Adult social care: care home residents and people receiving home care, England
Official statistics
People living in care homes for younger and older adults and people receiving home care from CQC-regulated providers in England, in one week of each month since May 2025, with care home occupancy and the share of providers that gave a recent return, from DHSC's quarterly adult social care provider statistics.
Care home residents
355,809
14 Aug 2026 · in the week ending 14 August 2026, when 86.8% of care home beds were occupied; 91.9% of care homes and 81.2% of home care providers had given a recent return, and 489,732 people were receiving home care
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:23 UTC- Care home residents
- People receiving home care
Source: Department of Health and Social Care. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
Data table
16 periods, newest first
| Period | Care home residents | People receiving home care |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Aug 2026 | 355,809 (91.9% of care homes had given a recent return) | 489,732 (81.2% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Jul 2026 | 356,898 (93% of care homes had given a recent return) | 496,960 (83% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 362,329 (93.7% of care homes had given a recent return) | 498,004 (83.6% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 May 2026 | 359,215 (93% of care homes had given a recent return) | 499,364 (83.7% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Apr 2026 | 364,478 (94.6% of care homes had given a recent return) | 507,760 (84.3% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 16 Mar 2026 | 362,556 (94.5% of care homes had given a recent return) | 504,975 (85.1% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 16 Feb 2026 | 360,507 (94.3% of care homes had given a recent return) | 505,886 (84.9% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Jan 2026 | 363,432 (95.6% of care homes had given a recent return) | 510,701 (85.5% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 15 Dec 2025 | 361,628 (94.1% of care homes had given a recent return) | 499,279 (84.2% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Nov 2025 | 360,343 (94% of care homes had given a recent return) | 499,797 (84.4% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Oct 2025 | 354,125 (92.3% of care homes had given a recent return) | 487,508 (81% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 15 Sep 2025 | 352,905 (91.9% of care homes had given a recent return) | 484,821 (81.8% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Aug 2025 | 353,659 (92.1% of care homes had given a recent return) | 488,725 (82.5% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 Jul 2025 | 350,077 (91.6% of care homes had given a recent return) | 491,540 (82.2% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 16 Jun 2025 | 352,340 (92.6% of care homes had given a recent return) | 483,713 (83.6% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
| 14 May 2025 | 347,477 (91.4% of care homes had given a recent return) | 477,605 (81.5% of home care providers had given a recent return) |
Source and licence
- Publisher
- Department of Health and Social Care
- Check it yourself
- https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adult-social-care-provider-statistics-england-quarterly-update
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0 – Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Retrieved
- 8 November 2026, 13:06 UTC
- Raw files fetched
- https://www.gov.uk/api/content/government/statistics/adult-social-care-provider-statistics-england-quarterly-update-to-august-2026SHA-256 28b65039a06fc14db5b07fa9128744bac96b338dcb1b2de46514e41e502a4293 · 21,752 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a96d5d75a0c25165ae46726/people-receiving-adult-social-care-services-data-to-august-2026.odsSHA-256 6dbd39f029ee3f2d10981ea11d1837ca82f9453391fc296665280c72b4bf87ad · 196,642 bytes
- https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6a96d5cc01bbff0bf8f97c22/occupancy-visiting-workforce-statistics-data-to-august-2026.odsSHA-256 e75cb1b59bbb25a7349b47353fa91734437713b76f25611da58b57656d922ff1 · 1,387,607 bytes
Verification
Verified against source, 8 November 2026, 13:23 UTC Run at 8 November 2026, 13:23 UTC; 32 of 32 figures matched the live source.
| Result | Check | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Pass | Provenance recorded | Department of Health and Social Care; Open Government Licence v3.0; retrieved 2026-11-08T13:06:41Z; 3 raw file(s) |
| Pass | Raw files match recorded SHA-256 | 3 of 3 files intact |
| Pass | Re-parsing raw files reproduces figures | 32 of 32 figures and the headline reproduced; the meta's occupancy and response_rates and flags match |
| Pass | Figures are finite numbers | 32 figures, 0 invalid |
| Pass | Live source matches every figure | 32 of 32 figures match exactly after downloading 3 source file(s) again (3 byte-identical); the headline matches; the meta's occupancy and response_rates and flags match |
| Pass | GOV.UK table is current | latest period 2026-08-14 ended 86 days before retrieval (limit 150), from Number of people receiving adult social care services, data to August 2026 |
| Pass | Table 4a's beds occupied are Table 1's residents | 16 of 16 figures match the occupancy workbook's Table 4a, beds occupied |
| Pass | Beds occupied and vacant make up all beds | 44 of 44 cases of Table 4a's weeks give beds occupied, vacant and admittable, and vacant and not admittable, that add up to all beds |
| Pass | Each week's occupancy is the beds occupied of all beds | 44 of 44 cases of Table 4a's weeks give as occupied the beds occupied of all beds, within the 0.05 point DHSC rounds the share to within 0.05 (0 exactly) |
| Pass | Providers with and without a recent return make up all of them | 32 of 32 cases of Tables 5 and 8's weeks give shares with and without a recent return that add up to 100, within the 0.1 point their rounding to 0.1 allows within 0.100001 (32 exactly) |
| Pass | Tables 2 and 3 add up to Table 1's residents | 16 of 16 cases of the weeks' residents in Table 2 and Table 3 add up to Table 1's |
| Pass | Source page answers | https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/adult-social-care-provider-statistics-england-quarterly-update – HTTP 200 |
Notes
- Residents of care homes for younger and older adults, and people receiving domiciliary (home) care from providers registered with the Care Quality Commission, in England in the week ending on each date DHSC gives, as providers report them.
- The counts rest on providers' returns, so they move with the share of providers that gave a recent return: DHSC gives that share for each week, which the table and the CSV show beside each count. Care home occupancy is DHSC's share of all care home beds that were occupied in the same week.