What care costs in Thurrock

Thurrock care prices at a glance

The gap between two agencies is often bigger than the gap between regions. Ask for complete price lists, with weekend and bank holiday charges. According to the Homecare Association, councils in England need to pay at least £34.42 an hour in 2026/27 for home care to be sustainable. An average conceals big differences. 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 weekly cost calculator, then check your contribution with What will I pay?

Local picture: Thurrock

£1,480 a week: that is our estimate of a typical private fee for a care home place locally (East of England: £1,500; England: £1,520). It is not a quote. Nursing places run at about £1,690, residential at about £1,460. Runwood Homes Limited and Satash Community Care Project Limited jointly run the most registered services in Thurrock, 3 each.

Our modelled typical self-funder price for an hour's help at home in Thurrock is £33.50 an hour, compared with £33.50 regionally and £33.50 nationally. 92% of rated care homes in Thurrock are Good or Outstanding, better than the England average of 83%. The area has 26 homes, 25 of them rated. 19% (5) are registered to provide nursing care.

Care homes in Thurrock reporting a bed count offer 676 beds between them, with 13 beds in the middle-sized home. 1 care home in Thurrock is rated Outstanding, and 2 are rated Requires improvement or Inadequate (8% of those rated; the England share is 17%).

Based on the register as of Oct 2026, with Q4 2026 fee estimates from our index.

Quality of care services in Thurrock

82 home care agencies and 26 care homes are registered with CQC in Thurrock. Of those rated, 89% of agencies are Good or Outstanding (in line with the England figure of 88%) and 92% of care homes (above England's 83%). 37 agencies and 1 care homes have not been rated yet.