Care Home / Nursing succession in East of England

Name: Care Home / Nursing business succession in East of England
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736 of 2,266 care home / nursing companies in East of England — 32.5% — have a director aged 60 or over.

That is the 3rd highest of 6 UK regions for this trade.

Companies measured2,266

Director aged 60+736

Exposure rate32.5%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,475,770·Data as at 13 August 2026·Full methodology

2,266

Companies measured

736

Director 60+

264

Director 70+

32.5%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.5%; care home / nursing nationally runs at 33.5%.

Measure	Companies
Care Home / Nursing companies in East of England measured	2,266
Oldest director aged 60 or over	736
Oldest director aged 70 or over	264

Of the 736 with a director over 60, 73 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Care Home / Nursing in other regions

Region	60+	Rate
Northern Ireland	180	53.3%
Scotland	312	45.2%
North East	230	44.7%
Wales	390	44%
South West	752	39.4%
South East	1,277	34.8%
London	2,795	33.9%
Yorkshire & The Humber	620	32.4%

Other trades in East of England

Trade	60+	Rate
Consultancy Services	6,652	38.7%
Lettings	5,623	39.6%
Retail	3,692	25%
Other Leisure	3,011	30.7%
Investment	2,999	30.9%
Agriculture	2,850	60.3%
Property Development	2,647	45.5%
Investment / Fund Management	2,597	37.4%

Combinations with fewer than 250 measured companies are not listed separately. They are still counted in every total on this page.

Next step

This page counts director ages across the whole register. If you are looking to buy rather than to research, our Healthcare pages go further: we score each company on business quality and exit timing, and shortlist the ones worth approaching.

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ExitRadar, "Care Home / Nursing succession in East of England", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-care-home/east-of-england/

Need a cut that is not published here — a different trade grouping, a finer geography, or the underlying distribution? Get in touch and we will usually provide it. Methodology.

Method. Figures cover the 3,475,770 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director — 93.8% of the 3,706,712 companies on the active register. A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over — not the board average, which would hide a 70-year-old founder sitting alongside younger co-directors. The business-quality figure covers only the subset our model assesses — see the methodology for why that is far smaller than the number with filed accounts. Data as at 13 August 2026; updated quarterly, next update October 2026. Full methodology.