Care homes in Nottingham
75 CQC-registered care homes across 4 towns in Nottingham. Pick a town to compare ratings, specialisms and inspection dates.
Get local care prices Care home vacancies by townAcross 4 towns, this site lists 75 CQC-registered care homes in Nottingham. Nottingham, Wollaton and Nuthall have the largest numbers. CQC has rated 73 of them: 81% Good or Outstanding, in line with England's 83%, and 9 are Outstanding.
Of these, 28 provide nursing care and 39 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 Nottingham Council, which must offer a free care needs assessment to anyone who appears to need support.
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Size, specialisms and cost in Nottingham
Beechdale House Care Home has been registered with CQC the longest, since 2010. Over the past year 4 new care homes joined the register here; 0 are still waiting for a first rating.
Most listings sit in a few places: Nottingham (37), Wollaton (26), Nuthall (15) and Clifton (7). Those are the towns in Nottingham with the most care homes. The strongest ratings are in Clifton (100% Good or Outstanding out of 7) and the weakest in Nuthall (73%).
The specialisms care homes in Nottingham list most often are caring for adults under 65 years (60), caring for adults over 65 years (57), dementia (39) and mental health conditions (38).
28 of the 75 care homes (37%) are registered as nursing homes, compared with 30% of care homes in England. Together the 75 homes with published capacity are registered for 2,211 beds, an average of 29 per home. The largest is Bramwell with 93.
What does care cost here? Average 2026 self-funder fees in East Midlands are residential care home £1,250 a week and nursing home £1,480 a week.
Biggest providers here, counted by services: Heathcotes Care Limited (5), Mrs Susan Clay (3) and Good Shepherd 4 You Ltd (2).
CQC ratings across Nottingham
12% of rated care homes in Nottingham hold an Outstanding rating (9 of 73), where the England share is 5%. 50 more are Good. At the other end, 14 (19%) sit at Requires improvement (13) or Inadequate (1), compared with 17% nationally.
Older ratings are worth asking about: 27 care homes in Nottingham (37%) were last rated over four years ago, against 49% nationally. 27 (37%) have a rating from within two years, against 28%.
Since October 2025, CQC has issued 19 ratings for care homes here. Of those, improvements numbered 4, downgrades 0 and first ratings 0. The latest was Sherwood in Nottingham, rated Outstanding on 21 October 2026. The Nottingham CQC ratings log.
Towns in Nottingham
| Town | Care homes | With a top-two rating |
|---|---|---|
| Nottingham | 37 | 28 |
| Wollaton | 26 | 21 |
| Nuthall | 15 | 11 |
| Clifton | 7 | 7 |
Postcode districts in Nottingham
Register information from CQC as at Oct 2026; Open Government Licence v3.0 applies. We do not deliver care ourselves.