The 2024 Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) National Workforce Census (NWC) was commissioned by the Department of Education and aims to improve the quality of information used in developing and measuring early childhood policy and programs. This report gives a brief overview of some of the key data on ECEC services and workers, including: (1) ECEC Service Characteristics; (2) Preschool Programs; and (3) ECEC Workforce Characteristics. The 2024 ECEC NWC collected site level information from approved 18,990 ECEC services across Australia. Services provided information on service capacity, usage, and the number of children with additional needs in ECEC, as well as a range of demographic information about their workforce. Data collection was undertaken via a self-completion methodology, with the predominant mode being online. These results were consolidated with the self-completion data, cleaned and weighted for analysis.