How much care costs in Southend-on-Sea

What care usually costs in Southend-on-Sea

The gap between two agencies is often bigger than the gap between regions. Ask for complete price lists, with weekend and bank holiday charges. 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. What a home charges turns on the room, the care level and whether nursing is part of it. Self-funders tend to be charged more than councils for the same room.

Getting an accurate price

• Per-hour rates on weekdays, in the evening, at weekends and on bank holidays.
• The minimum length of a call, and whether travel is charged.
• For a home: everything the weekly price covers, and how often it goes up.

Collect these in writing, run the totals through the care cost calculator tool, then check your contribution with What will I pay?

Quality of care services in Southend-on-Sea

78 home care agencies and 84 care homes are registered with CQC in Southend-on-Sea. Of those rated, 84% of agencies are Good or Outstanding (lower than the England figure of 88%) and 92% of care homes (higher than England's 83%). 33 agencies and 7 care homes have not been rated yet.

What the data shows for Southend-on-Sea

Our modelled typical self-funder price for a care home bed in Southend-on-Sea is £1,500 a week, compared with £1,500 regionally and £1,520 nationally. Nursing places run at about £1,690, residential at about £1,500. 92% of rated care homes in Southend-on-Sea are Good or Outstanding, ahead of the England average of 83%. The area has 84 homes, 77 of them rated. Of these, 13 provide nursing, which is 15% of homes in the area.

At the other end of the scale from the 2 Outstanding care homes, 6 of the area's rated care homes (8%) are Requires improvement or Inadequate; the England share is 17%. £33.50 an hour: that is our estimate of a typical private fee for an hour of home care locally (East of England: £33.50; England: £33.50). It is not a quote.

One company, Care In Style Limited, runs more services in Southend-on-Sea than any other: 6 (6 care homes). Next is SummerCare Limited with 5. Together the 84 care homes that report their size have 1,827 beds; the typical home has 17.

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