Licensed Full-Day Daycare in Chatsworth, CA

Full-Day Daycare in Chatsworth

As of August 2026

Chatsworth families choosing licensed child care have 27 providers to consider, 19 centers and 8 family child care homes, per California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD). Centers outnumber homes here, 70% to 30%, giving Chatsworth a program-heavy footprint with roughly 933 total licensed slots across the roster and an average of about 35 slots per provider. Preschool coverage is the widest age band on the roster, at 74% of providers. CloverMap lets parents browse the full, verified list of Chatsworth providers directly.

What to know about childcare in Chatsworth

Chatsworth counts 27 providers in the state's licensing data, 19 center-based and 8 home-based (70% and 30% respectively). Centers tend to group children by age into separate rooms with a rotating or fixed staff roster; family child care homes keep the group smaller and often mix ages together under one or two consistent caregivers. With 19 centers and 8 homes represented, Chatsworth parents have a real choice between the two models, and comparing a handful of each before deciding is realistic given how many providers appear on the roster.

Combined, Chatsworth's providers report licensed capacity for about 933 children citywide, an average of roughly 35 enrolled slots per provider. That average sits above what a single small program alone could offer, reflecting the presence of larger centers in the mix alongside smaller home-based operations. Capacity figures are one of the more concrete data points available on a roster like this, since they come directly from what each provider has reported rather than from a general estimate, and they give parents a rough sense of how competitive enrollment might be at any given time.

Of Chatsworth's 27 providers, 20 (74%) list preschool coverage, 10 (37%) serve school-age children, and infant and toddler care is offered by 13 and 13 providers respectively (48% and 48%). Families searching for infant care specifically will have a narrower field to work with than those searching for preschool, so it's worth confirming age-group availability early in a search rather than assuming every provider on the roster serves every age.

The agency behind Chatsworth's child care roster is California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), part of the California Department of Social Services. CCLD licenses centers and family child care homes as two distinct categories, each with its own operating requirements for staffing and group composition. Understanding that split helps explain why Chatsworth's providers are listed the way they are — as centers or as homes, not a single blended category — and it's a useful frame for reading any provider's listing, since the category itself tells a family something about scale and setting before they even reach out.

Because centers make up 70% of Chatsworth's roster, most searches here will start with center-based programs — larger, staffed operations with set enrollment periods. Parents who specifically want a smaller, home-based setting still have 8 family child care homes to consider, a smaller slice of the market worth asking about directly since it's less visible by sheer numbers than the center-heavy majority. One provider on Chatsworth's roster, "31ST DIST PTSA CREATIVE KIDS-SUPERIOR STREET", illustrates the kind of listing CloverMap surfaces alongside licensing category, reported capacity, and age-group coverage for the rest of the city's providers.

For a family narrowing a list of Chatsworth providers, the most useful filters tend to be format (center versus family child care home), age group served, and reported capacity — all of which are available on the roster itself before a single phone call is made. Out of 27 total providers, cross-referencing those three data points typically narrows a citywide list down to a short set worth contacting directly, which is a more efficient starting point than reaching out to every listed provider in Chatsworth one by one.