The Houston area is one of the\u00a0nation’s cheapest major metros to raise a child, but childcare costs\u00a0continue to rise, a new report found.<\/p>\n
Families with at least one child in the Houston area, including The Woodlands can expect to spend\u00a0more than $22,600 annually per child, according to financial technology company SmartAsset. That’s a 3.4% cost increase from last year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The personal finance company used MIT Living Wage Calculator data to compare the living costs of a household with two working adults and one child to those of a childless household. Among 48 major metros analyzed in the study, the Houston area was the seventh cheapest region.<\/p>\n
Over the past few years, Houston families have seen the cost of raising a child rise, including childcare, food, medical care, housing and other necessities. Back in 2024, estimated expenses were nearly $21,400.<\/p>\n
According to SmartAsset’s study, only two metro areas in the country saw those costs\u00a0decline: Richmond, Virginia, and Virginia Beach, Virginia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Houston area is one of the\u00a0nation’s cheapest major metros to raise a child, but childcare costs\u00a0continue to…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":373259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[56,58,57],"class_list":["post-373258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=373258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/373258\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/373259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=373258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=373258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=373258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}