Abstract
The purpose of this study is to investigate the neighborhood environment of child care and education institutions in Taejon area. Institutions for research were 44 kindergartens and 36 child care centers. Data were collected by the field study and were analized by SPSS package program. The major findings were: (1) The neighborhood environment of institutions were divided into 13 large classfications and 45 small classifctions and the vacant lots and the construction places, the nature places. (2) The neighborhood environment of institutions were classified as the positive, neutral, negative environment. (3) There was not the significant difference of the neighborhood environment of institutions in the institution type, area.