8,128 Texas child care operations — permit standing, capacity, deficiencies and inspections
Texas Health and Human Services publishes its Child Care Regulation file as open data — 14,971 operations on 2026-09-18, each with the state’s own deficiency counts (by weight: high, medium-high, medium, medium-low, low) and its total inspections. That is too many rows to publish in one place, so this page carries an alphabetical slice: the first 400 operations per letter of the name, 8,128 in all, tabled in full on the letter pages below — and the totals below are counted over the whole file, not the slice.
Deficiencies and inspections — the whole file
HHSC publishes these numbers as columns of the operations file itself, so they are the state’s own counts as of the 2026-09-18 fetch — not a summary this site computed from scanned reports. Counted over all 14,971 operations.
| Measure (state’s own columns) | Total across 14,971 operations |
|---|---|
| High deficiencies | 32,965 |
| Medium-high deficiencies | 55,894 |
| Medium deficiencies | 40,030 |
| Medium-low deficiencies | 5,249 |
| Low deficiencies | 2,189 |
| Inspections | 149,458 |
A deficiency count is not a rating — it is the number of deficiencies the state recorded at inspections, at the weight the state assigned. The 136,327 deficiency records behind these totals belong to individual operations; the letter pages show each operation’s own numbers.
Permit standing — the whole file
| type_of_issuance (state’s wording) | Operations |
|---|---|
| Full Permit | 10,858 |
| Registered | 1,718 |
| Listed | 1,364 |
| Initial | 987 |
| Certified | 27 |
| Renewed Initial | 17 |
The file’s operation_status column is a Y/N flag, published verbatim on every row (Y: 14,927, N: 44) — HHSC publishes no worded status, so the permit standing above and each row’s temporarily-closed, corrective-action and adverse-action flags (kept in the data) are the state’s own signals. The 0 records with no operation name or status are left off rather than guessed.
The slice, by letter of the operation name
Every letter page tables its slice in full (the first 400 operations of that letter in name order), each with permit standing, capacity, 8,044 of the 8,128 sliced rows publish a capacity, 8,090 publish a phone number, and every row carries its own deficiency counts and inspection total, linked to the state’s record.
Source and method
Every value comes from the HHSC CCL operations file on data.texas.gov (dataset page), fetched on 2026-09-18. Names, permit standings, capacities, counties, cities, phone numbers, deficiency counts and inspection totals are the API’s own values; each row links the row-level query it was read from, so the full record (addresses, ages served, hours) is one click away. The file updates regularly; these pages are a snapshot of the 2026-09-18 file.