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154 local authorities · 14,873 care homes (485,220 beds) · as assigned in CQC's bulk data. Each area page shows the local ratings mix against England, the services currently rated below Good, this month's registrations and deregistrations, and the largest groups operating there.

Data as at 11 Jul 2026 · source: CQC

North East (12 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
County Durham	215	146	5,371
Darlington	54	32	1,305
Gateshead	100	50	2,079
Hartlepool	40	27	1,007
Middlesbrough	78	48	1,793
Newcastle upon Tyne	124	73	2,627
North Tyneside	88	43	1,766
Northumberland	149	95	3,499
Redcar and Cleveland	66	43	1,356
South Tyneside	55	34	1,340
Stockton-on-Tees	104	58	2,013
Sunderland	137	87	2,690

North West (24 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Blackburn with Darwen	77	35	1,083
Blackpool	98	71	1,720
Bolton	131	59	1,906
Bury	109	51	1,570
Cheshire East	207	108	4,943
Cheshire West and Chester	174	85	3,349
Cumberland	150	78	2,347
Halton	42	25	747
Knowsley	64	27	1,051
Lancashire	717	423	13,527
Liverpool	207	85	3,451
Manchester	217	82	2,190
Oldham	113	46	1,659
Rochdale	121	61	1,624
Salford	103	42	1,493
Sefton	164	111	3,527
St. Helens	86	41	1,411
Stockport	147	67	2,677
Tameside	74	35	1,415
Trafford	120	56	1,713
Warrington	110	56	2,133
Westmorland and Furness	116	59	1,931
Wigan	117	58	2,354
Wirral	167	111	3,421

Yorkshire and The Humber (15 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Barnsley	131	71	2,262
Bradford	224	109	4,135
Calderdale	101	48	1,366
Doncaster	161	81	2,567
East Riding of Yorkshire	214	151	5,731
Kingston upon Hull, City of	141	78	2,238
Kirklees	216	127	3,526
Leeds	404	159	6,051
North East Lincolnshire	86	55	1,859
North Lincolnshire	76	59	1,933
North Yorkshire	378	205	7,407
Rotherham	145	84	2,614
Sheffield	264	115	4,234
Wakefield	182	96	2,964
York	89	42	1,939

East Midlands (10 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Derby	201	74	2,481
Derbyshire	400	244	7,627
Leicester	290	101	2,827
Leicestershire	341	162	5,254
Lincolnshire	428	285	9,242
North Northamptonshire	273	113	3,465
Nottingham	227	78	2,014
Nottinghamshire	495	281	9,177
Rutland	25	11	452
West Northamptonshire	289	108	3,451

West Midlands (14 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Birmingham	637	281	7,544
Coventry	225	72	2,048
Dudley	159	92	2,546
Herefordshire, County of	137	86	2,227
Sandwell	199	94	2,190
Shropshire	207	118	3,873
Solihull	125	63	2,410
Staffordshire	465	269	8,749
Stoke-on-Trent	174	84	2,703
Telford and Wrekin	115	40	1,326
Walsall	161	72	2,069
Warwickshire	325	174	6,191
Wolverhampton	210	73	2,334
Worcestershire	310	178	6,732

East of England (11 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bedford	168	73	1,703
Cambridgeshire	296	142	5,702
Central Bedfordshire	122	65	2,084
Essex	908	408	13,370
Hertfordshire	606	256	10,047
Luton	113	35	994
Norfolk	523	322	10,373
Peterborough	169	38	1,585
Southend-on-Sea	166	86	1,857
Suffolk	419	196	8,155
Thurrock	110	27	732

London (33 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Barking and Dagenham	191	23	657
Barnet	192	79	3,016
Bexley	109	31	1,618
Brent	158	49	1,048
Bromley	145	52	1,900
Camden	63	11	510
City of London	14	0	0
Croydon	307	129	3,475
Ealing	151	36	1,456
Enfield	211	82	2,014
Greenwich	154	43	962
Hackney	56	13	314
Hammersmith and Fulham	55	11	622
Haringey	97	24	375
Harrow	160	52	1,435
Havering	184	60	1,971
Hillingdon	146	47	1,557
Hounslow	112	32	885
Islington	70	18	758
Kensington and Chelsea	29	11	443
Kingston upon Thames	91	44	1,588
Lambeth	100	35	983
Lewisham	139	50	908
Merton	102	35	872
Newham	122	23	595
Redbridge	213	76	1,353
Richmond upon Thames	79	45	1,247
Southwark	79	13	521
Sutton	131	69	1,365
Tower Hamlets	94	10	387
Waltham Forest	107	46	1,026
Wandsworth	73	26	1,278
Westminster	32	9	488

South East (19 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bracknell Forest	49	18	781
Brighton and Hove	154	85	2,009
Buckinghamshire	277	134	4,930
East Sussex	414	296	9,036
Hampshire	867	480	15,753
Isle of Wight	98	61	1,798
Kent	943	503	15,724
Medway	188	66	1,720
Milton Keynes	235	49	1,684
Oxfordshire	336	148	6,962
Portsmouth	95	31	943
Reading	104	32	1,002
Slough	93	16	570
Southampton	163	52	1,504
Surrey	710	387	15,067
West Berkshire	93	47	1,252
West Sussex	582	341	10,961
Windsor and Maidenhead	74	42	1,887
Wokingham	99	46	1,364

South West (15 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bath and North East Somerset	87	55	1,900
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	265	136	4,604
Bristol, City of	193	91	2,847
Cornwall	324	200	4,887
Devon	488	312	8,658
Dorset	215	121	4,504
Gloucestershire	394	200	6,172
Isles of Scilly	1	1	14
North Somerset	142	97	2,962
Plymouth	146	88	2,270
Somerset	320	197	6,304
South Gloucestershire	169	83	2,580
Swindon	103	46	1,282
Torbay	105	74	2,002
Wiltshire	323	165	5,212

Region not recorded by CQC (1 local authority)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Flintshire	2	0	0

"Services" counts every active CQC-registered adult social care location; beds are registered care-home beds. Local-authority assignment is CQC's own, taken verbatim from the bulk files — 14,873 of England's 14,877 care homes are assigned to a local authority in CQC's file; the remainder carry no assignment.