Market data
Child care programs in San Marcos: market data
We count 25 child care programs with a San Marcos address in state licensing records, or 36.3 per 100,000 residents. Last checked August 28, 2026.
- Child care programs counted
- 25in a population of 68,920
- Child care programs per 100,000 residents
- 36.3
- ZIP codes with at least one child care program
- 1
- Child care programs with a website
- 80%20 of 25
What stands out
These come out of the numbers rather than from any judgement we made. Each one either compares San Marcos with the other markets we track or points to something uncommon in the San Marcos data itself.
- Child care programs per 100,000 residents: 36.3 in San Marcos, the lowest of the 8 Texas markets we measure.
How San Marcos compares
Each bar shows San Marcos against the middle value across the other markets we measure. A measure with nothing to compare against is left out rather than compared to itself.
Ages served
Programs enrolling each age group, from state licensing records. Infant places are usually the hardest to find.
Program types
Programs of each type, from state licensing records. Centers and licensed home-based care are regulated differently.
Schedules offered
Programs offering each schedule, from state licensing records.
Change over time
Each point is one measurement of this market. We keep every snapshot rather than overwriting it, so the line reflects the market rather than the last time we happened to look.
- 2026-08-2925
- 2026-08-3025
What we could and could not check
25 child care programs are in the public records behind this page. 25 of them meet our bar to appear in the directory. Every share above is calculated over the child care programs we could actually verify, never over the whole market.
Held back for now
- Open Saturday or Sunday
- Too few records to report — we need at least 15.
- Open past 6pm on a weekday
- Too few records to report — we need at least 15.
- Median Google rating
- Too few records to report — we need at least 20.
- Median Google reviews
- Too few records to report — we need at least 20.
- Subsidy accepted
- We have this detail for 40% of the records here, which is too few to describe the whole area.
How these numbers were produced
Counts come from public records for every child care program in this area, whether or not it appears in our directory. That gap is the point: a directory that reports only on itself tells you nothing you could not see by browsing it.
Per-resident figures use a population of 68,920 from the Census Bureau (acs5-2023).
- Licensed capacity is not an open place. A program listed for infants may still have no room this year.
- Ages, schedules, and subsidies come from state licensing records, which can lag what a program currently offers.
- Care that is legally exempt from licensing, including much home and family care, does not appear in these records and is not counted.
Where the records come from
- Texas Child Care Regulation — active licensed centers in the Austin metro — 919 records, retrieved August 28, 2026.
What each figure means
- Child care programs counted
- Every child care program in the underlying public registry for this area, whether or not it has a profile on this site.
- Child care programs per 100,000 residents
- Child care programs counted here divided by the town's own population, expressed per 100,000 residents. Child care programs are counted where they sit, and people routinely drive to the next town, so a town centre surrounded by suburbs reads high and the suburbs read low. Read it as how concentrated child care programs are in this town, not how easy it is for residents to be seen.
- ZIP codes with at least one child care program
- How many distinct ZIP codes in this area have at least one child care program in the registry. A low number next to a high count means the child care programs sit close together.
- Child care programs with a website
- Share of child care programs with a working website on record, out of the child care programs whose contact details we have checked.
- Ages served
- Programs enrolling each age group, from state licensing records. Infant places are usually the hardest to find.
- Program types
- Programs of each type, from state licensing records. Centers and licensed home-based care are regulated differently.
- Schedules offered
- Programs offering each schedule, from state licensing records.
Measured August 30, 2026. The oldest source record behind it was retrieved August 28, 2026.
Use this data
Every figure on this page is available as a CSV, one row per measure, each with the sample it was calculated over. Please cite it as the San Marcos market dataset and link back here.