Home Care / Domiciliary: business succession in the UK

Name: Home Care / Domiciliary business succession in the UK
Creator: ExitRadar
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3,014 UK home care / domiciliary companies — 36.1% — have a director aged 60 or over.

3.6 points above the all-trades average of 32.5%.

Companies measured8,359

Director aged 60+3,014

Exposure rate36.1%

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

8,359

Companies measured

3,014

With a director 60+

1,189

With a director 70+

36.1%

Exposure rate

Of the 3,014 with a director over 60, 371 score 50 or higher on business quality — an output of our own scoring model, not a Companies House figure. How we score it.

Home Care / Domiciliary by region

Region	Companies	60+	Rate
Wales	255	110	43.1%
Scotland	321	136	42.4%
South West	613	256	41.8%
London	2,302	833	36.2%
South East	1,115	404	36.2%
North West	882	307	34.8%
West Midlands	713	240	33.7%
East of England	741	231	31.2%
Yorkshire & The Humber	604	186	30.8%
East Midlands	533	158	29.6%

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.

See UK Healthcare →

Part of the UK Business Succession Index.

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ExitRadar, "Home Care / Domiciliary: business succession in the UK", UK Business Succession Index, 13 August 2026. https://www.exitradar.co.uk/succession/health-home-care/

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.