (8,128 rows tabled in full, plus whole-file totals); Washington’s page carries its whole file.
Source and method
Every value on the state pages was read from the states’ own open-data APIs — Texas HHSC’s operations file on data.texas.gov, Washington DCYF’s provider file on data.wa.gov and New York OCFS’s regulated-programs file on data.ny.gov — on the fetch date shown for each state. Names, statuses, capacities, counties, phone numbers, deficiency counts and inspection totals are the states’ own published values, never estimated; each state page links the dataset and the row-level query behind every row. The files update on the states’ own schedules; these pages are snapshots of those dates.