Care home fees, ratings and reviews, England
Find out what care homes near you really cost
Weekly fees, CQC ratings and reviews from families, for every registered care home. We show where each price came from and when, so you can compare with confidence.
- 14,788
- care homes
- 153
- council areas
- 806
- fees on record
- Monthly
- CQC refresh
What care usually costs
- Residential caretypical, a week£1,300
- Nursing caretypical, a week£1,581
- Live-in care at homefrom, a week, one carer£1,120
Care home figures are the middle of 806 homes with a fee on record. Every home page shows its own source and date.
See fees by region →Care homes by region
Pick a region, then narrow down to your council area or town.
- 01East Midlands1,449 homes · 10 areas
- 02East of England1,636 homes · 12 areas
- 03London1,270 homes · 32 areas
- 04North East733 homes · 12 areas
- 05North West1,867 homes · 24 areas
- 06South East2,826 homes · 19 areas
- 07South West1,859 homes · 15 areas
- 08West Midlands1,676 homes · 14 areas
- 09Yorkshire and The Humber1,472 homes · 15 areas
Where the prices come from
No estimates dressed up as facts. Three sources, each labelled.
From the home’s website
Where a home publishes its fees, we record the figure, the page it came from and the date we saw it.
Reported by the home
We ask homes what families pay. When a home tells us, we show it as a reported fee with the date: what we were told, not a quote.
Never a guess
Where we have no fee for a home we say so, and show the typical range for the council area instead.
Read more about where the data comes from or see what care homes cost across England.
Paying for a care home, explained properly
Long answers to the questions families ask us most, with the figures for England.
Who pays for care home fees, and when the council helps
The means test in plain English: the savings limits, what counts, what happens to your house, and what you keep each week.
8 minute read
Care home or live-in care? The honest comparison
Both cost about the same for one person. For a couple the gap is large. What each gives you, what each costs, and how to decide.
7 minute read
CQC ratings explained: how to read an inspection report
Outstanding, Good, Requires improvement, Inadequate. What the inspectors look at, what the rating does not tell you, and how to read the report behind it.
6 minute read
Thinking about care at home instead?
A live-in carer costs from about £1,120 a week and means staying in your own home, with one person you choose. For a couple it is often much cheaper than two care home places.