How Affordable is Childcare in Connecticut?

Published: Thu, 05/08/25

Updated: Thu, 05/08/25

Newsletter | May 2025

What are Parents' Experiences with Child Care Access and Affordability in Connecticut?

Among Connecticut families using child care, only 34% of those who were income-eligible for Care 4 Kids subsidies reported using these subsidies. This is one of the findings from the first-ever Connecticut RAPID Survey.

A partnership between The Connecticut Project, Stanford's RAPID Survey Project, and 17 community-based organizations, this survey asked primary caregivers about child care access and affordability. The goal of these surveys is to bring voice and power to parents across the state to help inform programs and policies that are responsive to the needs of Connecticut's families.

Child Care Access and Affordability Dashboard

This user-friendly dashboard allows you to explore key findings from the first Connecticut RAPID Survey broken out by demographic groups, counties, and planning regions.

Explore the Dashboard

Webinar: Parent Perspectives on Child Care Access and Affordability in Connecticut

Join us on June 5th, 2025, for a webinar discussing key findings from the first Connecticut RAPID Survey and CTData's analysis of child care affordability in Connecticut. Our research team will guide participants through navigating the RAPID Survey 1 dashboard and highlight insights about child care access and affordability challenges throughout Connecticut.

This session offers an opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of the issues Connecticut families face and learn how to use the data to inform policy, advocacy, and community decision-making.

How Affordable is Child Care in Connecticut?

We used data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) to analyze the percentage of household income that Connecticut's families would eed to spend to enroll all their young children in market-rate child care. We found that 87% of Connecticut's families would need to spend more than 7% of their household income to afford market-rate, center-based care for all their young children.

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