NurseryWise Childcare in England
144 councils

What childcare costs where you live

The median hourly fee parents actually pay, in every council in England, from the Department for Education's provider survey. A three-year-old's hour costs £5.00 in Stockton-on-Tees and £11.00 in Westminster. That is the same childcare, more than twice the price.

£6.51median hour, England average of councils
£11.00most expensive: Westminster
£5.00cheapest: Stockton-on-Tees
144councils with reliable figures
Every council

Median hourly fee, most expensive first

These are survey medians for the whole council, not the price at any one nursery. Councils where fewer than ten providers were surveyed are left out rather than shown with a shaky number.

CouncilRegion2-year-old3 to 4-year-old30 funded hours worthSettings
WestminsterLondon£11.25£11.00£12,540168
Richmond upon ThamesLondon£10.00£10.00£11,400373
Hammersmith and FulhamLondon£10.95£10.00£11,400221
LambethLondon£10.00£10.00£11,400513
CamdenLondon£10.01£9.92£11,308244
WandsworthLondon£10.09£9.87£11,251472
Kensington and ChelseaLondon£11.00£9.82£11,194133
Tower HamletsLondon£9.40£9.40£10,716261
HackneyLondon£9.00£9.00£10,260476
HounslowLondon£8.50£8.50£9,690361
IslingtonLondon£9.44£8.50£9,690314
BarnetLondon£9.00£8.50£9,690548
BrentLondon£9.00£8.50£9,690391
NewhamLondon£8.50£8.50£9,690451
Kingston upon ThamesLondon£8.00£8.40£9,576249
MertonLondon£8.00£8.00£9,120399
HaringeyLondon£9.50£8.00£9,120458
HarrowLondon£9.00£8.00£9,120301
EnfieldLondon£9.00£8.00£9,120648
SouthwarkLondon£8.25£8.00£9,120540
Waltham ForestLondon£8.00£8.00£9,120426
GreenwichLondon£8.20£7.72£8,800656
LewishamLondon£8.00£7.50£8,550634
HillingdonLondon£8.00£7.50£8,550381
BromleyLondon£7.50£7.50£8,550627
Barking and DagenhamLondon£7.50£7.50£8,550479
CroydonLondon£7.50£7.50£8,550677
EalingLondon£8.67£7.50£8,550466
SurreySouth East£8.00£7.50£8,5501,896
SuttonLondon£7.50£7.50£8,550350
RedbridgeLondon£8.00£7.40£8,436420
SalfordNorth West£7.20£7.00£7,980305
SandwellWest Midlands£6.50£7.00£7,980242
SloughSouth East£7.50£7.00£7,980142
Milton KeynesSouth East£6.60£7.00£7,980388
Windsor and MaidenheadSouth East£7.50£7.00£7,980215
WokinghamSouth East£7.00£7.00£7,980281
BuckinghamshireSouth East£7.00£7.00£7,980869
HaveringLondon£7.00£7.00£7,980396
HertfordshireEast of England£7.09£7.00£7,9801,937
BedfordEast of England£7.00£6.90£7,866202
West SussexSouth East£7.00£6.87£7,8311,040
BexleyLondon£7.00£6.82£7,774486
Brighton and HoveSouth East£7.00£6.70£7,638264
ReadingSouth East£7.00£6.70£7,638198
South GloucestershireSouth West£7.20£6.70£7,638352
SeftonNorth West£6.50£6.66£7,592165
RutlandEast Midlands–£6.50£7,41030
OxfordshireSouth East£7.00£6.50£7,410841
PortsmouthSouth East£6.90£6.50£7,410180
WalsallWest Midlands£6.67£6.50£7,410169
West BerkshireSouth East£6.00£6.50£7,410208
ThurrockEast of England£6.60£6.50£7,410278
Bracknell ForestSouth East£6.50£6.50£7,410227
DerbyEast Midlands£6.50£6.50£7,410224
Central BedfordshireEast of England£7.00£6.50£7,410475
Cheshire EastNorth West£6.86£6.50£7,410309
EssexEast of England£7.00£6.50£7,4101,712
KentSouth East£7.00£6.50£7,4101,806
MiddlesbroughNorth East–£6.50£7,41087
LutonEast of England£6.70£6.50£7,410196
ManchesterNorth West£7.00£6.50£7,410577
East SussexSouth East£6.50£6.30£7,182429
CambridgeshireEast of England£6.70£6.30£7,182888
CoventryWest Midlands£6.50£6.20£7,068290
HampshireSouth East£6.50£6.20£7,0681,885
NottinghamEast Midlands£7.00£6.20£7,068245
PeterboroughEast of England£6.00£6.00£6,840254
PlymouthSouth West£6.91£6.00£6,840162
Newcastle upon TyneNorth East£6.00£6.00£6,840207
North SomersetSouth West£6.50£6.00£6,840269
North TynesideNorth East£6.30£6.00£6,840165
SouthamptonSouth East£6.00£6.00£6,840228
SheffieldYorkshire and The Humber£6.80£6.00£6,840418
Redcar and ClevelandNorth East£6.00£6.00£6,840116
TorbaySouth West£6.00£6.00£6,840103
TraffordNorth West£6.00£6.00£6,840316
SuffolkEast of England£6.33£6.00£6,840604
Telford and WrekinWest Midlands£6.30£6.00£6,840144
SwindonSouth West£6.00£6.00£6,840244
StaffordshireWest Midlands£6.00£6.00£6,840721
West NorthamptonshireEast Midlands£6.00£6.00£6,840478
WarringtonNorth West£6.00£6.00£6,840213
WarwickshireWest Midlands£6.50£6.00£6,840583
WirralNorth West£6.00£6.00£6,840255
WorcestershireWest Midlands£6.50£6.00£6,840465
Isle of WightSouth East£6.20£6.00£6,84081
HaltonNorth West£6.70£6.00£6,840112
GatesheadNorth East£6.50£6.00£6,840146
GloucestershireSouth West£6.50£6.00£6,840653
LeicesterEast Midlands£7.00£6.00£6,840243
LeicestershireEast Midlands£6.15£6.00£6,840743
DorsetSouth West£6.50£6.00£6,840297
DudleyWest Midlands£6.00£6.00£6,840197
BirminghamWest Midlands£6.50£6.00£6,840969
BarnsleyYorkshire and The Humber£6.00£6.00£6,840255
Bath and North East SomersetSouth West£6.10£6.00£6,840231
WiltshireSouth West£6.20£6.00£6,840628
BoltonNorth West£6.00£5.85£6,669248
Cheshire West and ChesterNorth West£6.00£5.80£6,612306
WolverhamptonWest Midlands£6.00£5.80£6,612159
North YorkshireYorkshire and The Humber£6.00£5.80£6,612543
LincolnshireEast Midlands£6.00£5.75£6,555625
BuryNorth West£7.00£5.71£6,509173
North NorthamptonshireEast Midlands£6.15£5.63£6,418401
North LincolnshireYorkshire and The Humber£6.30£5.62£6,406140
SomersetSouth West£6.00£5.60£6,384468
CornwallSouth West£6.20£5.60£6,384408
DevonSouth West£6.00£5.56£6,338761
KnowsleyNorth West£6.59£5.56£6,338111
NottinghamshireEast Midlands£6.00£5.50£6,270801
NorfolkEast of England£5.66£5.50£6,270627
North East LincolnshireYorkshire and The Humber£6.00£5.50£6,270109
South TynesideNorth East£7.00£5.50£6,27089
RochdaleNorth West£5.75£5.50£6,270262
ShropshireWest Midlands£6.00£5.50£6,270221
YorkYorkshire and The Humber£5.83£5.50£6,270205
WiganNorth West£5.50£5.50£6,270256
StockportNorth West£6.00£5.50£6,270348
WakefieldYorkshire and The Humber£5.50£5.50£6,270306
DerbyshireEast Midlands£6.00£5.50£6,270662
East Riding of YorkshireYorkshire and The Humber£6.00£5.50£6,270274
CumberlandNorth West£6.00£5.50£6,270138
Blackburn with DarwenNorth West£6.00£5.50£6,270123
LiverpoolNorth West£5.50£5.50£6,270323
MedwaySouth East£6.00£5.50£6,270346
KirkleesYorkshire and The Humber£5.50£5.50£6,270411
LancashireNorth West£5.80£5.50£6,2701,043
LeedsYorkshire and The Humber£5.50£5.50£6,270847
OldhamNorth West£5.50£5.33£6,076302
Westmorland and FurnessNorth West£5.75£5.30£6,042118
DoncasterYorkshire and The Humber£5.25£5.25£5,985311
Stoke-on-TrentWest Midlands£6.00£5.20£5,928141
NorthumberlandNorth East£5.50£5.20£5,928210
SunderlandNorth East£6.00£5.04£5,745118
Stockton-on-TeesNorth East£5.00£5.00£5,700153
TamesideNorth West£5.00£5.00£5,700246
RotherhamYorkshire and The Humber£5.00£5.00£5,700228
SolihullWest Midlands£6.00£5.00£5,700222
DarlingtonNorth East£5.00£5.00£5,70086
BlackpoolNorth West£6.00£5.00£5,70074
CalderdaleYorkshire and The Humber£5.50£5.00£5,700196
BradfordYorkshire and The Humber£5.75£5.00£5,700460
HartlepoolNorth East£5.50£5.00£5,70061
Why the funded hours are worth more in some places. The government pays councils a set rate per funded hour, and in expensive areas that rate is further below what nurseries charge. The column above shows what 30 hours over 38 weeks would cost you at the local median if you were paying for it yourself, which is roughly what the entitlement is worth to you. How the schemes work.