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Richmond County, NY — Day care Saturation

How many day care exist per person present — residents plus daytime workers — by ZIP code, compared with the U.S. average. Establishment data: Census ZBP 2023. Population: ACS 2024 5-year. 13 ZIP codes analyzed.

Includes: Child day care centers · Preschools & pre-K · Family home day care · After-school programs. Counted together because official statistics use one 624410 code.

Measured density: Above average — 1.27× the U.S. rate

Why a range: Census does not publish a ZIP-by-industry count when that ZIP has 0–2 businesses. 1 ZIP cells in this county are withheld, 0 of them with residents. Each could hold 0, 1, or 2 businesses: counting them all as 0 gives the low end, counting them all as 2 gives the high end — the data cannot say where the truth sits. The density range uses only the populated cells, since ZIPs without residents are excluded from per-person rates. How ranges work

Above the U.S. rate   Richmond County day care — 127% of the U.S. rate

142 day care are counted in Richmond County — 2.6 per 10,000 people present (residents + daytime workers), 127% of the U.S. rate of 2.0.

On the comparable ZIP set (ZIPs with a published count in every year), the total has risen 14% between 2015 and 2023 (122 → 139). That set is smaller than today's county total. 2020–2021 were pandemic-distorted, and Census rounds counts, so small moves are within noise.

Measured supply density is highest in 10303 (Staten Island), 10310 (Staten Island), 10302 (Staten Island) — well above the national rate. On measured density alone, the lowest-density residential ZIPs with a published count are 10312 (Staten Island), 10314 (Staten Island), 10309 (Staten Island).

Census County Business Patterns (2023) puts the county-wide count at 141 establishments, including locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA — so it can run slightly above the sum of the ZIP rows on this page. It is annual, so it lags more than QCEW.

Measured density: Richmond County sits at 127% of the U.S. rate for day care. The highest measured density is in 10303 and 10310; the lowest measured density is in 10312 and 10314.

This is a supply-side read: it counts existing day care and the people present, not foot traffic, income, rent, or whether locals want more. Treat low density as a question to check, not an answer.

Day care
142–144
published count; upper bound counts each withheld ZIP cell as 2 (1 cells) (2023)
Per 10,000 present
2.6
residents + daytime workers
U.S. average
2.0
per 10,000 present
County index
1.27×
vs. U.S.
Latest year (CBP)
141
2023 — $51M annual payroll
Residents
494,956
12 ZIPs with data
Workers
115,038
jobs located in county

Is the area growing?

Population
498,212
Census PEP, July 1 2024
Change since 2020
+0.6%
+3,099 people
Net migration 2024
+2,543
international +3,783, domestic −1,240
Jobs located here
128,538
LODES 2022, +6.1% since 2019

Richmond County had an estimated 498,212 residents on July 1, 2024 — 0.6% more than in 2020 (+3,099). In the latest year it gained 3,438 people: births minus deaths +865, international migration +3,783, domestic migration −1,240. Components are published separately and may not sum exactly.

128,538 jobs were located in the county in 2022 (+6.1% since 2019), and 219,955 employed residents lived there (+1.7% since 2019). LODES counts wage and salary jobs covered by unemployment insurance plus federal jobs; it excludes the self-employed and military, and counts jobs rather than unique people. 2019→2022 spans the pandemic, so read it as one change, not a trend.

Population and migration say whether the customer base is growing. They do not say whether people want another business of this type. Definitions and limits →  ·  Full county detail →

Nonemployer businesses (no paid employees)

Nonemployer businesses
883
no paid employees (2024)
Receipts
$17.4M
published gross receipts
Receipts per business
$20K
gross, not profit

Census Nonemployer Statistics counts businesses with no paid employees — a separate universe from the employer establishments counted above; a business is in one or the other, never both. They are not storefronts by definition: many are home-based, mobile, or part-time.

We show them beside the density index, not inside it. In categories such as nail and beauty salons, child care, and pet care, one-person businesses can outnumber employer establishments, so the employer-only count understates how many businesses exist. That is not evidence of higher demand.

Receipts are gross revenue reported for these businesses — not profit, and not the size of the local market. Census publishes this only at county level, so it is not shown on the ZIP map. See methodology.

Saturation map

Each ZIP area is shaded by its density of this business type per person present (residents + workers) vs. the U.S. average. Click any ZIP to zoom to its boundary, see its numbers, and switch to aerial imagery. Individual mapped shops appear as dots at street level — Show locations zooms you in to them (scroll or double-click to zoom).

Basemap:
Under 50% 50–100% 100–150% 150–250% 250%+ 0–2 (not published) / no data ZIP total (dot size) Mapped shop (OpenStreetMap, street level)

Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, tiles by OpenFreeMap.

White dots are ZIP totals from the official Census count — the bigger the dot, the more day care in that ZIP. They are aggregated, not individual shops. Turquoise dots are individual locations mapped in OpenStreetMap, shown only at street level; they are crowd-sourced and indicative, may be incomplete, and do not equal the official counts. Only the official ZIP totals feed the saturation index.

Market trend — up 14% since 2015

Number of day care in Richmond County across 2015–2023, on a consistent set of ZIP codes present in every year — so changes are real, not ZIP-boundary artifacts. 2015/2018 are pre-pandemic baselines; 2020/2021 are COVID-distorted.

122
2015
122
2018
116
2020
118
2021
116
2022
139
2023

Highest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
10303 Staten Island
298%
10310 Staten Island
183%
10302 Staten Island
160%
10305 Staten Island
153%
10308 Staten Island
140%
10304 Staten Island
140%
10301 Staten Island
129%
10306 Staten Island
125%
10307 Staten Island
90%
10309 Staten Island
87%
10314 Staten Island
85%
10312 Staten Island
81%

Lowest measured density

ZIP
vs. U.S. average
Index
10312 Staten Island
81%
10314 Staten Island
85%
10309 Staten Island
87%
10307 Staten Island
90%
10306 Staten Island
125%
10301 Staten Island
129%
10304 Staten Island
140%
10308 Staten Island
140%
10305 Staten Island
153%
10302 Staten Island
160%
10310 Staten Island
183%
10303 Staten Island
298%
Low measured density is not evidence of opportunity. A ZIP with few day care may simply lack foot traffic, retail space, or demand. We rank only residential and mixed ZIPs here; employment hubs and visitor destinations are listed separately below. ZIPs where Census did not publish a count (0–2 businesses) are not ranked: they may be the least served of all, but the data cannot tell 0 from 1 or 2. Verify those locally.

All ZIP codes

Click a column header to sort. Index = day care per 10,000 people present (residents + 0.5×workers) ÷ the U.S. average. 100% = exactly average.

ZIPNeighborhood ResidentsWorkersDay care Per 10kIndexStatus
10303Staten Island 26,4976,521 18 6.0 298% Very high density
10310Staten Island 25,6727,801 11 3.7 183% High density
10302Staten Island 19,0304,932 7 3.3 160% High density
10305Staten Island 41,27014,238 15 3.1 153% High density
10308Staten Island 30,5682,055 9 2.8 140% Above average
10304Staten Island 45,6587,473 14 2.8 140% Above average
10301Staten Island 41,0529,251 12 2.6 129% Above average
10306Staten Island 57,42811,150 16 2.5 125% Above average
10307Staten Island 15,5121,745 3 1.8 90% Below average
10309Staten Island 34,8859,912 7 1.8 87% Below average
10314Staten Island 93,91533,210 19 1.7 85% Below average
10312Staten Island 63,4696,750 11 1.6 81% Below average
10311Staten Island 01,154 0–2 — — Not published

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Find an actual space in Staten Island

The numbers above tell you how the market looks. To find a specific storefront, these marketplaces list available retail space for lease.

LoopNet
Largest commercial marketplace
Browse Staten Island retail space →
Crexi
Free listings + market data
Browse Staten Island retail space →
CityFeet
Retail space for lease
Browse Staten Island retail space →

Open vacancy data (actual empty units) is only published by some cities; where it exists we show it directly. Listings above are third-party.

Census withholds some ZIP-by-industry cells to protect small businesses. 0–2 means the cell was not published (Census publishes industry counts only at 3+ per ZIP), so the ZIP is left unranked rather than counted as zero. ~ means the count is estimated from the broader industry group and can be off by a business or two.

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Methodology & sources

Establishments. U.S. Census ZIP Code Business Patterns (ZBP 2023), NAICS 624410 — child day care services. Counts establishments with paid employees. ZBP is published annually with a ~2-year lag.

Fresh county signal. This industry has no clean QCEW series, so the freshest county signal is Census County Business Patterns 2023: 141 establishments and $51M in annual payroll county-wide. This count includes locations in ZIP codes that do not map to a ZCTA, so it can be slightly higher than the sum of the ZIP rows. CBP is annual and slower than QCEW. It cannot be broken down by ZIP.

Population. U.S. Census American Community Survey 2024 5-year ZCTA population (table B01003). Workers are the ZIP's total employment from the same 2023 ZBP file.

Demand ("people present"). Demand comes from residents and daytime workers: residents + 0.5 × workers. This is the single documented assumption in the model and can be tuned.

Index. index = (ZIP establishments ÷ ZIP demand × 10,000) ÷ the U.S. average for this industry (2.03 per 10,000 present). It is a supply-side density measure; it does not capture income, rent, tourism, or whether locals actually want more.

Read the full methodology →  ·  Data sources & vintages →

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