Listz area intelligence

Registered care provision for older residents

Name: English council registered care-location rankings
Creator: Listz
License: https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

Compare care homes, nursing homes, home-care agencies, supported living and dementia-support locations across English council areas.

294 councilsWith at least 10,000 residents aged 65+

12,993 locationsMatching this service selection

Per 10,000 aged 65+Population-normalised comparison

This measures registered locations—not beds, available places or quality. A higher rate may indicate more registered service locations, but it does not measure staffing, capacity, fees, waiting lists, inspection ratings or travel time. One location can appear in more than one service measure.

Highest registered-location rate: Home-care agency locations

Highest registered-location rate
Rank	Council area	Rate/10,000	Locations	Population 65+	Checked within 5 years
1	Barking and Dagenham	71.15	146	20,520	55
2	Slough	40.52	68	16,780	13
3	Dartford	39.39	67	17,008	14
4	Milton Keynes	37.20	167	44,895	49
5	Leicester	36.46	174	47,719	63
6	Peterborough	36.12	118	32,673	20
7	Nottingham	34.41	137	39,820	35
8	Tower Hamlets	32.49	66	20,317	25
9	Thurrock	31.00	77	24,842	26
10	Gloucester	30.95	74	23,910	28
11	Greenwich	29.62	99	33,428	34
12	Newham	28.67	84	29,303	38
13	Wolverhampton	28.09	128	45,574	42
14	Harlow	27.61	40	14,490	15
15	Crawley	27.43	47	17,135	22
16	Stevenage	27.32	40	14,643	16
17	Redbridge	27.14	112	41,272	45
18	Southampton	26.25	95	36,191	24
19	Coventry	25.72	133	51,703	32
20	Lewisham	24.59	80	32,532	31

Lowest registered-location rate: Home-care agency locations

Lowest registered-location rate
Rank	Council area	Rate/10,000	Locations	Population 65+	Checked within 5 years
1	East Lindsey	1.70	8	47,193	2
2	West Lancashire	2.48	7	28,179	2
3	Ribble Valley	2.95	5	16,979	2
4	Mid Devon	3.70	8	21,642	2
5	Derbyshire Dales	3.71	8	21,563	2
6	Staffordshire Moorlands	3.77	10	26,525	5
7	West Lindsey	3.83	10	26,131	2
8	North Norfolk	4.06	15	36,957	7
9	Halton	4.26	11	25,817	6
10	Wyre	4.30	15	34,913	4
11	Great Yarmouth	4.32	11	25,483	3
12	South Staffordshire	4.32	13	30,101	1
13	Rother	4.38	14	31,939	7
14	Folkestone and Hythe	4.39	13	29,584	4
15	Northumberland	4.40	40	90,910	29
16	North East Derbyshire	4.44	12	27,005	6
17	Hartlepool	4.45	9	20,214	5
18	County Durham	4.49	54	120,397	33
19	South Tyneside	4.52	15	33,222	8
20	Wealden	4.52	21	46,424	9

Methodology and limitations

Ranking measure

Current CQC care-directory locations mapped by postcode to current council geography, divided by the council's 2025 population aged 65+.

Eligibility threshold

Rankings require at least 10,000 residents aged 65+. This excludes two very small older populations whose rates would otherwise be unstable.

Service selection

Measures use CQC service-type and specialism labels. Care homes combine nursing-home and residential-home labels; dementia support also requires an older-adult specialism.

Geographic scope

CQC regulates England. Welsh care services are not included and require a separate Care Inspectorate Wales dataset.

Sources: Care Quality Commission care directory; Office for National Statistics population estimates via Nomis; ONS Postcode Directory. Licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.