Care home demand by town: East of England
Every town we cover in East of England, each a 5-mile care catchment. The figure on each card is beds per 100 residents aged 85+ (national 32.5); green means undersupplied. For the administrative view, see East of England by local authority.
Abbots Langley37.7
2,843 beds · 77 homes
Arlesey29.8
1,160 beds · 26 homes
Attleborough35.1
288 beds · 10 homes
Baldock31.7
828 beds · 14 homes
Basildon21.8
1,328 beds · 40 homes
Beccles27
266 beds · 8 homes
Bedford39.1
1,620 beds · 65 homes
Benfleet26.9
2,567 beds · 89 homes
Berkhamsted24.1
854 beds · 27 homes
Biggleswade29.2
469 beds · 14 homes
Billericay20.4
1,102 beds · 30 homes
Bishop's Stortford34.4
709 beds · 14 homes
Borehamwood33.5
3,719 beds · 92 homes
Braintree53.3
1,068 beds · 27 homes
Brentwood29.8
1,602 beds · 40 homes
Bungay42.6
285 beds · 8 homes
Buntingford25.3
118 beds · 4 homes
Burnham-on-Crouch36.9
233 beds · 11 homes
Bury St Edmunds41.6
989 beds · 21 homes
Cambridge30.9
1,489 beds · 31 homes
Chatteris36.3
208 beds · 6 homes
Chelmsford29.9
1,242 beds · 21 homes
Clacton-on-Sea35.3
1,231 beds · 61 homes
Colchester46.2
1,641 beds · 72 homes
Cromer32.7
464 beds · 20 homes
Dereham36.9
624 beds · 20 homes
Diss34.5
391 beds · 11 homes
Downham Market29.8
267 beds · 5 homes
Dunmow29.4
224 beds · 5 homes
Dunstable30.9
1,634 beds · 49 homes
Ely32.5
445 beds · 11 homes
Epping23.5
835 beds · 16 homes
Eye33.5
329 beds · 8 homes
Fakenham24.5
176 beds · 6 homes
Felixstowe32.5
644 beds · 21 homes
Frinton-on-Sea35.9
1,082 beds · 51 homes
Grays43
1,806 beds · 51 homes
Great Yarmouth29.5
811 beds · 26 homes
Halesworth15.7
95 beds · 3 homes
Halstead69.5
690 beds · 25 homes
Harleston5.9
36 beds · 4 homes
Harlow18.6
625 beds · 13 homes
Harpenden28.6
894 beds · 27 homes
Harwich37
676 beds · 26 homes
Hatfield25.3
1,346 beds · 48 homes
Haverhill29.5
256 beds · 6 homes
Hemel Hempstead28.7
1,262 beds · 34 homes
Hertford33.1
1,142 beds · 24 homes
Hitchin34.1
1,556 beds · 32 homes
Hockley24.5
1,849 beds · 58 homes
Hoddesdon28.4
1,401 beds · 31 homes
Holt34.4
288 beds · 5 homes
Hunstanton43.9
396 beds · 14 homes
Huntingdon43.3
771 beds · 16 homes
Ingatestone14.4
574 beds · 15 homes
Ipswich34.7
1,722 beds · 39 homes
King's Lynn33.1
542 beds · 14 homes
Knebworth29.1
1,277 beds · 29 homes
Leigh-on-Sea29.8
2,922 beds · 111 homes
Leighton Buzzard41.5
656 beds · 11 homes
Leiston29.1
266 beds · 6 homes
Loughton27.4
2,545 beds · 69 homes
Lowestoft35.2
1,055 beds · 29 homes
Luton26.9
1,540 beds · 53 homes
Maldon35.5
665 beds · 19 homes
Manningtree29.7
341 beds · 6 homes
March33.6
352 beds · 11 homes
Newmarket29.9
339 beds · 5 homes
North Walsham35.2
427 beds · 14 homes
Norwich36
2,482 beds · 70 homes
Ongar20
192 beds · 4 homes
Peterborough38.1
1,623 beds · 38 homes
Potters Bar30.3
2,020 beds · 60 homes
Purfleet-on-Thames24.2
1,826 beds · 56 homes
Rickmansworth37.1
2,711 beds · 74 homes
Royston34
397 beds · 10 homes
Saffron Walden30.2
287 beds · 5 homes
Sandy27.9
339 beds · 10 homes
Sawbridgeworth22.8
801 beds · 15 homes
Saxmundham30.7
221 beds · 5 homes
Shefford25.2
479 beds · 11 homes
Sheringham40.5
556 beds · 20 homes
Southend-on-Sea32.5
2,032 beds · 92 homes
Southminster27.1
188 beds · 9 homes
St Albans32.7
1,757 beds · 57 homes
St Neots44.3
545 beds · 18 homes
Stanford-le-Hope22.5
863 beds · 29 homes
Stevenage37.7
1,548 beds · 34 homes
Stowmarket42
603 beds · 13 homes
Sudbury31.9
477 beds · 12 homes
Swaffham47.1
379 beds · 7 homes
Tring19.4
366 beds · 11 homes
Waltham Cross26.2
1,695 beds · 58 homes
Ware38.2
1,042 beds · 20 homes
Watford37.6
3,532 beds · 94 homes
Welwyn Garden City36.4
1,513 beds · 41 homes
Wickford22.8
1,664 beds · 42 homes
Wisbech40.5
620 beds · 12 homes
Witham41.3
749 beds · 24 homes
Woodbridge36.3
447 beds · 10 homes
Wymondham23.5
261 beds · 7 homes
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Estimates from CQC HSCA Active Locations and ONS population + 2022-based projections under the Open Government Licence. For research and site screening. Updated July 2026.