Care Home / Nursing succession in Northern Ireland

Name: Care Home / Nursing business succession in Northern Ireland
Creator: ExitRadar
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188 of 348 care home / nursing companies in Northern Ireland (54%) have a director aged 60 or over.

Companies measured348

Director aged 60+188

Exposure rate54%

Companies House register·Measured base 3,631,842·Data as at 11 October 2026·Full methodology

348

Companies measured

188

Director 60+

102

Director 70+

54%

Exposure rate

The UK average across all trades is 32.4%; care home / nursing nationally runs at 33.5%.

Measure	Companies
Care Home / Nursing companies in Northern Ireland measured	348
Oldest director aged 60 or over	188
Oldest director aged 70 or over	102

Of the 188 with a director over 60, 16 score 50 or higher on business quality. That figure is 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
Wales	399	46.4%
North East	239	45.3%
Scotland	334	45.2%
South West	757	39.8%
South East	1,562	36.3%
London	2,497	33.3%
Yorkshire & The Humber	602	32.8%
East of England	913	30.7%

Other trades in Northern Ireland

Trade	60+	Rate
Lettings	1,347	44.1%
Retail	1,052	25.8%
Investment	970	43.9%
Consultancy Services	885	36.5%
General Construction	817	40.4%
Agriculture	789	46.7%
Investment / Fund Management	731	39.4%
Property Development	722	46.3%

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 Northern Ireland", UK Business Succession Index, 11 October 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-care-home/northern-ireland/

Need a cut that is not published here, such as 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 3,631,842 active UK companies where Companies House records an age bracket for at least one serving director (94.0% of the 3,863,328 companies on the active register). A company counts as succession-exposed when its oldest serving director is 60 or over. We do not use 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 11 October 2026; updated quarterly, next update January 2027. Full methodology.