Care homes in Cumberland
Cumberland: 62 registered care homes in 8 towns. Each town page sets out CQC ratings, inspection dates and specialisms side by side.
Get local care prices Care home vacancies by townWe list 62 care homes registered with CQC in Cumberland, spread over 8 towns; Carlisle, Workington and Maryport have the most. 77% of the 62 with a CQC rating are Good or Outstanding (below 83% for England). Outstanding: 2.
Of these, 14 provide nursing care and 37 support people living with dementia. Moving again is unsettling, so make sure the home you pick holds the right registration both for today and for the needs likely later on.
Cumberland Council arranges council-funded care here. If someone seems to need care and support, it has to assess their needs, free of charge.
Council help with care: Cumberland.
Cumberland: ratings compared with England
In the last two years CQC has published ratings for 17 of them, 27% of the rated total (England: 28%). For 31, the latest rating is over four years old: 50% here, 49% in England.
Rating changes over 12 months in Cumberland: 0 up, 2 down and 0 first-time ratings, out of 19 new ratings published. Most recent: California House (Carlisle), Good, published 15 September 2026. All recent CQC ratings in Cumberland.
Across the 62 rated care homes, CQC gives 2 Outstanding, 46 Good, 14 Requires improvement and 0 Inadequate. That makes 3% Outstanding, against 5% in England, and 23% below Good, against 17%.
Care homes in Cumberland at a glance
23% of care homes here can provide nursing care (14 homes out of 62), against 30% nationally. Eden Manor Care Home is the biggest home listed, with 80 beds; across the 62 homes with capacity data there are 1,918 registered beds, or 31 per home on average.
Looking at what services here say they specialise in, caring for adults over 65 years comes first with 49, followed by dementia (37), caring for adults under 65 years (29) and physical disabilities (29).
Carlisle has more care homes than anywhere else in Cumberland, with 18; the largest are Carlisle (18), Workington (11), Maryport (10), Whitehaven (8) and Cockermouth (4).
The longest-registered of them is Ravenstone Care and Rehabilitation Home, on the CQC register since 2010.
Some providers run more than one care home in Cumberland: Community Integrated Care (6), Cumberland Council (6) and West House (4).
Residential care home £1,100 a week and nursing home £1,400 a week, according to average 2026 self-funder fees in North West.
Where the care homes in Cumberland are
| Town | Care homes | Rated Good or Outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| Carlisle | 18 | 15 |
| Workington | 11 | 9 |
| Maryport | 10 | 9 |
| Whitehaven | 8 | 4 |
| Cockermouth | 4 | 3 |
| Seaton | 4 | 2 |
| Wigton | 4 | 3 |
| Millom | 3 | 3 |
Cumberland care homes, district by district
CQC register data (Oct 2026), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is independent of every provider listed.