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153 local authorities · 14,866 care homes (486,297 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 published by CQC to 1 Sep 2026 · source: CQC

North East (12 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
County Durham	217	146	5,394
Darlington	54	32	1,305
Gateshead	100	50	2,079
Hartlepool	40	27	1,007
Middlesbrough	78	48	1,793
Newcastle upon Tyne	126	74	2,632
North Tyneside	92	43	1,766
Northumberland	149	95	3,499
Redcar and Cleveland	67	44	1,371
South Tyneside	55	34	1,340
Stockton-on-Tees	106	60	2,040
Sunderland	137	87	2,691

North West (24 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Blackburn with Darwen	77	35	1,083
Blackpool	96	69	1,667
Bolton	132	59	1,906
Bury	111	53	1,608
Cheshire East	207	106	4,963
Cheshire West and Chester	174	85	3,380
Cumberland	150	78	2,347
Halton	42	25	747
Knowsley	61	27	1,051
Lancashire	720	423	13,546
Liverpool	207	86	3,457
Manchester	221	82	2,168
Oldham	113	46	1,659
Rochdale	122	61	1,624
Salford	102	43	1,496
Sefton	164	111	3,527
St. Helens	86	41	1,411
Stockport	147	67	2,677
Tameside	74	35	1,415
Trafford	124	56	1,713
Warrington	109	56	2,133
Westmorland and Furness	116	59	1,931
Wigan	116	58	2,354
Wirral	167	112	3,449

Yorkshire and The Humber (15 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Barnsley	130	71	2,262
Bradford	226	108	4,099
Calderdale	101	47	1,347
Doncaster	162	81	2,567
East Riding of Yorkshire	213	151	5,771
Kingston upon Hull, City of	140	78	2,238
Kirklees	216	127	3,526
Leeds	406	160	6,138
North East Lincolnshire	84	55	1,859
North Lincolnshire	76	59	1,942
North Yorkshire	380	205	7,407
Rotherham	142	84	2,612
Sheffield	263	114	4,227
Wakefield	180	96	2,964
York	88	42	1,931

East Midlands (10 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Derby	199	74	2,481
Derbyshire	397	243	7,604
Leicester	292	102	2,854
Leicestershire	345	163	5,328
Lincolnshire	426	284	9,180
North Northamptonshire	274	113	3,465
Nottingham	233	78	2,014
Nottinghamshire	500	284	9,230
Rutland	26	11	452
West Northamptonshire	289	107	3,432

West Midlands (14 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Birmingham	639	282	7,624
Coventry	227	72	2,048
Dudley	163	92	2,546
Herefordshire, County of	138	86	2,227
Sandwell	196	94	2,187
Shropshire	206	117	3,829
Solihull	127	63	2,410
Staffordshire	469	273	9,070
Stoke-on-Trent	175	84	2,704
Telford and Wrekin	114	39	1,323
Walsall	161	71	2,047
Warwickshire	324	172	6,181
Wolverhampton	213	74	2,360
Worcestershire	311	177	6,673

East of England (11 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bedford	169	73	1,703
Cambridgeshire	298	140	5,688
Central Bedfordshire	124	65	2,148
Essex	904	409	13,409
Hertfordshire	609	257	10,141
Luton	110	35	994
Norfolk	522	320	10,391
Peterborough	174	38	1,585
Southend-on-Sea	166	85	1,862
Suffolk	417	196	8,156
Thurrock	109	26	676

London (33 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Barking and Dagenham	191	23	657
Barnet	191	78	3,004
Bexley	108	31	1,618
Brent	156	47	1,041
Bromley	145	53	1,920
Camden	63	11	510
City of London	15	0	0
Croydon	305	129	3,477
Ealing	149	35	1,445
Enfield	211	82	2,014
Greenwich	157	43	962
Hackney	56	13	314
Hammersmith and Fulham	55	11	622
Haringey	98	24	375
Harrow	159	52	1,435
Havering	186	60	1,971
Hillingdon	148	48	1,639
Hounslow	112	32	885
Islington	70	18	758
Kensington and Chelsea	29	11	443
Kingston upon Thames	91	44	1,588
Lambeth	101	35	983
Lewisham	142	49	893
Merton	103	35	872
Newham	123	23	595
Redbridge	217	78	1,422
Richmond upon Thames	75	42	1,029
Southwark	75	13	521
Sutton	133	69	1,365
Tower Hamlets	93	10	387
Waltham Forest	106	46	1,026
Wandsworth	73	26	1,278
Westminster	33	9	488

South East (19 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bracknell Forest	49	18	781
Brighton and Hove	154	85	2,037
Buckinghamshire	276	134	4,930
East Sussex	417	298	9,086
Hampshire	867	482	15,835
Isle of Wight	100	62	1,849
Kent	945	501	15,827
Medway	188	65	1,705
Milton Keynes	233	49	1,688
Oxfordshire	340	149	6,964
Portsmouth	98	31	943
Reading	103	32	1,002
Slough	92	16	570
Southampton	164	52	1,575
Surrey	717	392	15,285
West Berkshire	91	45	1,204
West Sussex	586	340	10,934
Windsor and Maidenhead	75	42	1,887
Wokingham	99	45	1,362

South West (15 local authorities)

Local authority	Services	Care homes	Beds
Bath and North East Somerset	87	55	1,900
Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole	266	135	4,587
Bristol, City of	195	91	2,846
Cornwall	324	200	4,943
Devon	483	308	8,628
Dorset	213	119	4,447
Gloucestershire	396	201	6,220
Isles of Scilly	2	2	26
North Somerset	143	96	2,933
Plymouth	147	88	2,270
Somerset	324	197	6,370
South Gloucestershire	172	82	2,571
Swindon	105	47	1,288
Torbay	105	74	2,002
Wiltshire	320	163	5,124

"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 — 14,866 of England's 14,869 care homes are assigned to a local authority in CQC's file; the remainder carry no assignment.