Assisted living in North Carolina
DHSR publishes its licensed adult care homes (7 or more beds) and family care homes (2 to 6 beds) as spreadsheets, with the state's star rating. 1,075 homes are listed as licensed, 510 of them small homes. State source (opens in a new tab)
Prices: Assisted living prices aren't published by states; ask each home for a written fee schedule.
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What North Carolina licenses
- Licensing agency
- NC DHHS Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR)
- License types we list
- Adult Care Home, Family Care Home
- Small homes
- North Carolina licenses homes with 2 to 6 beds as Family Care Homes; we label them as small homes.
- Memory care
- Homes on DHSR's special care unit list are licensed to run a special care unit for people with Alzheimer's or related dementia.
How North Carolina publishes inspections
DHSR gives each home a star rating from 0 to 4 based on its inspections, and lists every penalty it imposed in the last 36 months. Inspection reports are searchable on DHSR's site by facility name. State inspection information (opens in a new tab)
What assisted living is
A place to live with meals, help with bathing, dressing and medicines, and someone on hand day and night. It isn’t a nursing home: there’s no round-the-clock nursing. Find nursing homes →
Small homes
Many states license small homes, often a house with 2 to 6 residents, under their own names (adult family home, family care home). We list them with the larger ones and label each as a small home with its bed count.
The state’s safety record
Where a state publishes its inspection findings, we show them in the state’s own words and scale, with the period and source. We don’t score, rank or sort homes by them.
By county
Counted by the home’s address. Each link opens the homes near a ZIP code in that county.
Source: NC DHHS Division of Health Service Regulation (DHSR). A license and an inspection record are not a recommendation. See every state we cover.