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
Same-sector Item 7 peers
Nearest Item 7 peer: Interim HealthCare ($123K)
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.
- 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.
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
- Franchise Fee
- $50K
Revenue Data (Item 19)
- 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
Net Growth Rate
Year-over-year unit change
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
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.
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Related reading for Home Instead: Understanding FDDs , Home Instead lists Item 19 revenue here, how Item 19 fits the 23-item FDD.
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.
Similar listed investment
Nearest Item 7 lows ($125K here).
Similar network size
Nearest total location counts (1,200 here).
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.
Read our methodology - what this registry can and cannot establish.
Source: PlainFranchise editorial registry Record-level FDD source link and retrieval date pending
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