Home health care costs $6,769 a month in the middle state, across 50 states with published 2025 figures. Half of states fall between $6,221 and $7,627. Mississippi is the least expensive at $4,576 and Wyoming the most expensive at $8,771. Monthly figures for home health care are quoted at 44 hours a week, the survey standard. Home health is priced here at the survey's merged rate for non-medical home caregivers, because the survey no longer prices skilled nursing or therapy visits separately. Skilled visits are usually billed per visit.
Figures are for a non-medical caregiver, from the CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025.
By ElderCareCosts Research · Updated Aug 10, 2026
Median of 50 state medians, monthly
$6,769/mo
Range across state medians $6,221 – $7,627 how this range is derived
● the United States $6,769
This is a median of 50 state medians, not a survey of households. Each state contributes one figure regardless of how many people live there, so a small state moves the number exactly as much as a large one. Read it as the typical state, not the typical family. The District of Columbia has no published 2025 figure for home health care, so it is left out of this median; the table shows its 2024 estimate, marked as such. Your own cost depends on the metro you are in, the level of care, and the room type, which is why the state and city pages carry a narrower figure than this one.
Why our figure differs from other sites. CareScout's own 2025 national figure is $35 an hour for a non-medical caregiver, about $6,673 a month at 44 hours a week, a median across every provider it surveyed. Ours is the middle of the 50 state medians, so each state counts once and the two can differ. Other sites may quote a different survey year or an average of facility prices. Every figure here states its source and period so you can compare like with like.
Why in-home care and home health care show the same figure. The 2025 survey merged the two into one non-medical caregiver rate, so this page and the in-home care cost page carry the same 2025 numbers. The difference is in what the care includes and who can bill Medicare for it, not in the survey price.
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Every figure below is $35.50 an hour times the hours, times 52 weeks, divided by 12 months.
Home health care is billed by the hour, so the monthly number moves with the schedule more than with anything else. The middle state works out to $35.50 an hour: that is the $6,769 monthly median divided by 44 hours a week over 52 weeks. Multiply the rate by the hours you actually need.
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Overnight and live-in arrangements are often priced as a flat daily rate rather than by the hour, so the 24/7 row is an upper bound on what an agency would quote, not a quote.
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Every family starts with a number. Here is roughly what each monthly budget buys at national midpoints. Bands shift with your state, so check the state page before planning against them.
Almost nobody pays for long-term care out of one pocket. Most families start with savings and income, then add a second source once the first thins out. The five payers below are ordered by how often they carry the bill, not by how much they pay. Eligibility for the government programs is set state by state, so the state page is where the rules get specific.
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Open a state for its own range, city detail, and funding rules.
The gap between the cheapest and most expensive state is the single largest thing on this page. Wyoming at $8,771 more than 92 percent Mississippi at $4,576 for the same category of home health care. Local wages, real estate, and staffing rules drive most of that, which is why a national figure is a starting point and a state figure is the one to plan against.
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Blank rows are honest. A state with no figure means we have no published source for it, not that care is unavailable there. We would rather show a gap than a guess.
Start from your state's figure in the table above, then adjust for your schedule and city with these tools.
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Cite this: According to ElderCareCosts' 2026 index, home health care in the United States costs $6,769/month (median, 2025 data) at the 44-hour-a-week survey standard.
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$6,769 a month in the middle state, across 50 states with published 2025 figures. Half of states fall between $6,221 and $7,627. Your state's own figure is in the table above and is the better number to plan against.
Direct-care wages are the largest single input, and they track the local labor market. Real estate, staffing ratios set by state regulation, and general cost of living account for most of the rest.
No. It is the median of 50 state medians, so every state counts once regardless of population. A mean would sit higher because a few expensive states pull it up.
Yes. The CSV on this page has one row per state plus a national summary row, with the period, methodology version, and source tags on every row. Reuse it with attribution.
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The state figures on this page come from BLS wage data, May 2025, CareScout Cost of Care Survey 2025, carried under methodology cost-model-v1.4.0. The national row is computed from those state figures on this page and is not itself a survey result.
We check the model against rates a state publishes itself where we can find them. Connecticut posts per-agency private-pay rates, and for home health care the modeled Connecticut figure lands within 3 percent of the observed statewide median of those filings. That is one state and two care types, not a national accuracy claim, and it is the only such check we have published so far.
We correct figures in public when a source revises or we get one wrong. If a number here does not match what a provider quoted you, tell us and we will check it.