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CQC care ratings across England

Aggregate figures across the 31,294 CQC-registered adult social care locations in our copy of the register, covering 505,543 registered care-home beds. These are counts only — no home is singled out here.

Outstanding Good Requires improvement Inadequate — the Care Quality Commission's own four-point rating scale.
Source: Care Quality Commission register · Ratings are the CQC's own · Generated 25 Oct 2026

Overall CQC rating distribution

CQC ratingHomesShare of rated
Good18,67377%
Requires improvement3,45714%
Outstanding1,0965%
Not Rated8263%
Inadequate1631%
Inspected but not rated320%
Insufficient evidence to rate210%
No published rating40%

Share is of the 24,272 locations that carry a published CQC rating.

Registered locations by region

RegionLocations
South East5,705
London4,048
North West3,769
East3,679
West Midlands3,530
South West3,334
East Midlands3,077
Yorkshire & Humberside2,885
North East1,257
Wales2

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Contains public sector information published by the Care Quality Commission, the independent regulator of health and adult social care in England, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0; last verified against the CQC register on 25 Oct 2026. Ratings shown are the CQC's own published ratings. MyCareGuard is an independent service and is not affiliated with, or endorsed by, the Care Quality Commission.

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