Laws and locations of Safe Haven Baby Boxes in the United States.
US Baby Box Map
KEY: >100 Boxes 25-100 Boxes <25 Boxes No Boxes(but law allows them)
An interactive Google Map is also available that shows the exact facilities and locations in states that have installed Safe Haven Baby Boxes, in addition to which boxes have led to infant abandonments. That map is available here.
List of States
Information, news, and general legislative updates are available on most states. See the SSHBB legislation page for details on current bills.
Key: # States with baby box laws | * States with proprietary Safe Haven Baby Boxes | States that allow municipalities to install boxes, but no state SHBB law per se | & States with other types of boxes
Alabama #*
Alaska
Arizona &/*
Arkansas #*
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida *
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho#*
Illinois
Indiana #* (2 pages)
Iowa #*
Kansas #
Kentucky #*
Louisiana #
Maine#
Maryland#
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi #*
Missouri #*
Montana #
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire#
New Jersey
New Mexico*
New York
North Carolina *
North Dakota
Ohio #*
Oklahoma#*
Oregon
Pennsylvania #*
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee #*
Texas #*
Utah
Vermont
Virginia#
Washington
West Virginia #*
Wisconsin #*%
Wyoming
Numbers
NOTE: We are still having tech problems adding stats for some states and the grand total data the bottom. Individual state pages, however, have the correct numbers.
Statistics for states where there are installed baby boxes or drawers (e.g., Arizona). States are listed in order of number of installed boxes. For more details of cases, see SHBB Cases by State. “In Use” indicates the number of boxes that are actually in use in a state and have not been deactivated or removed, whether related to functional problems or regulatory issues that prompted the state to order the closure of a box.
| State | Installed | In Use | Boxed Babies** |
| Indiana | 151 | 150 | 28 (32) |
| Kentucky | 66 | 66 | 5 |
| Arkansas | 36 | 36 | 6 |
| Ohio | 27 | 26 | 3 |
| Tennessee | 31 | 31 | 5 |
| New Mexico | 17 | 17 | 4 |
| Arizona# | 3/6 | 3/6 =9 | no SHBB cases |
| Alabama | 23 | 23 | 7 |
| Mississippi | 11 | 11 | 3 |
| West Virginia | 6 | 6 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 9 | 9 | 0 |
| Florida | 13 | 13 | 1 |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | 5 | 2 |
| Missouri | 13 | 13 | 3 |
| Iowa | 4 | 4 | 0 |
| Idaho | 3 | 3 | 0 (1 deceased) |
| Texas | 21 | 21 | 5 |
| Wisconsin | 7 | 7 | `1 |
| Kansas | 3 | 3 | 0 |
| Montana | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Louisiana | 2 | 2 | 0 |
| Virginia | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| South Dakota | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| North Dakota | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Maine | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| New Hampshire | 1 | 1 | 0 |
| Georgia | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Totals | 456 462 (SHBB) +6 indie | 454 (+6 indie) 460 (inc. 6 indie) | 78*(84) |
*3 SHBB has been installed in Arizona, while 6/6 shelves were installed in the past and are not affiliated with SHBB Inc. We do not know if any infants have been shelved at these locations
**This number represents cases that have been verified, usually by an outside source. Sometimes SHBB announces a case but releases no other information. The higher number indicates SHBB Inc casesnumbers.
Go here for discrepancy information.
Updated July 26, 2026