KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City-area parents already know that child care costs take a bite out of their budgets.

The National Database of Childcare Costs is actively tracking these changes as inflation and other variables keep pushing that number up. FOX4 is taking a deeper look at the NDCC’s most recent data from 2018 adjusted to 2022 dollars.

FOX4’s Christel Bell is taking a deeper look at the crisis and a possible answer to the problem. You can watch her special report here.

Overall, the agency estimates that depending on provider type, the price per year of child care for a single child can range from $5,357 to $17,171 in 2022 dollars.

Considering median family incomes, that means families are spending anywhere from 8% to 19.3% of their yearly income on child care per child. But keep in mind, 29% of parents with a a child under 6 have two more children in that age range.

So how do those numbers look in the Kansas City metro? We took the numbers for the four main Kansas City-area counties:

Source: National Database of Childcare Prices 2016-2018, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. To see an interactive map, visit this site.
Source: National Database of Childcare Prices 2016-2018, Women’s Bureau, U.S. Department of Labor. To see an interactive map, visit this site.

See Christel Bell’s full report Monday on FOX4 News at 10 p.m.