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Early Years, with funding from the Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, has created an early childhood data repository that will provide early childhood providers, community agencies, state agencies and public policy makers with lots of data on the early care and education system.
With the North Carolina Early Care and Education Data Repository, users can find ECE data gathered from multiple sources, all in one place. Data is divided into five topic areas, described below. Each topic includes both county and statewide factsheets and spreadsheets.
Fact Sheets on this website are published quarterly. For example data from March are published in April, under the Q1 Factsheet. In addition, for data about the early care and education workforce, users can see our Workforce Studies.
**Due to the current restructuring of the CCR&R system, the publication of new factsheets has been paused until early 2027. The factsheets were last updated at the end of Q1 of 2026
**Prior to 2026, Fact Sheets were published monthly. Search for a quarter prior to 2026 will include all three monthly factsheets that were published in that quarter.
**Due to COVID-19, the data repository was not updated from April 2020 to November 2020.
Child Care in North Carolina factsheets provide an overview of the need for and the quality, availability and affordability of child care in our state.
Young Children and Their Families factsheets provide an overview of the numbers of young children, their families’ economic condition and need for child care, their use of various types of publicly-funded types of care and the success of young children when they enter school.
Early Care and Education Use factsheets provide information on the use of various types of early care and education programs and types of funding assistance, including child care subsidy, NC Pre-K and Head Start. Some of these data are broken down by the age of children in care.
Early Care and Education Programs factsheets provide information on the numbers and types of early care and education programs in a county, their licensure and accreditation status, their use of programs to help them improve quality and the market price for programs that charge fees.
Infant and Toddler Care factsheets provide an overview of the state of infant and toddler care in child care centers and family child care homes, including enrollment, market rates, subsidy, and teacher pay and education. Developed in partnership with the North Carolina Think Babies Alliance. The information reported on Infant and Toddler Care factsheets is updated quarterly (approximately every three months), depending on data availability. Until the new quarter, a factsheet with duplicate data is produced each month.
To inform planning, policy development, and investments for early care and education, you may access real-time data about child care demand and supply in every county in North Carolina. This information is provided by the NC Child Care Resource and Referral Council with funding from the NC Division of Child Development and Early Education.
