Calculate your care costs

You can use our care cost calculator to find out what you, or someone you look after, might need to pay towards social care.

Before you start

You'll need the following information about the person you're doing a calculation for:

  • date of birth
  • number of dependent children
  • savings
  • value of any property and land owned
  • income
  • housing costs

How it works

It takes about 5 minutes to calculate your care costs.

Your results will be an estimate based on the information you've entered. This information is not saved on our systems. 

The actual amount you're asked to pay for care may be different after a full financial assessment. 

You'll be able to calculate costs for:

  • residential care, which is the care that you get if you are living in a residential or nursing care home.
  • non-residential care, which is any other care and support services that you may be getting if you are not living in a residential or nursing care home.
Calculate your costs

What happens next?

Once you've completed using the care cost calculator, it'll provide links to information, tools and services that may be useful for you. 

Your results are not saved, so we recommend printing the page, downloading it as a document or simply writing the results down.

Please remember we cannot use the information you put into the calculator to complete your financial assessment. 

We can only complete our financial assessment once we have an AF1 form returned by you. This should be given to you by the person who is helping you to arrange your care and support services.