Licensed Daycares in Hemet, CA

Daycare & Childcare in Hemet

As of August 2026

Hemet's 22 licensed child care providers lean home-based: 34 family child care homes against 24 centers, a 59/41 split favoring homes. Licensed capacity totals 1,967 slots, averaging 34 per provider. Coverage across every age group is strong here, topped by 90% of providers serving preschoolers and 64% serving infants and toddlers. Providers are licensed through California's Community Care Licensing Division. Parents can compare Hemet's providers directly through CloverMap's verified listings.

What to know about childcare in Hemet

Home-based care leads in Hemet, where 34 of the city's 58 providers are family child care homes and 24 are centers -- a 59% to 41% split. That's a meaningfully different mix than center-heavy cities elsewhere on this list, and it means Hemet families are more likely to encounter smaller, single-caregiver settings run out of a residence than large multi-classroom facilities, though centers remain a substantial part of the roster too and shouldn't be overlooked by families who prefer that more structured setting.

Combined licensed capacity across Hemet's 58 providers reaches 1,967 children, an average of roughly 34 slots per provider. Because homes generally hold fewer children per site than centers, and homes make up the majority here, that average sits in the middle of the range for this batch of cities -- individual centers on the roster likely run above it, individual homes likely run below it, so the citywide figure is best treated as a rough guide rather than a promise for any one address.

Age-group coverage in Hemet is among the strongest in this batch: 37 providers report serving infants (64%), 37 report toddlers (64%), 52 report preschoolers (90%), and 36 report school-age children (62%). The 90% preschool figure and the consistently high infant and toddler numbers suggest Hemet families have relatively wide access across every stage from infancy through school age, rather than gaps at the youngest or oldest end of the range that show up in some other cities on this list.

Hemet's providers are licensed and monitored through California's Community Care Licensing Division (CCLD), part of the California Department of Social Services. Both centers and family child care homes carry the same underlying license type structure, meeting state requirements for staffing, safety, and facility conditions, with CCLD maintaining ongoing oversight of every site on the roster for as long as that provider remains open.

For Hemet parents, the home-heavy roster means it's worth including family child care homes in the search from the start rather than defaulting to centers, since homes make up the larger share of providers here. With infant and toddler coverage both well above the levels seen in some other cities, families with younger children should have more options to compare. CORNERSTONE CHRISTIAN PRESCHOOL is one named provider on the roster; CloverMap lets parents look through the full list of both centers and homes together and filter by the ages each one serves.