The cost of care in Derby

Typical prices in Derby

Expect more variation from agency to agency than from region to region; request the whole price list, covering weekends and bank holidays. The Homecare Association puts the minimum sustainable price for council-funded home care in England at £34.42 an hour for 2026/27. The spread around these averages is wide. Room type, care needs and nursing are the three things that move the price. The council rate for a room is normally below the private rate.

How to get a reliable quote

A written tariff from each provider beats a phone quote. Look for differences between weekday and unsocial-hours rates, the shortest booking allowed and mileage; with homes, check inclusions and the timing of annual increases. Next, use the care cost calculator tool for a weekly figure and What will I pay? for your likely share.

Derby in numbers

There are 71 care homes in Derby, and 76% of the 66 with a rating are Good or Outstanding (below England's 83%). Nursing homes make up 28 of the total, or 39%. The middle-sized care home in Derby has 34 beds, and the 71 homes with a registered bed count total 2,393.

£33.50 an hour: that is our estimate of a typical private fee for a visiting carer locally, against a regional £33.50 (East Midlands) and £33.50 for England. It is not a quote. No single company leads in Derby: Key 2 Care Limited and Voyage 1 Limited run 4 services each.

Derby has 2 Outstanding care homes; 24% of its rated care homes (16) sit below Good, compared with 17% nationally. Our modelled typical self-funder price for residential or nursing care in Derby is £1,290 a week. The East Midlands figure is £1,290 and England's is £1,520. By type: residential about £1,250, nursing about £1,540.

Source: our analysis of CQC data (Oct 2026), fees modelled for Q4 2026.

How Derby's services score with the regulator

CQC registers 71 residential and nursing homes and 118 domiciliary agencies in Derby. Among homes with an inspection result, 76% score Good or better, short of the national 83%. Agencies reach 90%, much the same as the 88% seen nationally. Awaiting a first verdict: 5 homes, 48 agencies.

Rates paid by Derby City Council

What the council has published: 2026/27 (proposed max): home care £22.29 per hour (new framework standard); older people residential £718.57 per week; nursing £737.88 per week (excl. FNC) (source).

• Council rates tend to sit below self-funder prices.
• Want a dearer home than a council-funded place covers? The difference can be paid as a third-party top-up, generally by family.