East Midlands nursery fees index, October to December 2026
Median published full-day nursery fees in each area, by age, from 665 nurseries' own price lists. A dash means fewer than 3 nurseries in that council area publish a fee for that age.
Updated 14 November 2026
| Council area | Nurseries | Fees known | Under 2 | Age 2 | Age 3 to 4 | All ages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Barking and Dagenham | 79 | 17 | £73 | £73 | £73 | £73 |
| Barnet | 130 | 23 | £102.50 | £96 | £92 | £93.50 |
| Barnsley | 65 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bath and North East Somerset | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bedford | 59 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bexley | 93 | 11 | £88.50 | £88.50 | £87.25 | £87.25 |
| Birmingham | 341 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Blackburn with Darwen | 47 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Blackpool | 36 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bolton | 76 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bournemouth, Christchurch & Poole | 126 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bracknell Forest | 45 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bradford | 135 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Brent | 105 | 23 | £79.75 | £83.50 | £81 | £81 |
| Brighton and Hove | 110 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bristol | 115 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bromley | 161 | 47 | £90 | £90 | £90 | £90 |
| Buckinghamshire | 237 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Bury | 51 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Calderdale | 74 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Cambridgeshire | 244 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Camden | 71 | 15 | £76.80 | £72 | £66.40 | £66.40 |
| Central Bedfordshire | 78 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Cheshire East | 142 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Cheshire West and Chester | 133 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| City of London | 7 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Cornwall | 192 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Coventry | 78 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Croydon | 160 | 38 | £90 | £90 | £90 | £90 |
| Cumberland | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Darlington | 27 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Derby | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Derbyshire | 226 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Devon | 242 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Doncaster | 69 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Dorset | 123 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Dudley | 76 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Durham | 99 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Ealing | 126 | 17 | £97 | £97 | £97 | £97 |
| East Riding of Yorkshire | 105 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| East Sussex | 178 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Enfield | 113 | 25 | £76.50 | £73.90 | £73 | £73 |
| Essex | 598 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Gateshead | 51 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Gloucestershire | 250 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Greenwich | 126 | 17 | £95 | £94.80 | £94.24 | £94.24 |
| Hackney | 111 | 20 | £100 | £90 | £80 | £80 |
| Halton | 39 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Hammersmith and Fulham | 74 | 20 | £117 | £115 | £115 | £115 |
| Hampshire | 572 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Haringey | 100 | 17 | £97.33 | £85.15 | £85 | £85.15 |
| Harrow | 102 | 15 | £106.75 | £105.45 | £91.88 | £91.88 |
| Hartlepool | 17 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Havering | 131 | 29 | £77.50 | £78 | £75.75 | £75.75 |
| Herefordshire | 58 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Hertfordshire | 472 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Hillingdon | 93 | 25 | £88.50 | £87.50 | £87.50 | £87.50 |
| Hounslow | 87 | 23 | £92.70 | £83 | £77.50 | £77.50 |
| Isle of Wight | 35 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Isles of Scilly | 1 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Islington | 79 | 14 | £132 | £124 | £114 | £127 |
| Kensington and Chelsea | 63 | 8 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Kent | 606 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Kingston upon Hull | 58 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Kingston upon Thames | 50 | 13 | £85 | £78.25 | £80 | £75.75 |
| Kirklees | 169 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Knowsley | 43 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Lambeth | 112 | 20 | £93.50 | £93.50 | £93.50 | £93.50 |
| Lancashire | 411 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Leeds | 208 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Leicester | 102 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Leicestershire | 272 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Lewisham | 134 | 32 | £85 | £85 | £87.50 | £87.50 |
| Lincolnshire | 234 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Liverpool | 132 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Luton | 73 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Manchester | 106 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Medway | 86 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Merton | 80 | 18 | £113.50 | £112 | £112 | £112 |
| Middlesbrough | 30 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Milton Keynes | 101 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Newcastle upon Tyne | 77 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Newham | 94 | 15 | £92.73 | £90.44 | £88.15 | £88.15 |
| Norfolk | 248 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North East Lincolnshire | 36 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North Lincolnshire | 55 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North Northamptonshire | 106 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North Somerset | 81 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North Tyneside | 58 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| North Yorkshire | 220 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Northumberland | 94 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Nottingham | 68 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Nottinghamshire | 235 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Oldham | 77 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Oxfordshire | 240 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Peterborough | 88 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Plymouth | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Portsmouth | 71 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Reading | 45 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Redbridge | 116 | 16 | £84 | £80.50 | £80.50 | £80.50 |
| Redcar and Cleveland | 28 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Richmond upon Thames | 100 | 21 | £115.13 | £115.13 | £108.05 | £108.05 |
| Rochdale | 82 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Rotherham | 61 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Rutland | 15 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Salford | 90 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Sandwell | 92 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Sefton | 60 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Sheffield | 127 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Shropshire | 97 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Slough | 35 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Solihull | 61 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Somerset | 177 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| South Gloucestershire | 137 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| South Tyneside | 34 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Southampton | 80 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Southend on Sea | 51 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Southwark | 105 | 24 | £98 | £89 | £80.22 | £80.43 |
| St Helens | 45 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Staffordshire | 266 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Stockport | 92 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Stockton-on-Tees | 48 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Stoke-on-Trent | 69 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Suffolk | 259 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Sunderland | 45 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Surrey | 481 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Sutton | 73 | 19 | £88.46 | £85.06 | £80.33 | £80.33 |
| Swindon | 57 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Tameside | 62 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Telford and Wrekin | 54 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Thurrock | 54 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Torbay | 28 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Tower Hamlets | 81 | 13 | £78.30 | £75.80 | £75.80 | £75.80 |
| Trafford | 91 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wakefield | 72 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Walsall | 51 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Waltham Forest | 95 | 30 | £92.50 | £90 | £95 | £90 |
| Wandsworth | 145 | 30 | £94.32 | £94.32 | £93.64 | £94.32 |
| Warrington | 75 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Warwickshire | 203 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| West Berkshire | 58 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| West Northamptonshire | 157 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| West Sussex | 363 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Westminster | 61 | 10 | £105 | £103 | £103 | £105 |
| Westmorland and Furness | 53 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wigan | 101 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wiltshire | 217 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Windsor and Maidenhead | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wirral | 88 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wokingham | 64 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Wolverhampton | 48 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| Worcestershire | 178 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| York | 67 | 0 | Too few | Too few | Too few | Too few |
| All of East Midlands | 18317 | 665 | £91 | £90 | £88 | Too few |
“Too few” marks a cell with too little data to publish (a dash in the CSV and plain-text versions).
Methodology
- Source: fees published on nursery websites and listings, checked regularly and dated on each nursery page. Only nurseries open when we last checked are counted.
- For each nursery and age band we take the lowest published full-day price (a price for “all ages” counts for every band), then the median across nurseries. Funded hours, sibling discounts and extras are not included.
- A median is shown only when at least 3 nurseries publish a fee. Medians from few nurseries move a lot from quarter to quarter.
- Each quarter's figures come from our check in that quarter; this page is October to December 2026, built 14 November 2026.
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