NAICS 62441Industry · 5-digitlocal market2 market records

Child day-care services

SoftwareChildcare Centre Management 624410

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing day-care services for infants or children. These establishments may care for older children when they are not in school and may also offer pre-kindergarten educational programs. — Statistics Canada, NAICS 2022A

Establishments · CanadaA: 14,811
Under 10 employeesA: 46%
Establishments · USA: 80,120
Employment · USA: 966,107
Payroll · USA: $27.5B

Size and shape

How many businesses there are and how small they are. Fragmentation is the first thing an entrant — or anyone selling software into this industry — needs to know, and it is one of the few things that is actually measured.

Canadian establishments by number of employeesA

1–43,53224%

5–93,26022%

10–194,78432%

20–492,94620%

50–992592%

100–199250%

200–49940%

500+10%

Of 14,811 Canadian establishments with employees, 46% have fewer than ten — weighted toward mid-sized establishments.

Where they areA

Ontario4,16228%

Quebec4,02327%

British Columbia2,52017%

Alberta1,91713%

Largest four provinces by establishment count. Establishments with employees only — sole operators with no payroll are not in this table, so in trades and personal services the true number of businesses is higher.

How many new establishments are still tradingA

Health Care and Social Assistance, US · opened 2020

84%

1 year

65.3%

3 years

52.6%

5 years

36.4%

10 years

opened 2015

Measured, not forecast: the share of US establishments opening in one year that were still active later. It counts good operators and bad ones together, which is exactly why it is the honest answer to “what are the odds”. It is for the whole sector rather than this market, and the ten-year figure comes from an older cohort because no younger one has reached ten years.

How businesses here compete

The structural profile of subsector 624, which every industry beneath it inherits. This is analyst judgment from how the subsector is organised — not research into this industry, and not a measurement.

local competitionlow capitalUNVERIFIEDinherited from 624 Social assistance

Mostly funded by public agreements at rates set by the funder. Childcare is the largest private segment, and fee-cap programmes now set its price too.

Who sets the price: Government funding agreements and fee caps.
The software it runs on: Childcare management, case management for social services.

Market screens and studies

Market-entry records filed along this branch of the hierarchy. A record at or beneath this code is about this industry; one above it is about something wider that contains it.

Operating businessScreenedfiled at 624410

Child Care Centre OperationOne thing must be true

binding constraint: entry cost + regulatory drag

Under the $10-a-day agreements the parent fee is set by policy and the operating margin is a function of a provincial funding formula that can be rewritten between budgets, while wages, rent and ratios are not negotiable. Expansion is gated by licensed space and by early-childhood educator supply, which no amount of capital fixes quickly. The software serving this industry is screened separately at the same code — that record and this one describe two different businesses at the same address.

NAICS 6244104 vendors named12 sourced figuresOpen →

Software serving this industry

The vertical software markets filed along the same branch — who sells to these businesses and who they would have to displace — and then the generic categories every business buys whatever it does.

Vertical softwareScreenedfiled at 624410

Childcare Centre ManagementOne thing must be true

binding constraint: willingness to pay

Incumbent Brightwheel

Centres run on thin, often subsidy-dependent margins with high staff turnover and low software budgets. Brightwheel and Procare already cover the parent-communication and billing core. Nothing is disclosed here. Every vendor named on this record is private, or sits inside a parent that does not break the line out, so no revenue floor can be built and the market size is genuinely unknown rather than estimated.

NAICS 6244103 vendors namedOpen →

And what every business buys · 25 generic categories

Sold to every industry rather than this one, so they are filed against the software industry's own code. The same few vendors recur across most of them.

Companies in this industry · 10

Every company this research names that is filed here or beneath — the operators, and the vendors that sell to them — largest disclosed revenue first. The rank is within the company’s own six-digit industry.

Company	Filed under	Revenue	Rank
KinderCare Learning CompaniesPrivate	Child day-care services624410	$2.7B	1/10
Bright HorizonsNYSE:BFAM	Child day-care services624410	—	2/10
BrightPathPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	3/10
BrightwheelPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	4/10
Kangaroo TimePrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	5/10
Kids & CompanyPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	6/10
LillioPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	7/10
Procare SolutionsPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	8/10
WonderschoolPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	9/10
Xplor EducationPrivate	Child day-care services624410	—	10/10

Who works here

The occupations employed in Health care and social assistance, most concentrated in it first. The share is measured against the whole sector, not this industry — the published cross-tabulation stops there.

Concentrated in this sectorA

Managers in health care One industry 98.6%

Nursing and allied health professionals One industry 95.1%

Technical occupations in dental health care One industry 89.9%

Therapy and assessment professionals One industry 89.5%

Dentists, optometrists and audiologists One industry 89%

Physicians and veterinarians One industry 88.5%

Assisting occupations in support of health services One industry 85.9%

Practitioners of natural healing One industry 83.4%

Technical occupations in therapy and assessment One industry 77.9%

Home care provider occupations One industry 72.1%

These jobs are mostly done here. An operator in this industry is competing for them against others in the same industry, not against the whole economy.

And the jobs every business has

Office administrative assistants - general, legal and medical Across the economy 22.1%

Administrative, property and payroll officers Across the economy 18.6%

Shoe repairers, shoemakers and upholsterers Across the economy 12.6%

Survey, statistical and data entry occupations Across the economy 9.3%

Administrative and financial supervisors Across the economy 7.1%

Building maintenance installers, servicers and repairers Across the economy 6.7%

Legislative and senior managers Across the economy 5.7%

Financial, insurance and related administrative support workers Across the economy 4.8%

Technical occupations in computer and information systems Across the economy 4.6%

Administrative services managers Across the economy 4.5%

Found across at least fourteen of the twenty sectors. In a small establishment several of these are usually one person, or an outside provider.

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Inside this industry

1 row sits directly beneath 62441. Each has a base report of its own.

Code	Industry	Establishments · CA	What is known
624410	Child day-care services	14,811	Child Care Centre Operation Childcare Centre Management