Child care in Tennessee

Every one on the record by city and county: open a place for its list, which you can filter by what each record says.

4,006 child care providers in 400 cities and towns and 95 counties. From the Tennessee Department of Human Services, Child Care Services (layer by the State of Tennessee’s STS-GIS): Active Statewide Childcare Locations; and the Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS), Child Care Services, for the programs the Tennessee Department of Education approves: Web Provider List (TDHS’s monthly list of child care providers on www.tn.gov): the programs it lists under the Department of Education.

What Tennessee’s list covers

Child care the Department of Human Services licenses, from the state’s map of it, and the programs Tennessee’s Department of Education approves, from Human Services’ own provider list, which marks them “DOE Approved”.

The biggest cities and towns

By how many child care providers each holds

The biggest counties

By how many child care providers each holds

Every city, town and county, A to Z

Cities and towns400 Counties95

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Yorkville1

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Anderson County42

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Knox County265

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Tennessee Department of Human Services, Child Care Services (layer by the State of Tennessee’s STS-GIS), Active Statewide Childcare Locations. Released Nov 3, 2026. Updated monthly.

Tennessee Department of Human Services (TDHS), Child Care Services, for the programs the Tennessee Department of Education approves, Web Provider List (TDHS’s monthly list of child care providers on www.tn.gov): the programs it lists under the Department of Education. Released Oct 15, 2026. Updated monthly.