Thanet has more nursing and residential homes per capita than almost anywhere else in the country.
The district has one home for every 1,523 local residents – the eighth highest ratio in the UK, according to local information website locallife.co.uk.
Tony Martin, chairman of locallife.co.uk, said: “It may come as no surprise to some that Thanet is a care home hotspot. It has a higher proportion of older people than over 90 per cent of other local authorities, with more than a quarter of local residents aged 60 or over. This is a clear case of supply and demand.
“The UK’s ageing populatioThe district has one home for every 1,523 local residents the eighth highest ratio in the UK, according to local information website locallife.co.uk.Tony Martin, chairman of locallife.co.uk, said: It may come as no surprise to some that Thanet is a care home hotspotn - combined with Thanet’s popularity as a retirement destination - means there’s unlikely to be a slowdown in demand for care homes in the area any time soon. Pressure on rooms in Thanet’s nursing and residential homes is good news for the local jobs market in the long term.”
Eastbourne finished top of the care home rankings, with a care home per 836 people, closely followed by Watford and Bognor Regis, which have a home for every 1,053 and 1,096 residents respectively. Hastings and Denbighshire completed the top five. Fourteen of the top twenty places for care homes per head of population are coastal areas.
By contrast, Tower Hamlets has the shortest supply of care homes relative to population size. Each care home in the London borough serves more than 20,000 local residents. Seven London boroughs – Hackney, Hammersmith & Fulham, Camden, Greenwich, Westminster, Newham and Tower Hamlets - feature in the ten worst places for care provision.