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Where are the most owners leaving?

Exit rates run from 0.0% to 50.0%; the typical system lost 3.5% of its locations.

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
CareBuilders at Home: 0.0%Home Matters Caregiving: 0.0%Right at Home: 0.4%Comfort Keepers: 0.7%Home Instead: 1.6%Visiting Angels: 1.7%FirstLight Home Care: 2.0%ComForCare: 2.4%Senior Helpers: 2.8%BrightStar Care: 2.9%Griswold: 3.3%Assisting Hands Home Care: 3.5%SYNERGY HomeCare: 4.7%A Place At Home: 5.6%Homewatch CareGivers: 5.6%Seniors Helping Seniors: 5.6%One You Love Homecare: 7.1%Amada Senior Care: 9.2%Executive Home Care: 9.5%HomeWell Care Services: 12.2%Nurse Next Door: 16.4%Hallmark Homecare: 25.0%HomeCare Advocacy Network: 50.0%
Source: 2026 filings, read from each system's own disclosure documentHomecareHQ Intelligence · 2026 FDDs

HomeCare Advocacy Network lost 50.0% of its franchised locations last year — more than any other system here

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

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 exit rate is the share of a system's franchised locations that left during the year — closed, terminated, not renewed or bought back by the franchisor.

›How to read it

Exit rate — The exit rate is the share of a system's franchised locations that left during the year — closed, terminated, not renewed or bought back by the franchisor.

Higher means more owners left. Lower means more owners stayed.

It does not count locations that changed hands between owners; those are transfers.

Every system on this measure

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

Exit rate for every home care franchise system, from 2026 franchise disclosure documents
SystemExit rate
A Place At Home5.6%50Emerging
Amada Senior Care9.2%261Scaling
Assisting Hands Home Care3.5%232Scaling
BrightStar Care2.9%396Scaling
CareBuilders at Home0.0%28Early
ComForCare2.4%271Scaling
Comfort Keepers0.7%619Scaling
Executive Home Care9.5%79Emerging
FirstLight Home Care2.0%238Scaling
Griswold3.3%198Scaling
Hallmark Homecare25.0%59Emerging
Home Instead1.6%626Mature
Home Matters Caregiving0.0%31Emerging
HomeCare Advocacy Network50.0%7Early
Homewatch CareGivers5.6%260Scaling
HomeWell Care Services12.2%201Scaling
Nurse Next Door16.4%71Emerging
One You Love Homecare7.1%24Early
Right at Home0.4%566Scaling
Senior Helpers2.8%394Scaling
Seniors Helping Seniors5.6%224Scaling
SYNERGY HomeCare4.7%626Scaling
Visiting Angels1.7%541Mature

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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