Care homes in Dudley
There are 96 care homes on the CQC register in Dudley, covering 7 towns. Open a town for ratings, specialisms and when each was inspected.
Get local care prices Care home vacancies by townDudley has 96 CQC-registered care homes across 7 towns on this site, with the most in Stourbridge, Dudley and Kingswinford. Among 89 rated so far, the Good or Outstanding share is 72%, which is below the 83% seen across England, with 1 rated Outstanding.
Of these, 20 provide nursing care and 61 support people living with dementia. Check that a home is registered for the care your relative needs now and is likely to need later, because moving again is unsettling.
Council-funded care here is arranged by Dudley Council, which must offer a free care needs assessment to anyone who appears to need support.
Council help with care: Dudley.
Who provides care in Dudley
Biggest providers here, counted by services: Fairmont Residential Limited (4), Alphonsus Services Limited (3) and Barchester Healthcare Homes Limited (2).
Stourbridge has more care homes than anywhere else in Dudley, with 26; the largest are Stourbridge (26), Dudley (19), Kingswinford (18), Halesowen (12) and Coseley (8).
Residential care home £1,206 a week and nursing home £1,400 a week, according to average 2026 self-funder fees in West Midlands.
21% of care homes here can provide nursing care (20 homes out of 96), against 30% nationally. The Village Nursing Home is the biggest home listed, with 90 beds; across the 96 homes with capacity data there are 2,766 registered beds, or 29 per home on average.
Looking at what services here say they specialise in, caring for adults over 65 years comes first with 74, followed by dementia (61), caring for adults under 65 years (58) and physical disabilities (42).
Highbury House Mental Health Unit has been registered with CQC the longest, since 2010. Over the past year 3 new care homes joined the register here; 2 are still waiting for a first rating.
Quality of care homes in Dudley
Since October 2025, CQC has issued 15 ratings for care homes here. Of those, improvements numbered 3, downgrades 2 and first ratings 1. Most recent: Parkfield Grange (Stourbridge), Good, published 15 October 2026. All recent CQC ratings in Dudley.
Older ratings are worth asking about: 53 care homes in Dudley (60%) were last rated over four years ago, against 49% nationally. 22 (25%) have a rating from within two years, against 28%.
1% of rated care homes in Dudley hold an Outstanding rating (1 of 89), where the England share is 5%. 63 more are Good. At the other end, 25 (28%) sit at Requires improvement (23) or Inadequate (2), compared with 17% nationally.
Where the care homes in Dudley are
| Town | Care homes | Rated Good or Outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| Stourbridge | 26 | 17 |
| Dudley | 19 | 12 |
| Kingswinford | 18 | 13 |
| Halesowen | 12 | 9 |
| Coseley | 8 | 6 |
| Brierley Hill | 7 | 4 |
| Sedgley | 6 | 3 |
Dudley care homes, district by district
Built from the Care Quality Commission's register (Oct 2026) under Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel lists and compares services but runs none.