Where care-home beds actually are, per older resident

Across 205 British council areas there are 39.7 registered care-home beds for every 1,000 people aged 65 and over. The spread is wide: the best-provisioned areas have more than four times the beds per older resident of the least.

39.7beds per 1,000 aged 65+

515,577care-home beds counted

12,972,506people aged 65+ covered

205council areas

What this does and does not measure

Registered beds, not free beds. A registration is the maximum a home may take. It says nothing about vacancies, cost, or whether a home will accept a particular person.
Care homes only. Home-care agencies register no beds and cover areas that ignore council boundaries, so including them would make provision look denser than it is. They are counted on every area page instead.
People cross boundaries. Low provision does not mean local people go without — in much of inner London families place relatives outside the borough, and that shows here as a low rate rather than as unmet need.
England is counted at county level, as the Care Quality Commission publishes it, so a shire county is one row rather than its districts.
Northern Ireland is not included. The population figures come from Nomis, which covers Great Britain only; NISRA publishes Northern Ireland separately.
Areas with fewer than 5,000 residents aged 65+ are left out of the tables below.

Fewest beds per older resident

Area	Aged 65+	Care homes	Beds	Beds per 1,000
Haringey England	31,069	24	375	12.1
Hackney England	23,716	13	314	13.2
Westminster England	27,643	8	375	13.6
Camden England	27,160	10	428	15.8
Kensington and Chelsea England	23,486	10	373	15.9
Southwark England	29,969	13	521	17.4
Tower Hamlets England	20,317	10	387	19.1
Newham England	29,303	22	592	20.2
Argyll & Bute Scotland	24,791	17	510	20.6
Orkney Islands Scotland	5,877	5	124	21.1
Hammersmith and Fulham England	21,378	9	464	21.7
Hounslow England	37,855	31	825	21.8
Scottish Borders Scotland	32,754	24	741	22.6
Brent England	44,479	48	1,045	23.5
North Lanarkshire Scotland	64,861	27	1,526	23.5
Ceredigion Wales	19,594	21	467	23.8
Islington England	22,477	15	555	24.7
Na h-Eileanan Siar Scotland	7,249	8	180	24.8
Moray Scotland	22,803	15	583	25.6
Dumfries & Galloway Scotland	41,713	31	1,073	25.7
Richmond upon Thames England	34,511	40	893	25.9
Slough England	16,780	15	450	26.8
Bromley England	61,366	49	1,656	27.0
Thurrock England	24,842	26	676	27.2
Clackmannanshire Scotland	11,373	8	315	27.7

Most beds per older resident

Area	Aged 65+	Care homes	Beds	Beds per 1,000
Middlesbrough England	26,536	46	1,688	63.6
Leicester England	47,719	99	2,791	58.5
Denbighshire Wales	25,140	70	1,403	55.8
Blackpool England	30,394	65	1,680	55.3
Stoke-on-Trent England	46,529	82	2,567	55.2
Newcastle upon Tyne England	48,474	74	2,632	54.3
East Sussex England	152,307	282	8,062	52.9
North Somerset England	55,209	94	2,858	51.8
Torbay England	38,913	74	2,002	51.5
Croydon England	58,601	122	2,993	51.1
North East Lincolnshire England	35,303	54	1,802	51.0
Sefton England	69,531	111	3,527	50.7
Brighton and Hove England	41,753	86	2,103	50.4
Surrey England	245,022	348	12,247	50.0
East Riding of Yorkshire England	99,256	140	4,931	49.7
Kingston upon Hull, City of England	43,349	77	2,152	49.6
Derby England	45,389	68	2,234	49.2
Bedford England	34,234	72	1,679	49.0
Darlington England	24,376	30	1,194	49.0
Southend-on-Sea England	36,514	83	1,781	48.8
Nottingham England	39,820	76	1,942	48.8
Wolverhampton England	45,574	70	2,210	48.5
North Lincolnshire England	40,054	59	1,942	48.5
West Sussex England	217,984	331	10,384	47.6
Nottinghamshire England	188,852	275	8,977	47.5

Bed counts and care-home counts are from the four regulators’ registers as at the last rebuild of this site. Population aged 65 and over is the latest ONS mid-year estimate published through Nomis, under the Open Government Licence. Where the regulator names a shire county, the county population is used.