Registered care homes in the UK by nation, care type, beds and rating (2026 Q4)

Method

What we collected and when

On 12 November 2026 we counted every care home listed on YourCareHome, which carries every home on the four regulators' registers: the Care Quality Commission (England), the Care Inspectorate (Scotland), Care Inspectorate Wales and the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (Northern Ireland), and the homes on the lists published for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. The date each was last read is given above; for Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man it is the date their lists were last imported. 15,768 homes in the United Kingdom and 118 in the Crown Dependencies are in the table.

Definitions

• Registered care home: a care home (residential or nursing) that its regulator registers and that is published on YourCareHome. Left out: home care agencies (17,703), listings not currently published (1,788), homes the CQC marks as dormant (85), homes whose location we could not confirm (0), listings with no regulator recorded (8) and sample listings (2).
• Nation: the nation of the regulator that registers the home. The United Kingdom total is England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man are Crown Dependencies, not part of the United Kingdom: their homes are counted in their own rows and left out of the United Kingdom total.
• Care type: nursing, nursing and residential, or residential, as the regulator records it. CQC: the service types listed in the home's CQC record, where "Nursing homes" means nursing and "Residential homes" means residential. Care Inspectorate Wales: the service sub-type, "Adults With Nursing" or "Adults Without Nursing". RQIA: the service type, "Nursing (NH)" or "Residential (RC)"; for a home whose RQIA record lacks it, the care type we hold from RQIA, "Nursing Care" or "Residential Care". Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man: the service type on each list, where a type naming nursing means nursing, one naming residential or personal care means residential, one naming both means nursing and residential, and "Personal Support" alone or no type means not stated. A home registered for both nursing and residential care is shown as its own care type, nursing and residential, so the care types add up to each nation's total. The Care Inspectorate does not record in its published data whether a care home provides nursing, so every home in Scotland is shown as type not stated. Across the United Kingdom, 1,075 homes have no care type stated.
• Beds: the number of beds or places the regulator records for the home, as the regulator publishes it. We do not estimate missing figures: 43 homes in the United Kingdom and 61 in the Crown Dependencies had no bed count. They are counted as homes and left out of the beds column, which is why the table gives the number of homes with a bed count beside the beds.
• Rating mix: homes by the rating their own regulator gives. CQC: the overall rating. Care Inspectorate: the lowest key question grade, on its 1 to 6 scale. Care Inspectorate Wales: the lowest of its four theme ratings. RQIA does not publish ratings, and nor do the Crown Dependency lists, so those homes show as not rated. A home without a published rating is counted as not rated. The scales differ, so the United Kingdom total has no rating mix of its own.

Sources and licences

• Care Quality Commission (CQC). Care Quality Commission data, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Care Inspectorate. Care Inspectorate datastore, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW). Care Inspectorate Wales data, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA). RQIA register published on OpenDataNI, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Jersey Care Commission. Jersey Care Commission list of registered care homes (carecommission.je); counts only, no content reproduced; no re-use terms published.
• Committee for Health & Social Care, States of Guernsey. States of Guernsey list (gov.gg), reproduced as counts with the source acknowledged under the States of Guernsey terms and conditions.
• Department of Health and Social Care, Isle of Man Government. Isle of Man Government list (gov.im); counts only; terms not yet checked.

From the Jersey, Guernsey and Isle of Man lists we take facts and counts only (the homes, their care type and their beds) and reproduce none of their content.

These figures are our own aggregation of the regulators' data. They are not endorsed by the Care Quality Commission, the Care Inspectorate, Care Inspectorate Wales, the RQIA or the regulators of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man.

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