Care home demand by town

Where is care short, town by town? This is CQC-registered bed supply set against ONS over-85 demand for 684 English towns, each a 5-mile catchment, from the same open data behind Threshold Care. Nationally there are 32.5 beds per 100 residents aged 85+. For the administrative view, browse care demand by local authority.

By region

All towns

A

Abbots Langley Abingdon Accrington Alcester Aldershot Alford Alfreton Alnwick Alresford Alton Altrincham Andover Arlesey Arundel Ascot Ashby-De-la-Zouch Ashford Ashington Ashton-under-Lyne Atherstone Attleborough Axminster Aylesbury

B

Bacup Bagshot Bakewell Baldock Bampton Banbury Barnard Castle Barnet Barnoldswick Barnsley Barnstaple Barrow-in-Furness Barrow-upon-Humber Barton-upon-Humber Basildon Basingstoke Bath Battle Beaconsfield Beaminster Beccles Bedale Bedford Bedworth Belper Bembridge Benfleet Berkeley Berkhamsted Berwick-upon-Tweed Beverley Bexhill-on-Sea Bicester Bideford Biggleswade Billericay Billingham Billingshurst Birchington Birmingham Bishop Auckland Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Blackpool Blandford Forum Blyth Bodmin Bognor Regis Bolton Bootle Bordon Borehamwood Boston Bourne Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Braintree Braunton Brentford Brentwood Bridgnorth Bridgwater Bridlington Bridport Brigg Brighouse Brighton Bristol Brixham Broadway Bromley Bromsgrove Bromyard Brough Buckingham Bude Budleigh Salterton Bungay Buntingford Burgess Hill Burnham-on-Crouch Burnham-on-Sea Burnley Burntwood Burton-on-Trent Bury Bury St Edmunds Buxton

C

Callington Calne Camberley Camborne Cambridge Cannock Canterbury Carlisle Carnforth Carterton Castleford Caterham Catterick Garrison Chard Chatteris Cheadle Cheddar Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Chesham Chester Chester le Street Chesterfield Chichester Chinnor Chippenham Chipping Campden Chipping Norton Chorley Christchurch Church Stretton Cinderford Cirencester Clacton-on-Sea Cleckheaton Clevedon Clitheroe Coalville Cobham Cockermouth Colchester Coleford Congleton Consett Corbridge Corby Corsham Cottingham Coventry Cowes Cramlington Cranbrook Cranleigh Crawley Crediton Crewe Crewkerne Cromer Crook Crowborough Crowthorne Croydon Cullompton

D

Dagenham Dalton-in-Furness Darlington Dartford Dartmouth Darwen Daventry Deal Deeside Derby Dereham Devizes Dewsbury Didcot Diss Doncaster Dorchester Dorking Dover Downham Market Driffield Droitwich Dronfield Dudley Dunmow Dunstable Durham Dursley

E

East Boldon East Grinstead Eastbourne Eastleigh Edenbridge Edgware Egremont Ellesmere Port Ely Emsworth Enfield Epping Epsom Erith Evesham Exeter Exmouth Eye

F

Fakenham Falmouth Fareham Faringdon Farnham Faversham Felixstowe Feltham Ferndown Filey Fleet Folkestone Fordingbridge Freshwater Frinton-on-Sea Frizington Frodsham Frome

G

Gainsborough Gateshead Gerrards Cross Gillingham Glastonbury Glossop Gloucester Godalming Goole Gosport Grange-Over-Sands Grantham Gravesend Grays Great Missenden Great Yarmouth Greenford Grimsby Guildford Guisborough

H

Hailsham Halesowen Halesworth Halifax Halstead Harleston Harlow Harpenden Harrogate Harrow Hartlepool Harwich Haslemere Hatfield Haverhill Hayes Hayle Hayling Island Haywards Heath Heathfield Hebden Bridge Helston Hemel Hempstead Henfield Henley-in-Arden Henley-on-Thames Hereford Herne Bay Hertford Hessle Hexham Heywood High Peak High Wycombe Hinckley Hitchin Hockley Hoddesdon Holmfirth Holt Honiton Hook Horley Horncastle Hornsea Horsham Houghton le Spring Huddersfield Hull Hungerford Hunstanton Huntingdon Hyde Hythe

I

Ilford Ilfracombe Ilkeston Ilkley Ilminster Immingham Ingatestone Ipswich Ivybridge

K

Keighley Kendal Kenilworth Kettering Kidderminster Kidlington King's Lynn Kingsbridge Knaresborough Knebworth Knottingley Knutsford

L

Lancaster Lancing Langport Launceston Leamington Spa Leatherhead Ledbury Leeds Leek Leicester Leigh Leigh-on-Sea Leighton Buzzard Leiston Leominster Lewes Leyland Lichfield Lincoln Lingfield Liphook Liskeard Liss Littlehampton Liverpool London Longfield Looe Loughborough Loughton Louth Lowestoft Ludlow Luton Lydney Lyme Regis Lymington Lymm Lytham St Annes

M

Mablethorpe Macclesfield Maidenhead Maidstone Maldon Malmesbury Malton Malvern Manchester Manningtree Mansfield March Margate Market Drayton Market Harborough Market Rasen Markfield Marlborough Marlow Martock Maryport Matlock Melksham Melton Mowbray Mexborough Middlesbrough Middlewich Millom Milton Keynes Minehead Mitcham Monmouth Morecambe Moreton-in-Marsh Morpeth

N

Nantwich Nelson Neston New Milton Newark Newbury Newcastle Newcastle upon Tyne Newent Newmarket Newport Pagnell Newquay Newton Abbot Newton Aycliffe Newton-le-Willows Normanton North Shields North Walsham Northallerton Northampton Northwich Northwood Norwich Nottingham Nuneaton

O

Oakham Okehampton Oldham Olney Ongar Ormskirk Orpington Oswestry Otley Ottery St Mary Oxford Oxted

P

Paignton Par Peacehaven Penrith Penzance Pershore Peterborough Peterlee Petersfield Pewsey Pickering Plymouth Polegate Pontefract Poole Portland Portsmouth Potters Bar Prescot Preston Princes Risborough Prudhoe Pudsey Pulborough Purfleet-on-Thames Purley

R

Radstock Ramsgate Reading Redcar Redditch Redhill Redruth Retford Rickmansworth Ringwood Ripley Ripon Rochdale Rochester Romford Romney Marsh Romsey Ross-on-Wye Rossendale Rotherham Royston Rugby Rugeley Runcorn Ryde Rye Ryton

S

Saffron Walden Salisbury Saltash Saltburn-by-the-Sea Sandbach Sandown Sandwich Sandy Sawbridgeworth Saxmundham Scarborough Scunthorpe Seaford Seaham Seaton Selby Sevenoaks Shaftesbury Sheerness Sheffield Shefford Shepton Mallet Sherborne Sheringham Shifnal Shipley Shrewsbury Sidcup Sidmouth Sittingbourne Skegness Skelmersdale Skipton Sleaford Slough Smethwick Snodland Solihull Somerton Southam Southampton Southend-on-Sea Southminster Southport Southwell Spalding Spennymoor St Albans St Austell St Columb St Helens St Ives St Leonards-on-Sea St Neots Stafford Staines-upon-Thames Stamford Stanford-le-Hope Stanley Stevenage Steyning Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Stone Stonehouse Stourbridge Stourport-on-Severn Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Sturminster Newton Sudbury Sunderland Surbiton Sutton Sutton Coldfield Sutton-in-Ashfield Swadlincote Swaffham Swanage Swanley Swindon

T

Tadley Tadworth Tamworth Tarporley Taunton Tavistock Teignmouth Telford Tenterden Tetbury Tewkesbury Thame Thirsk Thornton-Cleveleys Tiverton Todmorden Tonbridge Torpoint Torquay Torrington Totnes Towcester Tring Trowbridge Truro Tunbridge Wells Twickenham

U

Uckfield Ulverston Upminster Uttoxeter Uxbridge

V

Ventnor Verwood

W

Wadebridge Wadhurst Wakefield Wallasey Wallingford Wallsend Walsall Waltham Cross Walton-on-Thames Wantage Ware Warminster Warrington Washington Waterlooville Watford Watlington Wellingborough Wellington Wells Welwyn Garden City West Bromwich West Byfleet West Malling Westbury Westerham Weston-super-Mare Wetherby Weymouth Whitby Whitchurch Whitehaven Whitstable Wickford Widnes Wigan Wigston Wigton Willenhall Wilmslow Wimborne Wincanton Winchester Wingate Winscombe Winsford Wirral Wisbech Witham Withernsea Witney Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Woodbridge Woodhall Spa Woodstock Worcester Workington Worksop Worthing Wotton-under-Edge Wymondham

Y

Yarm Yelverton Yeovil York

Method: 5-mile catchment per town (towns derived from place names in HM Land Registry address data, deduped so nearby towns do not repeat). CQC HSCA Active Locations for beds and ratings; ONS small-area population and 2022-based projections for demand. The 32.5/100 benchmark is computed from the data. Open Government Licence. Estimates for research and site screening. Updated July 2026.