San Angelo, TX Home Business: Home Daycare (2026)

San Angelo classifies a home daycare as a home occupation, so it inherits every general limit in Sec. 413 of the Zoning Ordinance on top of its own child-count formula. Only people who actually live in the dwelling can operate the daycare under Sec. 413.A.1, and the business has to stay fully inside the principal building with no detached playhouse, shed or garage pressed into service under Sec. 413.A.4.

The child-count rule in Sec. 413.B.1.b works in two layers. The base allowance is six children under age 14 in care during any one calendar day, and that count excludes the caregiver's own children. On top of that base, the caregiver may take in up to six more children of elementary school age, but only during non-school hours, meaning before-and-after-school care. Add every category together, including the caregiver's own minor children living in the home, and the total on-site at any given moment cannot exceed 12. That means a caregiver with two young children of her own can care for at most ten others under the combined cap, so long as the six-under-14 base cap and the 12-child ceiling both hold. The Planning Department, or its designated representative, can inspect the premises at any reasonable time under Sec. 413.C to confirm the headcount and containment rules are being followed.