ChildcareCost
DOL Data · 2022

Turner County, SD

Infant daycare in Turner County, SD costs $120 per week ($6,240 per year) for center-based care, and $100 per week for family daycare. With a median household income of $72,312, the childcare burden is 8.6% of income. This is below the national median of $174/wk.

Infant Center (Weekly)
$120
$6,240/yr
Infant Family (Weekly)
$100
$5,200/yr
Median Income
$72,312
Burden Index
8.6%
Affordable

Cost Breakdown by Age Group

Age GroupCenter/WkCenter/YrFamily/WkFamily/Yr
Infant (0-1)$120$6,240$100$5,200
Toddler (1-2)$120$6,240$100$5,200
Preschool (3-5)$114$5,928$100$5,200
School-Age (6+)$115$5,990$109$5,678
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Turner County Childcare FAQ

Center-based infant care in Turner County costs $120 per week ($6,240 per year). Family-based infant care costs $100 per week ($5,200 per year). Data from the DOL National Database of Childcare Prices.

The Childcare Burden Index for Turner County is 8.6%, rated "Affordable". This means a family earning the median income of $72,312 would spend about 8.6% of their income on infant center-based childcare.

The national median weekly infant center care cost is $174. Turner County at $120/wk is 31% below the national median. Annualized, infant center care in Turner County costs $6,240 per year.

In Turner County, SD, the most affordable option is typically family-based (home) daycare. Infant family daycare costs $100/wk compared to $120/wk for center-based. For preschool-age children, family daycare is $100/wk vs $114/wk at a center. School-age after-care is the least expensive category at $109/wk (family) or $115/wk (center).

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Childcare costs are weekly median prices from the DOL. Burden Index = annual infant center care / median household income.

The this entity record above pulls directly from the DOL National Database of Childcare Prices. What follows is the per-entity context — how this entity sits in the broader U.S. childcare prices distribution and which underlying factors drive the headline numbers.

Every number on this page links back to the DOL National Database of Childcare Prices; the methodology page describes the inputs, refresh cadence, and known limitations of the underlying data product.

Practical use of this page is in combination with the comparison and ranking pages elsewhere on the site, which surface the same data for this entity’s peers within U.S. counties. A single-entity reading without peer context can be misleading when an entity is an outlier on one axis but typical on another.

Source: U.S. Department of Labor Women’s Bureau Childcare Prices, 2026.