What does it cost to buy a home care franchise?
Initial fees run from $50K to $72K; the typical system charges $52K.
All 23 systems disclose this.
Where each of the 23 systems that disclose it sits
Each dot is a system. The rule is the middle value.
Nurse Next Door charges $72K to buy the franchise — more than any other system here
Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.
6 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.
›View data & method
All 23 systems disclose this. Figures are read from each system’s own 2026 franchise disclosure document. How this data is built
The one-off fee paid to the franchisor to buy the franchise, before any of the other costs of opening.
›How to read it
Initial franchise fee — The one-off fee paid to the franchisor to buy the franchise, before any of the other costs of opening.
Higher means more cash up front. Lower means a cheaper entry.
It is not the cost of opening — equipment, staff and working capital sit outside it.
Every system on this measure
Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.
| System | Initial franchise fee | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| A Place At Home | $50K | 50 | Emerging |
| Amada Senior Care | $57K | 261 | Scaling |
| Assisting Hands Home Care | $55K | 232 | Scaling |
| BrightStar Care | $50K | 396 | Scaling |
| CareBuilders at Home | $50K | 28 | Early |
| ComForCare | $59K | 271 | Scaling |
| Comfort Keepers | $55K | 619 | Scaling |
| Executive Home Care | $50K | 79 | Emerging |
| FirstLight Home Care | $50K | 238 | Scaling |
| Griswold | $50K | 198 | Scaling |
| Hallmark Homecare | $60K | 59 | Emerging |
| Home Instead | $54K | 626 | Mature |
| Home Matters Caregiving | $52K | 31 | Emerging |
| HomeCare Advocacy Network | $50K | 7 | Early |
| Homewatch CareGivers | $50K | 260 | Scaling |
| HomeWell Care Services | $50K | 201 | Scaling |
| Nurse Next Door | $72K | 71 | Emerging |
| One You Love Homecare | $50K | 24 | Early |
| Right at Home | $50K | 566 | Scaling |
| Senior Helpers | $55K | 394 | Scaling |
| Seniors Helping Seniors | $55K | 224 | Scaling |
| SYNERGY HomeCare | $55K | 626 | Scaling |
| Visiting Angels | $52K | 541 | Mature |
HomecareHQ analysis of 23 home care franchise systems’ 2026 disclosure documents. Listed alphabetically until you sort it.
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How to read this data
- These are each system's own disclosures, not our opinion of them. Every number on this page comes out of a filing the system published itself. Where we calculate something — an effective royalty, a fee load, a growth rate — we show the inputs and the formula alongside it.
- A blank means the filing did not say, never zero. Systems disclose different things, so most measures are filed by some of the field and not all of it. Where a figure rests on part of the field, we say how much of it.
- Nothing here is a ranking. Most of these measures have no better direction: a lower royalty is not automatically a better system, and a bigger territory is not automatically a better deal. We show where a system sits and leave the judgement to you.
Ask HQ answers with the same benchmarks — your growth, your fees, your margins.