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What does it cost to open the doors?

Startup investment, low end runs from $17K to $177K; the typical system reports $103K.

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.

Across all 23 systems
Home Matters Caregiving: $17KSYNERGY HomeCare: $52KHomeWell Care Services: $69KA Place At Home: $89KHome Instead: $93KRight at Home: $94KSeniors Helping Seniors: $95KOne You Love Homecare: $95KAssisting Hands Home Care: $98KGriswold: $100KComForCare: $102KBrightStar Care: $103KExecutive Home Care: $104KHallmark Homecare: $110KCareBuilders at Home: $111KNurse Next Door: $119KComfort Keepers: $120KAmada Senior Care: $122KVisiting Angels: $125KFirstLight Home Care: $127KHomeCare Advocacy Network: $142KHomewatch CareGivers: $143KSenior Helpers: $177K
Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs

Senior Helpers puts the cost of opening at $177K and up — more than any other system here

Sorted highest to lowest. Hatched rows are filings that say nothing.

Across all 23 systems
Senior Helpers: $177KSenior Helpers$177KHomewatch CareGivers: $143KHomewatch CareGivers$143KHomeCare Advocacy Network: $142KHomeCare Advocacy Net…$142KFirstLight Home Care: $127KFirstLight Home Care$127KVisiting Angels: $125KVisiting Angels$125KAmada Senior Care: $122KAmada Senior Care$122KComfort Keepers: $120KComfort Keepers$120KNurse Next Door: $119KNurse Next Door$119KCareBuilders at Home: $111KCareBuilders at Home$111KHallmark Homecare: $110KHallmark Homecare$110KExecutive Home Care: $104KExecutive Home Care$104KBrightStar Care: $103KBrightStar Care$103KHome Instead: $93KHome Instead$93KA Place At Home: $89KA Place At Home$89KHomeWell Care Services: $69KHomeWell Care Services$69KSYNERGY HomeCare: $52KSYNERGY HomeCare$52KHome Matters Caregiving: $17KHome Matters Caregivi…$17K

6 systems between the highest and lowest are not drawn here. The full field is in the data table below.

Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs
›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 bottom of the range the filing gives for everything it takes to open, including the franchise fee.

›How to read it

Startup investment, low end — The bottom of the range the filing gives for everything it takes to open, including the franchise fee.

Higher means a costlier opening even at best. Lower means a cheaper way in.

It is the franchisor's estimate, not a quote, and it excludes losses before break-even.

Every system on this measure

Sort any column. A blank means the filing does not disclose it, never zero.

Startup investment, low end for every home care franchise system, from 2026 franchise disclosure documents
SystemStartup investment, low end
A Place At Home$89K50Emerging
Amada Senior Care$122K261Scaling
Assisting Hands Home Care$98K232Scaling
BrightStar Care$103K396Scaling
CareBuilders at Home$111K28Early
ComForCare$102K271Scaling
Comfort Keepers$120K619Scaling
Executive Home Care$104K79Emerging
FirstLight Home Care$127K238Scaling
Griswold$100K198Scaling
Hallmark Homecare$110K59Emerging
Home Instead$93K626Mature
Home Matters Caregiving$17K31Emerging
HomeCare Advocacy Network$142K7Early
Homewatch CareGivers$143K260Scaling
HomeWell Care Services$69K201Scaling
Nurse Next Door$119K71Emerging
One You Love Homecare$95K24Early
Right at Home$94K566Scaling
Senior Helpers$177K394Scaling
Seniors Helping Seniors$95K224Scaling
SYNERGY HomeCare$52K626Scaling
Visiting Angels$125K541Mature

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.
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