Child care · Small-town market · Pennsylvania
Child care centers and preschools in the Lewistown, PA area
How the Lewistown, PA area compares with other small-town markets 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 1.
- Listings
- 1
- 0 chain locations (0%)
- Official establishments
- 4
- Businesses with payroll, 2023
- Household spending a year
- $7.1M
- On child care and other personal services · $385 a household
- Spending per listing
- $7.1M
- Too few listings to compare
- Listings per 10k households
- 0.5
- Too few listings to compare
- Population, 2025
- 46,127
- 0.0% since 2020
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What this means
Map listings as of September 2026 show 1 child care center or preschool in the Lewistown area. That is 0.5 per 10,000 households.
Household spending on child care and other personal services in the Lewistown area comes to about $7.1M a year: $385 per household, 34% below the U.S. average. That works out to $7.1M per center.
The official count of businesses with payroll classed as child care services in the Lewistown area was 4 in 2023. That is one for every 4,628 households, against one for every 1,573 across the U.S. Official counts list 37 one-person businesses without payroll.
Between 2020 and 2025, the population of the Lewistown area held about level, against +3.1% for the U.S. With 1 child care center or preschool on map listings, the Lewistown area isn’t given a market score: the score needs at least 5, since one listing more or less would swing it.
How the Lewistown area compares
The same measures for Pennsylvania 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 | Lewistown area | Pennsylvania | U.S. |
|---|---|---|---|
| Listings per 10k households | 0.5 | 6.2 | 5.8 |
| Spending per listing | $7.1M | $941K | $1M |
| Households per official establishment | 4,628 | 1,380 | 1,573 |
| Official establishment growth, 2019–2023 | n/a | −0.3% | +5.7% |
| Population growth, 2020–2025 | 0.0% | +0.5% | +3.1% |
| Spending per household on child care and other personal services | $385 | $584 | $581 |
| Median household income | $63,953 | $77,971 | $80,734 |
| Groundwork market score | Not scored | 42 |
Official counts and lending
Businesses
- Official establishments, 2019 to 2023
- 4
- Employees, 2023
- 78
- Annual payroll, 2023
- $2.1M
- One-person businesses, 2023
- 37Businesses with no payroll
- Map listings, September 2026
- 10 chain locations
- Listings at the U.S. rate for this spending
- 7The 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 the Lewistown area, 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 the Lewistown area
- Population, 2025 estimate
- 46,1270.0% since 2020
- Households
- 18,510
- Median age
- 43.3
- Homes lived in by their owners
- 71%
- Vehicles per household
- 1.8
- Land area
- 411 sq. mi.
- People per square mile
- 112
- Median household income
- $63,953+27.4% vs. 2015–2019, before inflation
- Average household income
- $76,786
- Median home value
- $156,700
- Jobs located here
- 16,013
- Daytime population
- 41,059Residents who don’t work, plus everyone whose job is here
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Top small-town markets in Pennsylvania
| Market | Score | Listings | Per 10k households | Spending per listing | Population growth | U.S. rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1Hemlock Farms, PA | 85 | 12 | 4.9 | $1.2M | +7.2% | #9 of 454 |
| 2Somerset, PA | 66 | 9 | 3.1 | $1.3M | −2.7% | #105 of 454 |
| 3Pottsville, PA | 66 | 21 | 3.6 | $1.2M | +1.5% | #106 of 454 |
| 4Meadville, PA | 66 | 12 | 3.5 | $1.1M | −2.4% | #107 of 454 |
| 5Bloomsburg-Berwick, PA | 64 | 10 | 3.8 | $1.2M | +2.3% | #116 of 454 |
| 6Warren, PA | 63 | 6 | 3.7 | $1.1M | −3.8% | #120 of 454 |
| 7Hermitage, PA | 63 | 20 | 4.3 | $982K | −2.4% | #121 of 454 |
| 8Indiana, PA | 62 | 11 | 3.4 | $1.2M | −0.3% | #127 of 454 |
| 9Oil City, PA | 56 | 7 | 3.3 | $1.2M | −2.0% | #177 of 454 |
| 10Lock Haven, PA | 56 | 7 | 4.5 | $942K | +1.3% | #179 of 454 |
| Lewistown, PA | Not scored | 1 | 0.5 | $7.1M | 0.0% |
Other business types in the Lewistown area
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 the Lewistown, PA area?
There is 1 child care center or preschool on map listings in the Lewistown area as of September 2026. The listings count day care centers and preschools. Official counts show 4 businesses with payroll classed as child care services in 2023. Official counts also show 37 one-person businesses without payroll.
How much do households in the Lewistown, PA area spend on child care and other personal services?
About $7.1M a year, or $385 per household. That is 34% below the U.S. average (an index of 66, where 100 is the U.S. average). Spread across the 1 child care center or preschool on map listings, it comes to $7.1M per center. It is estimated from the incomes of the 18,510 households in the Lewistown area and national spending patterns by income.
How does the Lewistown, PA area compare with the U.S. for child care centers and preschools?
The Lewistown area has 1 child care center or preschool on map listings, too few for a steady comparison with the U.S. rate. At the national ratio of child care centers and preschools to household spending, the Lewistown area would have about 7, against 1 on map listings. There is one business with payroll in the industry for every 4,628 households, against one for every 1,573 across the U.S.
How fast is the Lewistown, PA area growing?
Population estimates put the Lewistown area at 46,127 people in 2025, unchanged since 2020, against +3.1% for the U.S. It has 18,510 households. The median household income in the Lewistown area is $63,953 a year, 21% below the U.S. median of $80,734. That rose 27.4% 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. A small-town market is a town of 10,000 to 50,000 people and the county or counties tied to it by commuting. 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. The Lewistown area has no market score for child care centers and preschools: the score needs at least 5 on map listings, and it has 1.
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