Portland, OR · Childcare Centers
Childcare Centers in Portland, by the numbers.
The Census Bureau counted 1,003 child day care services in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area in 2023, employing 9,221 people with $314.6 million in annual payroll.
The local market.
Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023. Figures cover the whole metro area.
1,003
14th most of 387 US metro areas
9,221
9.2 per business, against 13.2 across all metros
$314.6 million
$34,115 per employee
67%
of businesses, against 54% across all metros
+3.7%
in the number of businesses (967 in 2022)
What the numbers say about Portland.
- Portland is in the top tenth of US metro areas by number of child day care services, 14th of 387.
- Businesses here run smaller than average: 9.2 employees each, against 13.2 across all metros.
- Pay runs above the metro average: $34,115 per employee a year, against $30,228.
- The market grew: 36 more businesses than in 2022.
How VERA helps childcare centers in Portland.
The same product everywhere. It prepares the work and waits for your approval before anything goes out.
Tours booked from a page
Publish tour times that show only when you are free. Each tour arrives as a request you confirm, and the family can move it from a link.
A waitlist that moves
Tag waiting families in your contact list by classroom and start date. When a spot opens, VERA drafts the offer to the next family with a reply-by date.
Enrollment paperwork, collected
Send each family a secure link that lists the forms you require. It works only for that request and stops working when it expires.
Questions
Childcare Centers in Portland
How many child day care services are there in Portland?
1,003 in the Portland-Vancouver-Hillsboro, OR-WA Metro Area, according to the Census Bureau's County Business Patterns for 2023. Together they employed 9,221 people and paid $314.6 million in annual payroll.
Is the Portland market for childcare centers growing?
By number of businesses it grew between 2022 and 2023: from 967 to 1,003 (+3.7%).
What does VERA do for childcare centers in Portland?
VERA drafts the quotes, invoices, follow-ups and customer messages a Portland business runs on, and waits for the owner's approval before anything goes out. It is the same software everywhere; this page adds the local numbers.
Childcare Centers in other markets
Other Portland markets
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, County Business Patterns 2023 and 2022, metropolitan statistical areas. The Bureau adds a small amount of noise to these figures to protect individual businesses. The category counted is child day care services, which can be broader or narrower than the trade itself. About the data.
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