624410 Child Care Services

Official definition

This industry comprises establishments primarily engaged in providing care and early learning opportunities for infants and children. These establishments generally care for children from birth through school age and may also offer pre-kindergarten, kindergarten, and/or before- or after-school educational programs. The care and early learning provided by these establishments may include opportunities for development in health, social and emotional learning, and family engagement.

Examples Census gives

• Before-school and after-school educational programs, separate from schools
• Child care babysitting services
• Child or infant care centers
• Head Start and Early Head Start programs, separate from schools
• Nursery schools
• Preschool centers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS descriptions.

When to use a different code

Census classifies these close-sounding activities somewhere else. Businesses mainly engaged in:

• Offering kindergarten educational programs are classified in Industry 611110, Elementary and Secondary Schools.
• Providing child and youth social assistance services are classified in Industry 624110, Child and Youth Services.

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS cross-references.

Businesses that use this code

• Child care or daycare

Activities listed under 624410

The Census index assigns these 18 activities to this code. If your business matches one, this is your code.

• Babysitting services in provider's own home, child care
• Babysitting services, child care
• Before-school and after-school educational programs, separate from schools
• Child care babysitting services
• Child care services
• Child care services in provider's own home
• Child care, before or after school, separate from schools
• Child day care centers
• Day care centers, child or infant
• Day care services, child or infant
• Family child care homes (excluding private households employing nannies)
• Group day care centers, child or infant
• Head Start and Early Head Start programs, separate from schools
• Infant care services
• Infant day care centers
• Nursery schools
• Pre-kindergarten centers (except part of elementary school system)
• Preschool centers

Source: US Census Bureau, 2022 NAICS index file.

SBA size standard for 624410

To count as a small business for SBA loans and federal contracts under NAICS 624410, your business (including affiliates) must not exceed $9.5 million in average annual receipts. Check your business.

Source: SBA table of size standards, effective March 17, 2023.

Closest UK SIC 2007 codes

There is no official one-to-one link between NAICS and UK SIC. These codes share the same international class (ISIC Rev. 4: 8890), so treat them as a starting point and check the definition.

• 88910Child day-care activitiesUK SIC
• 88990Other social work activities without accommodation n.e.c.UK SIC

Built from Census concordances 2022→2017 NAICS and 2017 NAICS→ISIC Rev. 4.