Child care · County · Oklahoma
Child care centers and preschools in Love County, OK
How Love County, OK compares with other counties and the U.S. for child care centers and preschools: competitors, household spending, official counts and growth.
Groundwork market score
Not scored
The score needs at least 5 listings; this market has 2.
- Listings
- 2
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- n/a
- Fewer than 3, or not published
- Household spending a year
- $1.5M
- On child care and other personal services · $384 a household
- Spending per listing
- $748K
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 5.1
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 10,780
- +6.1% since 2020
See the child care centers and preschools around any address in Love County
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 2 child care centers and preschools in Love County. That is 5.1 per 10,000 households.
Households in Love County spend about $1.5M a year on child care and other personal services, or $384 per household, 34% below the U.S. average. That is about $748K of household spending for each center on map listings.
There is no official count of businesses with payroll classed as child care services in Love County: counts under 3 aren’t published. Official counts also show 10 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of Love County grew 6.1%, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). With 2 child care centers and preschools on map listings, Love County isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How Love County compares
The same measures for Oklahoma and the whole U.S. Spending per listing divides a year of household spending on all child care and other personal services by the child care centers and preschools counted, so it measures the demand for each competitor, not any business’s revenue. Households per establishment does the same with the official count.
| Measure | Love County | Oklahoma | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 5.1 | 5.5 | 5.8 |
| Spending per listing | $748K | $735K | $1M |
| Households per official establishment | n/a | 1,481 | 1,573 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | +9.2% | +5.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | +6.1% | +4.0% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on child care and other personal services | $384 | $406 | $581 |
| Median household income | $66,580 | $65,039 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 37 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- n/a
- Employees, 2023
- n/a
- Annual payroll, 2023
- n/a
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 10Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 20 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 2The U.S. ratio of listings to household spending, applied here
SBA-backed loans since fiscal 2022
- Loans
- 0
- Amount
- $0
SBA-backed loans to businesses classed as child care services in Love County, through June 2026, placed by the borrower’s ZIP code. Official establishments are businesses with payroll; the official counts leave out places with fewer than 3.
Population and households in Love County
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 10,780+6.1% since 2020
- Households
- 3,899
- Median age
- 39.2
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 73%
- Vehicles per household
- 2.2
- Land area
- 514 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 20
- Median household income
- $66,580+34.8% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $85,462
- Median home value
- $171,000
- Jobs located here
- 5,191
- Daytime population
- 11,258Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
Looking at a specific site in Love County?
These figures cover the whole county. A site report draws rings around one address and counts what’s inside them: households, spending, jobs, and the child care centers and preschools on map listings by name and distance.
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Every Oklahoma market ranked →The highest-scoring counties in Oklahoma for child care centers and preschools, numbered among those based in Oklahoma, with Love County marked.
Top counties in Oklahoma
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Wagoner County, OK | 83 | 8 | 2.5 | $1.8M | +14.6% | #52 of 1,611 |
| 2Grady County, OK | 81 | 7 | 3.4 | $1.3M | +7.7% | #73 of 1,611 |
| 3Rogers County, OK | 74 | 9 | 2.5 | $1.9M | +7.1% | #168 of 1,611 |
| 4Payne County, OK | 66 | 10 | 3.1 | $1.2M | +2.8% | #361 of 1,611 |
| 5Canadian County, OK | 63 | 31 | 5.3 | $922K | +20.4% | #462 of 1,611 |
| 6McClain County, OK | 56 | 9 | 5.5 | $880K | +18.4% | #663 of 1,611 |
| 7Tulsa County, OK | 50 | 162 | 5.9 | $747K | +4.2% | #831 of 1,611 |
| 8Sequoyah County, OK | 49 | 6 | 3.9 | $797K | +4.1% | #851 of 1,611 |
| 9Kay County, OK | 46 | 6 | 3.6 | $972K | −0.3% | #917 of 1,611 |
| 10Oklahoma County, OK | 45 | 182 | 5.5 | $786K | +3.0% | #958 of 1,611 |
| Love County, OK | Not scored | 2 | 5.1 | $748K | +6.1% |
Other business types in Love County
Each with its Groundwork market score here, out of 100, where it has one.
Food and drink
Groceries and convenience
Auto
Beauty and personal care
Fitness and classes
Health care
Child care
- Child care and preschools
Clothing and laundry
Home services
Real estate
Funeral services
Questions
How many child care centers and preschools are in Love County, OK?
There are 2 child care centers and preschools on map listings in Love County as of September 2026. The listings count day care centers and preschools. No official count is published for child care services in Love County: counts under 3 are left out. Official counts list 10 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in Love County, OK spend on child care and other personal services?
About $1.5M a year, or $384 per household. That is 34% below the U.S. average (an index of 66, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 2 child care centers and preschools on map listings, it comes to $748K per center. It is estimated from the incomes of the 3,899 households in Love County and national spending patterns by income.
How does Love County, OK compare with the U.S. for child care centers and preschools?
Love County has 2 child care centers and preschools on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. The count on map listings matches the U.S. ratio of child care centers and preschools to household spending.
How fast is Love County, OK growing?
Population estimates put Love County at 10,780 people in 2025, up 6.1% since 2020, faster than the U.S. (+3.1%). It has 3,899 households. The median household income in Love County is $66,580 a year, 18% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 34.8% from the 2015–2019 survey, before inflation.
What is the Groundwork market score?
The Groundwork market score runs from 0 to 100 and compares a market with others of its kind for one business type: states with states, metro areas with metro areas, small-town markets and counties with their own. It weighs household spending per competitor (35%), households per business with payroll (25%), population growth (20%) and spending power (20%), each ranked against those peers. A higher score means that, taken together, the market has more household spending and more households for each business already there, faster population growth and more spending per household than similar markets. It describes a market, not any one site or deal. Love County has no market score for child care centers and preschools: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 2.
How can I see the market around a specific site?
Run a Groundwork site report on an address in Love County. It maps the child care centers and preschools on map listings near the site and sizes the households and spending within the distance you choose. New accounts get 10 actions over 3 days, no card.
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