The Department of Child Development and Family Studies is located in two buildings on Purdue's West Lafayette campus. The Child Development and Family Studies Building is located at State Street and Gates Road, and Fowler House is located at State Street and Intramural Drive.

These two buildings provide facilities for learning, discovery, and engagement efforts and are devoted exclusively to CDFS activities. Each building has offices for faculty, staff, and graduate assistants plus classrooms, lecture rooms, research laboratories, and computer rooms for graduate student use. The CDFS Building has 9,598 square feet and Fowler House has 18,243 square feet assignable to department functions.

One-way mirrors, audio equipment, and videotaping capabilities are available for each classroom of the Child Development Laboratory School and the Ben & Maxine Miller Child Learning Center, and for each of the therapy rooms of the Individual, Couple, and Family Therapy Clinic.

The Undergraduate Advising Office and the office of the graduate secretary are located in Fowler House. The department head's office is located in the CDFS Building.