Care homes in Oldham
59 CQC-registered care homes across 6 towns in Oldham. Pick a town to compare ratings, specialisms and inspection dates.
Find available careAcross 6 towns, this site lists 59 CQC-registered care homes in Oldham. Failsworth, Oldham and Lees have the largest numbers. CQC has rated 52 of them: 87% Good or Outstanding, above England's 83%, and 1 is Outstanding.
Of these, 19 provide nursing care and 49 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.
Oldham 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: Oldham.
Size, specialisms and cost in Oldham
What does care cost here? Average 2026 self-funder fees in North West are residential care home £1,100 a week and nursing home £1,400 a week.
Some providers run more than one care home in Oldham: Wellington Healthcare (Arden) Ltd (5), Masterpalm Properties Limited (4) and HC-One No.5 Limited (3).
The longest-registered of them is Ashgrove House Care Limited, on the CQC register since 2010. 7 registered in the last 12 months and 1 of those has no rating yet.
32% of care homes here can provide nursing care (19 homes out of 59), against 30% nationally. Together the 59 homes with published capacity are registered for 2,067 beds, an average of 35 per home. The largest is Chadderton Total Care with 146.
The specialisms care homes in Oldham list most often are caring for adults over 65 years (54), dementia (49), caring for adults under 65 years (42) and physical disabilities (36).
Failsworth has more care homes than anywhere else in Oldham, with 19; the largest are Failsworth (19), Oldham (15), Lees (8), Shaw (7) and Chadderton (5). The strongest ratings are in Royton (100% Good or Outstanding out of 5) and the weakest in Shaw (57%).
CQC ratings across Oldham
In the last two years CQC has published ratings for 10 of them, 19% of the rated total (England: 28%). For 25, the latest rating is over four years old: 48% here, 49% in England.
Rating changes over 12 months in Oldham: 0 up, 0 down and 2 first-time ratings, out of 9 new ratings published. Neville House Residential Home in Oldham has the newest rating: Good, from 8 September 2026. All recent CQC ratings in Oldham.
Across the 52 rated care homes, CQC gives 1 Outstanding, 44 Good, 7 Requires improvement and 0 Inadequate. That makes 2% Outstanding, against 5% in England, and 13% below Good, against 17%.
Where the care homes in Oldham are
| Town | Care homes | Rated Good or Outstanding |
|---|---|---|
| Failsworth | 19 | 14 |
| Oldham | 15 | 11 |
| Lees | 8 | 7 |
| Shaw | 7 | 4 |
| Chadderton | 5 | 3 |
| Royton | 5 | 5 |
Postcode districts in Oldham
- OL2 Oldham 11
- OL8 Oldham 11
- OL4 Oldham 9
- OL9 Oldham 6
Provider details from the Care Quality Commission register, updated Oct 2026. Contains CQC data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. The Care Panel is not a care provider.