Senior Care · registry year 2024 · HQ NE

Home Instead Franchise

A Honor / Home Instead brand operating in the senior care sector, franchising since 1995. According to the 2024 FDD filing for Home Instead, this is an editorial comparison record; it does not reproduce the brand's current FDD.

$125K – $175K
Initial investment · Mid-range entry cost
5.0%
Royalty rate · Mid-range royalty
1,200
Total locations · Mid-size network
$1.4M
Avg unit revenue · Above-average unit revenue

FDD outlay schedule

Registry home-instead Home Instead

Home Instead needs $125K–$175K to open and charges a 5.0% royalty - an entry cost above the typical senior care franchise.

  • LO $125K
  • HI $175K
  • FEE $50K
  • ROY 5.0%
  • UNT 1,200
  • I19 Disclosed
  • INV# #140/223
  • UNT# #82/223

Nearest Item 7 peer: Interim HealthCare ($123K)

Home Instead (this)$125KInterim HealthCare$123KBrightStar Care$102KComfort Keepers$92KRight at Home$80KVisiting Angels$78K
Home Instead Item 7 listed-low neighbourhood vs nearest senior care peers

Same-sector Item 7 neighbourhood for Home Instead (registry year 2024). Listed lows only - not a profit, cost-of-living, or suitability claim. Verify the current FDD before relying on these figures. How we place brands →

Franchise Opportunity Health Score

How healthy and transparent Home Instead's franchise system looks, from 2 of 2 tracked dimensions.

74 C
  • Network momentum 2.5% net unit growth (YoY) 48/100 · F
  • Financial disclosure Item 19 disclosed 100/100 · A

Benchmarked against the 223-brand tracked corpus (p10-p90 range per dimension); a higher score means a growing unit count and a disclosed Item 19. See how we place brands.

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Where Home Instead's investment ranks nationally

Home Instead's listed Item 7 low of $125K against every one of the 218 tracked franchise brands with a disclosed initial investment. Listed figures only, verify in the current FDD before relying on them.

Home Instead vs all tracked franchise brands by listed investment

Initial investment low (FDD Item 7), PlainFranchise brand corpus

$125,000 Lower than most lower than 64% of 218 franchise brands

Franchise brands, banded by listed Item 7 low

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Source PlainFranchise editorial comparison registry · 2024-12-31

Investment Overview

Investment Range $125K – $175K
Franchise Fee
$50K

Revenue Data (Item 19)

Item 19 Disclosed Franchisor provided financial performance data
Average Revenue
$1.4M
gross revenue per location

* Revenue figures are gross revenue (sales), not profit. This registry does not report operating costs or profit.

Network Size & Growth

1,200
Franchised
0
Company-Owned
+60
Opened (Last Year)

Net Growth Rate

Year-over-year unit change

2.5% growth

30 locations closed in the last reporting year

Quick Facts

Sector
Senior Care
Subsector
in home care
Founded
1994
Franchising Since
1995
Headquarters
NE
FDD Year
2024
Item 19
Disclosed

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Important Notice · Home Instead

This Home Instead page is a registry comparison record, not a verified FDD extract. It does not establish suitability, operating costs, profitability, or expected results for Home Instead.

What the Home Instead FDD reveals

Signature read: 1,200 locations · Item 7 low $125K

Home Instead, a Honor / Home Instead franchise, has been franchising since 1995 - 1 years after the concept was founded in 1994 , currently with 1,200 total locations (1,200 franchised, 0 company-owned; 100% of the recorded total is franchised) in the senior care sector, headquartered in NE. The registry records a total initial investment between $125K and $175K, recorded as a low-to-high range in the registry. The registry separately records a franchise-fee field of $50K; its summary does not reproduce every Item 7 line item.

Ongoing royalties run 5.0% of gross sales. The registry records an Item 19 field for Home Instead. Financial-performance disclosure in Item 19 is voluntary under the FTC Franchise Rule. The reported average gross revenue per location is $1.4M; applying the listed royalty rate to that reported average yields $70K as a simple arithmetic illustration, not a cost or profit estimate. This reported revenue field is not a profitability measure; operating costs are outside this registry.

Network momentum is currently positive: Home Instead added units at a 2.5% net rate year-over-year (60 openings, 30 closures). The registry records both the reported percentage and the count of openings and closures when those fields are available.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does a Home Instead franchise cost?
The registry lists total initial investment of $125K to $175K for a Home Instead franchise. The initial franchise fee is $50K. Ongoing royalties are 5.0% of gross sales.
How many Home Instead locations are there?
Home Instead's network totals 1,200 locations (1,200 franchisee-owned). The network is growing at 2.5% year-over-year.
What are the ongoing fees for a Home Instead franchise?
Home Instead's ongoing royalty is 5.0% of gross sales. These listed fee fields are separate from the listed initial-investment range.

Related reading for Home Instead: Understanding FDDs , Home Instead lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.

Home Instead among nearby senior care registry records: listed entry cost and network size Scatter plot of 9 data points. 0 locations500 locations1000 locations1500 locations $40k$60k$80k$100k$120k$140k Listed initial investment low ($000) Total locations (Item 20) Home InsteadInterim HealthCareBrightStar CareComfort KeepersRight at HomeVisiting AngelsAssisting HandsSenior HelpersGriswold Home Care
Home Instead among nearby senior care registry records: listed entry cost and network size

Snapshot uses the registry's listed Item 7 initial-investment low and Item 20 location-count fields. It is a descriptive comparison, not a ranking or investment recommendation.

How Home Instead's Item 7 and Item 19 fields are labeled (expand)

Nationwide brands with similar investment or network size

Two data-derived peer sets for Home Instead , both outside HQ state NE : nearest Item 7 lows and nearest total-location counts, not the same-sector roster below.

What to do with this

Home Instead at a glance, drawn from the same figures above.

  • Home Instead scores 74/100 (C) on our composite opportunity read, combining net unit growth and Item 19 financial-disclosure transparency.
  • Its $125K – $175K entry cost runs above the typical senior care franchise.
  • Ranks #140 of 223 listed franchises by initial investment. See rankings
  • Interim HealthCare sits at a comparable investment level ($123K) in the same sector. Compare

Editorial comparison registry, not a source-linked FDD record. Verify the current FDD before relying on any figure.

Editorial comparison registry; a source filing is not linked to this record. Verify the current FDD before relying on a figure.

Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending