As the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary this year, Lewisville ranks the 215th largest city in the nation.

In a Denton County seat of 128,000 in the northern DFW suburbs, a Lewisville family pays $13,139 a year for infant center care against a $85,002 median household income — about 8% above the national figure but materially below the Carrollton-Plano-Frisco income tier just to the north. The arithmetic produces a 15.5% childcare cost burden and a 62/100 score on Beverly's the score, ranking 35th nationally and 12th in Texas. Mothers' labor-force participation runs 70%, and 72% of households with young kids have all available parents working. The drag, relative to nearby Carrollton, is the single-parent share: 33%, the highest in this Texas batch. The same $13,139 bill that lands as a logistics line in two-earner households lands hard on a single income.

Key highlights & actionable takeaways

35th nationally, score 62 (Moderate) — Denton County seat of 128,000 in the northern DFW suburbs.
Mothers' LFP 70%; 72% of households with young kids have all available parents working.
Single-parent share 33% — highest in this Texas batch; $13,139 tuition lands hard on the single-income half.

Actionable takeaways

Lewisville is where the Plano-Frisco belt ends and the regular DFW suburb begins. Same Denton County tuition, but $20K-$50K less in median household income. Reporters covering north Texas should treat Lewisville as the cluster's economic boundary line.
The 33% single-parent share is the city's structural distinction. Inside an 8-city cluster of high-LFP, low-single-parent suburbs, Lewisville stands out. Local follow-ups should examine LISD pre-K enrollment splits and Denton County CCDF participation for the 75067/75077 ZIPs.
Supply growth is lagging the under-five population. Capacity has expanded but not as fast as demand, and Lewisville sits at the southern edge of Denton County's faster-growing belt — the supply-pace question is the most useful local-watch metric.

Affordability — 89/100

Center-based infant care in Lewisville averages $13,139 a year, roughly $1,095 a month. Denton County, which Lewisville anchors, sits in the middle band of national infant-care prices and tracks closely with the rest of north-Dallas. Median household income in Lewisville is $85,002 — about 8% above the national median and 11% above the Texas state median — putting infant care at 15.5% of household income. That is well under the 21.9% national burden but materially heavier than the 13% load that sits on the Carrollton-Plano-Frisco income tier just to the north.

Family child care comes in at $11,442 a year, a notable discount on center care. Toddler center care runs $12,024, preschool $11,102. A typical Lewisville family with one infant in center care pays roughly $4,000 less per year than the national median household pays for the same care, but the math is genuinely tighter for the city's larger single-parent population, where the same $13,139 bill lands on a single income.

Supply — 60/100

Lewisville counts roughly 56 licensed slots for every 100 kids under five with working parents, with 182 licensed establishments in its Denton County footprint — a density of 3.3 per thousand kids under five. This is a moderate supply reading rather than a strong one, and it tracks Denton County's general profile as one of the faster-growing pieces of the DFW metroplex: capacity has expanded but not as fast as the under-five population behind it. This is not a childcare desert. Texas's statewide BPC supply gap of 7.9% remains the smallest in the country, and Lewisville inherits that broader benefit.

Workforce — 33/100

Childcare workers in the Lewisville-Dallas County area market earn a median $14.31 an hour — $29,760 a year, slightly above the Texas state median. The local single-adult living wage is $24.14 an hour, putting childcare wages at 59% of what one adult needs to live in the area. The pattern matches the broader DFW suburban arc: workers cannot afford to live in the school districts where they care for the children of the families who can. Texas offers no state-funded workforce supplement.

Family strain — 58.0/100

Seventy percent of Lewisville mothers with kids under six are in the labor force — two points above the national 68% — and 72% of households with young kids have all available parents working. The strain score lands in the middle of this batch rather than the top because the city's single-parent share, at 33%, is the highest of the eight Texas cities profiled here and runs slightly above the national 32%. That structural difference produces a meaningfully different lived experience: a Lewisville single mother with an infant in center care faces a $13,139 bill against a household income that, for single-parent households nationally, sits well below the city's $85,002 all-household median.

Policy support — 48.1/100

Texas policy inherits down to Lewisville. The state enrolls 52% of four-year-olds in pre-K and spends $4,682 per child. Texas offers no state-mandated paid family leave. CCDF subsidy reach covers 16.4% of eligible kids statewide. Texas meets two of NIEER's ten quality benchmarks. The policy ceiling matters more for Lewisville's larger single-parent household share than it does for the affluent dual-income suburbs further north. Policy is measured at the state level.

In-home care in Lewisville

In-home care in Lewisville typically reflects broader north-DFW nanny market patterns, with full-time live-out rates in the Denton County suburbs running in line with the Carrollton-Plano arc. Nanny shares between two families are an increasingly common solution for the under-three years, particularly inside the most-demanded LISD school district boundaries. Au pair hosting is well-established among the corporate-relocation households that anchor much of the local demographic, drawing on DFW-area coordinators from the State Department-designated J-1 sponsor agencies.

Methodology: The the score is a 0-100 composite score across five dimensions: Affordability (30 pts), Supply (25 pts), Workforce Health (15 pts), Family Strain (15 pts), and Policy Support (15 pts). City-level prices and supply use the city's primary containing county. Policy Support is measured at the state level. Full methodology and data sources: beverly.io/research/methodology.

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau ACS 2019-2023 5-year estimates; U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau National Database of Childcare Prices; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics OEWS (May 2024) and QCEW; Buffett Early Childhood Institute / Bipartisan Policy Center / Child Care Aware childcaregap.org (Sept 2025); NIEER State of Preschool Yearbook 2024; HHS ACF CCDF FY2023; National Partnership for Women & Families (March 2026).

Methodology. The State of Childcare Index is a 0-100 composite score across five dimensions: Affordability (30 pts), Supply (25 pts), Workforce Health (15 pts), Family Strain (15 pts), and Policy Support (15 pts). Each dimension draws on publicly available federal data: U.S. Census ACS (5-year), DOL Women's Bureau NDCP, BLS OEWS and QCEW, the Buffett/BPC/CCAoA childcaregap.org dataset, NIEER State of Preschool, and HHS ACF CCDF reports. City-level prices and supply use the city's primary containing county. Policy Support is measured at the state level. Full methodology and data sources: /research/methodology.