Data study
How long since your local care homes were last rated?
The typical age of care homes’ current CQC ratings, and the share rated more than three years ago, for every council in England.
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CQC data as at 25 September 2026, updated monthly · Download the data (CSV)
Every council
| Rank | Council | Rated care homes | Median age of rating | Rated 3+ years ago | Rated 2+ years ago | Most recent rating |
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Methodology
Source: the Care Quality Commission's monthly “Latest ratings” file, taken from CQC's database (Open Government Licence v3.0). It covers every active care home in England registered with CQC, whether or not it is listed on AskBart, grouped by the council CQC records for the home. The date shown at the top is the date CQC's data is “as at”.
For each rated home we take the date its current overall rating was published. A home may have been inspected or assessed more recently without getting a new rating (for example “insufficient evidence to rate”); those visits are not counted here, so this measures how old the rating families see is, not how long since CQC last visited.
Councils are ranked by the median age of their care homes' ratings, oldest first. Councils with fewer than 10 rated care homes are listed but not ranked.
See also how AskBart's data is sourced and this month's CQC rating changes and closures.
Use this data
The data is free to reuse under CC BY 4.0: please credit AskBart with a link to this page. It contains public sector information from the CQC licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
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AskBart (2026). How long since your local care homes were last rated?. Analysis of Care Quality Commission ratings data as at 25 September 2026. https://www.askbart.org/insights/care-home-rating-age-by-council
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