Top cities by provider count
Ranked by number of licensed child care facilities
1
Omaha
735 providers
2
Lincoln
358 providers
3
Kearney
88 providers
4
Grand Island
69 providers
5
Bellevue
67 providers
6
Norfolk
55 providers
7
Papillion
49 providers
8
Columbus
49 providers
9
Scottsbluff
37 providers
10
Elkhorn
37 providers
11
Beatrice
31 providers
12
Hastings
31 providers
13
North Platte
28 providers
14
Gretna
28 providers
15
Fremont
27 providers
16
Bennington
23 providers
17
La Vista
21 providers
18
York
20 providers
19
Lexington
18 providers
20
Blair
18 providers
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How this works
Once a week we pull the full NDHHS Child Care Licensing file and rebuild this site — centers, Family Child Care Home I, and Family Child Care Home II. No middleman, no stale spreadsheets. If a provider holds an active Nebraska license, it shows up here.