Licensed Infant Care in Encino, CA

Infant Care in Encino

As of August 2026

Encino is home to 29 licensed child care providers, with family child care homes slightly outnumbering centers, 16 to 13. Combined licensed capacity across the roster totals 1,147 slots, an average of 40 per provider. Every provider is licensed through the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD). CloverMap lets Encino families browse and compare this full, verified roster of listings. The near-even mix gives families a genuinely balanced set of choices to weigh.

What to know about childcare in Encino

Encino's 29 licensed providers lean modestly toward family child care homes, which make up 55 percent of the roster at 16 providers, against 13 centers at 45 percent. That near-even mix gives San Fernando Valley families in Encino a genuine choice between a smaller, residence-based setting and a larger, classroom-style center.

Combined licensed capacity across Encino's 29 providers reaches 1,147, an average of 40 children per site, a moderate figure for a roster with a slight home-based lean. Centers on the list likely carry larger individual capacities, balancing against the higher count of smaller family child care homes to produce this citywide average.

Age coverage runs fairly even across Encino's roster: 79 percent of providers serve preschool-age children, while infants, toddlers, and school-age children are each served by 62 percent. That's a relatively consistent spread across age bands, meaning Encino families searching for any specific age group have a reasonably deep pool of providers to work through.

Every Encino provider is licensed by the California Department of Social Services' Community Care Licensing Division, which regulates family child care homes and centers under separate standards. A current CCLD license reflects that a provider has met the facility, staffing, and health and safety requirements appropriate to its category of care.

With Encino's roster leaning only slightly toward homes, families here can reasonably weigh a center like Encino Parents Nursery School, Inc against one of the city's 16 family child care homes without either type being especially scarce. CloverMap's Encino listings let parents compare the full roster by provider type, capacity, and age coverage. Encino's near-even mix between centers and family child care homes gives families room to compare both models directly, and touring at least one of each before deciding can help identify which setting fits a child's temperament and a family's schedule best. Age-band coverage runs fairly consistently across the roster, so families searching for any specific age group should find a reasonably deep set of providers to work through. Encino families can use the roster as a starting point for a shortlist, then follow up directly with each provider to confirm current age-group availability, since licensing records don't capture day-to-day openings. Touring both a center and a family child care home before deciding can help identify which setting best matches a child's temperament and a family's schedule.