Care prices in Nottinghamshire

What care usually costs in Nottinghamshire

Hourly rates vary between agencies more than between regions; ask each agency for its full price list, including weekend and bank holiday rates. 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. Fees depend on the room, the level of care and whether nursing is needed. Councils usually pay less than self-funders for the same room.

Rates paid by Nottinghamshire County Council

What the council has published: 2026/27: home care district medians £25.94-£27.83 per hour; OP residential bands 2-5 £776.20-£867.85 per week; OP nursing bands 2-5 £869.03-£962.98 per week (excl. FNC; excl. DQM) (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.

Pinning down the real cost

Ask each provider for a written price list: the hourly rate for weekdays, evenings, weekends and bank holidays, the shortest visit, mileage, and for care homes what the weekly fee includes and how often it rises. Then estimate a weekly total with our care cost calculator tool and what you would pay yourself with What will I pay?

Nottinghamshire in numbers

Of Nottinghamshire's 280 care homes, 257 have a CQC rating; 84% of those are Good or Outstanding, against 83% for England. Nursing homes make up 89 of the total, or 32%. Our modelled typical self-funder price for a care home bed in Nottinghamshire is £1,290 a week, compared with £1,290 regionally and £1,520 nationally. That splits into roughly £1,250 for residential places and £1,540 for nursing places.

£33.50 an hour: that is our estimate of a typical private fee for an hour of home care locally (East Midlands: £33.50; England: £33.50). It is not a quote. The middle-sized care home in Nottinghamshire has 26 beds, and the 280 homes with a registered bed count total 9,018.

No single company leads in Nottinghamshire: Creative Care (East Midlands) Limited and Voyage 1 Limited run 9 services each. Nottinghamshire has 24 Outstanding care homes; 16% of its rated care homes (40) sit below Good; England: 17%.

Data: CQC, Oct 2026. Prices: The Care Panel fee index, Q4 2026.

How care in Nottinghamshire is rated

• Agencies: 203 on the register, 90% Good or Outstanding where inspected (much the same as 88% nationally), 78 still unrated.
• Homes: 280 on the register, 84% Good or Outstanding where inspected (much the same as 83% nationally), 23 still unrated.