In 2023, the average annual price for an infant in center-based child care in New Hampshire was $17,250, and $11,402 annually for family child care. The average annual price for both an infant and a four-year old in center-based care was $31,868.[1] The federal government set an affordability benchmark of seven percent of household income ...

Traditional economic theory postulates that when supply is low and demand is high, prices increase. As the supply of a good or service increases to become readily available relative to the demand for it, prices begin to decrease. The child care industry, however, does not function as traditional economic theory would suggest. In New Hampshire ...

Since State Fiscal Year (SFY) 2016, over $555 million in federal and State funding has been, or is currently being, deployed by New Hampshire to support the child care sector. Of those funds, $145.9 million (26 percent) are one-time federal relief dollars associated with the COVID-19 pandemic that have either already expired or will expire ...

Three of the five occupations with the largest projected ten-year growth in New Hampshire are in fields that require college degrees, including registered nurses, general and operations managers, and software developers. Given the need for workers in jobs that require college degrees, access to public higher education for Granite Staters is key, as is its ...

Download a PDF version of this Fact Sheet here. Number of Students in New Hampshire Schools Continues to Decline About 40,300 fewer students were in New Hampshire public schools the last academic year than during 2002-2003. This reduction is driven by long-term demographic changes, as New Hampshire had the largest percentage decline in its child ...