Home care agency rates, ratings and coverage, England
Find out what home care near you really costs
Hourly and live-in rates, CQC ratings and the area each agency covers, for every registered home care agency. We show where each price came from and when, so you can compare before you ring anyone.
- 13,457
- home care agencies
- 152
- council areas
- 0
- rates on record
- Monthly
- CQC refresh
What home care usually costs
- Agency hourly visitstypical, an hour, weekdayscollecting
- Agency live-in caretypical, a week, one carercollecting
- Your own carer, hourlyself-employed, through PrimeCarers£18 to £25
- Your own carer, live-infrom, a week£1,120
Agency figures are the middle of 0 agencies with a rate on record. Every agency page shows its own source and date.
See rates by region →Home care agencies by region
Pick a region, then narrow down to your council area or town.
- 01East Midlands1,339 agencies · 10 areas
- 02East of England1,731 agencies · 11 areas
- 03London2,280 agencies · 33 areas
- 04North East399 agencies · 12 areas
- 05North West1,488 agencies · 24 areas
- 06South East2,342 agencies · 19 areas
- 07South West1,228 agencies · 14 areas
- 08West Midlands1,488 agencies · 14 areas
- 09Yorkshire and The Humber1,162 agencies · 15 areas
Where the prices come from
No estimates dressed up as facts. Three sources, each labelled.
From the agency’s website
Where an agency publishes its rates, we record the figure, the page it came from and the date we saw it. The same crawl reads which areas it covers and what it offers.
Reported by the agency
We ask agencies what families pay. When an agency tells us, we show it as a reported rate with the date: what we were told, not a quote.
Never a guess
Where we have no rate for an agency we say so, and show the typical range for the council area instead. Where we have had to estimate the area an agency covers, the page says that too.
Read more about where the data comes from or see what home care costs across England.
Paying for care at home, explained properly
Long answers to the questions families ask us most, with the figures for England.
How much does home care cost in 2026? Hourly, live-in and overnight rates
What agencies charge an hour, why the rate is what it is, what a week comes to for the visits you need, and where live-in care becomes the cheaper shape.
8 minute read
Who pays for home care, and when the council helps
The means test for care at home in plain English: the savings limits, why your house does not count, what you keep each week, and how to get assessed.
7 minute read
Direct payments: taking the council money and choosing your own care
The council can pay for your care or give you the money to arrange it yourself. Here is how direct payments work, what you can spend them on, and what you take on.
6 minute read
Rather choose your own carer?
Self-employed carers on PrimeCarers charge £18 to £25 an hour and set their own rates, with no agency margin on top. The same person comes each time, and live-in care is from about £1,120 a week.