Benchmarking your home against local homes
How does our home compare with the homes families will compare us with?
Size, type, rating and age of every home in your council, so you can see where you stand.
When people use it: Once a year, and before setting fees or planning investment.
How it works, step by step
Every home near you
Filter to your district; sort by beds or newest.
Quality against England
Where the local share rated Good or better sits.
The views you will use
Ask the data in plain English
A real question and answer from Ask Orrery, the assistant inside the platform, for a care home owner in Kent (October 2026). It answers only from Orrery's data and the subscriber's own documents, and shows its sources.
A typical Kent care home is small to medium and is most likely rated Good. I can't give you a reliable typical type or age from the data I have.
- Size: about 30 beds. That is my own calculation from 14,824 beds across 487 homes (Orrery's Kent overview, from the CQC care directory, 1 October 2026).
- Rating: 79% of Kent homes are rated Good or better, against an England median of 84% (same source).
- Type: I can't give a type split. The nursing home count in the trend data shows zero for every quarter, so I haven't used it. Many recent registrations in the CQC list offer dementia care.
- Age: I don't have a typical registration age. The explorer only returned the newest homes, which wouldn't represent the whole county.
For a public example, I'd describe it as "a home of around 30 beds, most likely rated Good" and leave out type and age.
- Families compare you with the two or three nearest homes of a similar type, not the council average.
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