Home care business: Homecare Agency Economics
The median published figure in the Homecare Agency Economics is 139,487.50 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 102,475 to 176,500 USD), read 11 October 2026.
Handovra sells its own paid plan in this category (our pricing). It is not counted here: every figure in this index is another provider's own published price, read from its own page.
2 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 11 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 139,487.50 USD across 2).
Every figure, with its source
One row per source: the figure the source's own page publishes, the page, and the day it was read. A figure that is not on a page we read is not on this one.
| Source | Figure | Read |
|---|---|---|
| Senior Helpers, franchise investment | 176,500USD | 2026-10-11 |
| ComForCare, franchise startup costs | 102,475USD | 2026-10-11 |
The sentence each figure was read from (2)
- Senior Helpers, franchise investment, read 2026-10-11:
Our home care franchise costs range from $176,500 - $231,500 in initial expenses, with a 5% ongoing royalty fee.
- ComForCare, franchise startup costs, read 2026-10-11:
Our average franchise owner generated more than $2 million in revenue last year. The total initial investment necessary to begin operating a new ComForCare franchise is between $102,475 and $163,925, which includes the $29,500-$59,000 initial franchise fee, which increases based on the number of potential clients in a territory.
Read in full, publishes no figure
15 named sources were read in full on the dates shown and print no usable figure. They are counted, never filled in.
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, home health and personal care aides, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- BLS OEWS, home health and personal care aides (31-1120), read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BLS, health care and social assistance industry at a glance, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- CMS, National Health Expenditure data, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- CMS, NHE fact sheet, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- CMS, home health prospective payment system, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- MedPAC, chapter 8 home health care services (March 2026 report), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- US Census Bureau, Statistics of US Businesses, read 2026-09-12: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- SBA, funding programs (loans), read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- Grants.gov, search grants, read 2026-10-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- BrightStar Care, cost to start a home healthcare business, read 2026-10-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- 1Heart Caregivers, initial franchise cost, read 2026-09-11: read in full and no accepted figure on the page
- CareDiem, cost to start a home care business, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- Home Care How To, home care business costs, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
- The Business of Senior Care, senior care business startup costs, read 2026-09-11: every candidate on the page was refused
Methodology
Every row is a verbatim sentence read from the named source's own page through our fetch service on the date shown, hash-pinned to the stored read (the sha of the page's visible text; the raw page is mirrored to R2).
2 of the 17 named sources that could be read published a usable figure; 15 published none and are recorded as not published, never filled in; 0 could not be read (blocked, dead or unreachable) and count nowhere.
The headline figures (median, minimum, maximum, quartiles) are over ONE figure per source in USD (a source's median where its page yielded several accepted sentences), so N counts sources, never sentences; 84 candidate sentence(s) were refused by a reviewer with the reason recorded.
The fuller derivation this dataset is chartered to grow into (not yet what the figures above are; they are each source's own published figure as read): the BLS wage series for home health and personal care aides by state joined to the CMS payment rates and the MedPAC margin, and beside them the startup investment each franchisor is obliged to publish.
The derived figures: the gross margin per caregiver hour by state (billable rate less the state's median aide wage and its employer burden), how that margin has moved since the wage series began rising, and the spread between a franchise entry and an independent one at the same licence cost - the number every 'is a home care business profitable' page asserts and none computes.
84 candidate sentences on these pages were refused by a reviewer; each refusal and its reason is recorded in the review ledger.
Sources (17)
- BLS Occupational Outlook Handbook, home health and personal care aides(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS OEWS, home health and personal care aides (31-1120)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BLS, health care and social assistance industry at a glance(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CMS, National Health Expenditure data(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CMS, NHE fact sheet(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CMS, home health prospective payment system(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- MedPAC, chapter 8 home health care services (March 2026 report)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- US Census Bureau, Statistics of US Businesses(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- SBA, funding programs (loans)(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Grants.gov, search grants(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- ComForCare, franchise startup costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Senior Helpers, franchise investment(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- BrightStar Care, cost to start a home healthcare business(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- 1Heart Caregivers, initial franchise cost(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- CareDiem, cost to start a home care business(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- Home Care How To, home care business costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
- The Business of Senior Care, senior care business startup costs(the publisher's own terms; quoted for reporting and comment)
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The median published figure in the Homecare Agency Economics is 139,487.50 USD across 2 sources' own pages (range 102,475 to 176,500 USD), read 11 October 2026.
2 of the 17 named sources read in full publish a figure; 15 publish none, read 11 October 2026.
The median is unchanged since 26 September 2026 (was 139,487.50 USD across 2).
Cite as: "Handovra Homecare Agency Economics", updated 2026-10-18, https://handovra.com/datasets/homecare-agency-economics/.
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