Kosten für die Erziehung eines Kindes in jedem Bundesstaat im Jahr 2025
Von Next_Tower5452
Kosten für die Erziehung eines Kindes in jedem Bundesstaat im Jahr 2025
Von Next_Tower5452
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Wild how different the costs are. Really shows how much where you live can shape a family’s budget.
Mississippi might be cheap but the trade off is that your child is going to be disadvantaged by some of the worst school in the country and likely the first world.
Mississippi is again the lowest, but (for once!) in a positive sense.
But this lower cost should not obscure the fact that there will be serious difficulties in everything from poor social services to coping with a broken education system…
I guess this is why so many young families move to Texas.
I always wondered where my $84k per year went.
This isn’t counting the real cost which is simply the amount of work and self sacrifice kids require.
American fertility rate only 1.6 children per woman.
Virginia is waaaayyy off. It’s 25k a year just for daycare.
It would be really nice if the places with the good jobs found ways to make having kids easier. Do you want idiocracy? Because this is how you get idiocracy
This is a bit misleading. These figures may be true for the first child, but for each additional child, it will most likely be less. To go from zero to one, most families need a larger house, larger car and a lot of new furniture. But (most of the time) most of those incremental expenses aren’t incurred with the next child.
I find the gap between RI and its neighbors interesting. I’m guessing it’s because of the expensive cities on the west side of CT, and the whole Boston Metro + cape dragging their averages up.
Wait. How is NY cheaper than CT??
Who fudgin‘ these numbers?
Unfortunately, this is already out of date because as of November 1, New Mexico has universal free childcare, which would reduce the cost significantly
It costs nowhere near this at all!
It costs, at worst, 25% of these numbers.
Now, in theory you can spend as much as you want on your kid. But, the necessities, food, clothes, school, a fair amount of toys… health care… nah, it’s not that bad.
I spend about $5000 a year on my kid.
And we’re living good. Upper-middle class lifestyle. Children are very low maintenance.
Teenagers need more.
Costs don’t really go up until, car, college, etc. but these are choices. Not requirement. Also, the trick is, when your kid becomes a teenager make them get a job and start paying for things. This is a win win. They have more money of their own, they help pay their own expenses, they develop self-confidence and self-reliance and self-respect.
Seriously, this is the dumbest map I’ve ever seen.
Ugh… classic mapporn DC erasure 😢
Not at all accurate.
These numbers are definitely off. I live in WA and have four kids. We don’t spend $140k a year as an entire family, much less additional to what we spent pre-kids.
In CO I spend 20K on Competitive cheer alone per year.
The most inaccurate map of all time
This would be better if it were minus childcare costs for couples with stay at home parents
Would love to see this broken down. We have three kids and aren’t spending an extra $75,000 a year.
For the cost of one child? Maybe. But this isn’t a per child cost.
How to lie with maps
Decent childcare alone is anywhere from $15k-$30k per year… we’re fucked.
These need to be done by ages 0-2, 3-4, 5-12, and 13-18. The breakdowns are based on too young for school, preschool age (which is provided by some school districts), school age but also potentially going to before/after/summer care, and finally done with childcare costs but also much higher social/enrichment costs.
Overlay this with a map of poverty areas and average GPA
Too high
Cost of raising a child by county makes more sense than by US states.
I’m sure you mean well, but your mode of communicating your point is akin to intending to drive straight but actually turning into a median.
Now do this chart as a percentage of household income.
I am in South Dakota and I know the rural areas are pulling down the averages. I wish this was accurate so much though
35k seems right x 4 kids…..No wonder I’m not rich
This is one of those instances where you get what you pay for.
Okay, but how much does it cost to raise a cat? I feel like I could have a lot of cats for $25k a year.
These numbers are pulled out of an ass. 28k in Ohio? This pays for what, 2 years in day care? I’m not even sure I can find a daycare cheaper than 1200 per month
Iowa. We spend ~20k just on daycare.
Cheaper does not mean better.
Oregon shouldn’t be so high for how lackluster its economy is compared to its northern and southern neighbors.