Mobile Menu

Home Care Providers in Canada - Market Research Report (2015-2030)

Marley Brocker Marley Brocker New York, United States Last Updated: January 2025 NAICS 62161CA

Revenue

$12.5bn

2025

$12.5bn

Past 5-Year Growth

Profit

$X.Xbn

Employees

91,402

Businesses

5,223

Wages

$X.Xbn

Home Care Providers in Canada industry analysis

Home care providers in Canada play a crucial role in supporting the aging population. The number of adults aged 65 and older is rapidly outpacing the national population growth, leading to a strong and increasing demand for home care services. Older Canadians often need assistance with complex, chronic health conditions and daily activities and there is a growing preference among them to stay in their homes as they age. Despite the expanding market, home care providers face significant challenges, including staffing shortages and inflation. COVID-19 worsened existing labour shortages, exacerbating an already critical situation. The industry struggles to keep up with the increasing demand because of a workforce stretched thin by high turnover rates and burnout. Still, the expanding role of home care providers has led to industry revenue growth at a CAGR of 1.7%, reaching an estimated $12.5 billion, with expected growth of 2.3% in 2025.

Trends and Insights

  • Home care providers support Canada’s growing senior population. Older adults’ complex needs and preference to live independently are behind the rising spending on home care.
  • Adults 75 and over are most dependent on home care providers. This age group is most prone to developing chronic health conditions or mobility issues that make help and support with daily activities extremely valuable.
  • Ontario has the most home care agencies in Canada. Ontario’s large population lends itself to having the greatest share of agencies, but ongoing labour shortages still threaten access to care in this province.
  • A positive reputation is the most valuable competitive advantage. Families will only entrust the care of their loved ones to home care agencies with established histories of high-quality, safe and reliable care.

Access hundreds of data points and trends

  • Market estimates from 2015-2030
  • Critical performance data and rankings
  • Detailed analysis of competitive forces and the external environment
  • PDF report or online database with Word, Excel and PowerPoint export options
  • 100% money back guarantee

Industry Statistics and Trends

Market size and recent performance (2015-2030)

Industry revenue has grown at a CAGR of 1.7 % over the past five years, to reach an estimated $12.5bn in 2025.

Trends and Insights

A demographic shift creates an imbalance between supply and demand

  • Canada’s population of adults 65 and older is growing faster than its national population. Older adults present with more complex, chronic health conditions that require ongoing support and care to manage. Healthy older people also occasionally require assistance with daily activities, providing a large and growing market for home care services in recent years.
  • Additional trends and insights available with purchase
Home Care Providers in Canada
Revenue (2015-2030)
Alfabank-Adres Logo Source: Alfabank-Adres

Industry outlook (2025-2030)

Market size is projected to grow over the next five years.

Trends and Insights

An aging population will augment home care providers’ role

  • Demographic trends will remain the largest force driving demand for a robust home care market moving forward. Complex needs of a growing older adult population combined with general population growth will lead to a larger, more dynamic market for home care providers.

Biggest companies in the Home Care Providers in Canada

Company
Market Share (%)
2025
Revenue ($m)
2025
Profit ($m)
2025
Profit Margin (%)
2025

There are no companies that hold a large enough market share in the Home Care Providers in Canada industry for Alfabank-Adres to include in this product.

Products & Services Segmentation

Home Care Providers in Canada
Products & Services
Alfabank-Adres Logo Source: Alfabank-Adres

Industry revenue is measured across several distinct product and services lines, including Traditional home healthcare and nursing care, Home hospice care and Home therapy services. Traditional home healthcare and nursing care is the largest segment of the Home Care Providers in Canada.

Trends and Insights

Traditional home healthcare and nursing care dominates

  • The traditional home healthcare and nursing care segment in the Home Care Providers industry in Canada includes medical care provided in a patient's home by healthcare professionals.
  • More insights available in the full report

Table of Contents

About this industry

Industry definition

A home care provider is a professional or organization that offers various supportive services to individuals who need assistance with activities of daily living or medical care in their homes. These providers offer personalized care tailored to each client's specific needs and preferences, aiming to promote independence, improve quality of life and enhance overall well-being.

What's included in this industry?

Providing homemaker and companion servicesProviding home hospice careProviding home nursing careProviding in-home therapy

Companies

Purchase this report to view all major companies in this industry.

Related Terms

CANADA HEALTH TRANSFERDURABLE MEDICAL EQUIPMENTHOSPICETELEHEALTH

Industry Code

NAICS 2007

NAICS 621610 - Home Care Providers in Canada

Performance

Get an indication of the industry's health through historical, current and forward-looking trends in the performance indicators that make or break businesses.

Analyst insights

Home care providers support Canada’s growing senior population. Older adults’ complex needs and preference to live independently are behind the rising spending on home care.

In this chapter (4)

  • Current Performance
  • Outlook
  • Volatility
  • Life Cycle

Key metrics

  • Annual Revenue, Recent Growth, Forecast, Revenue Volatility
  • Number of Employees, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Employee
  • Number of Businesses, Recent Growth, Forecast, Employees per Business, Revenue per Business
  • Total Profit, Profit Margin, Profit per Business

Charts

  • Revenue, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Employees, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Businesses, including historical (2015-2024) and forecast (2025-2030)
  • Profit, including historical (2015-2025)
  • Industry Volatility vs. Revenue Growth
  • Industry Life Cycle

Detailed analysis

  • Trends in supply, demand and current events that are driving current industry performance
  • Expected trends, economic factors and ongoing events that drive the industry's outlook
  • Key success factors for businesses to overcome volatility
  • How contribution to GDP, industry saturation, innovation, consolidation, and technology and systems influence the industry's life cycle phase.

Products and Markets

Learn about an industry's products and services, markets and trends in international trade.

Analyst insight

Adults 75 and over are most dependent on home care providers. This age group is most prone to developing chronic health conditions or mobility issues that make help and suppo...

In this chapter

  • Products & Services
  • Major Markets

Key metrics

  • Largest market segment and value in 2025
  • Product innovation level

Charts

  • Products & services segmentation in 2025
  • Major market segmentation in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Trends impacting the recent performance of the industry's various segments
  • Innovations in the industry's product or service offering, specialization or delivery method
  • Key factors that successful businesses consider in their offerings
  • Buying segments and key trends influencing demand for industry products and services

Geographic Breakdown

Discover where business activity is most concentrated in an industry and the factors driving these trends to find opportunities and conduct regional benchmarking.

Analyst insights

Ontario has the most home care agencies in Canada. Ontario’s large population lends itself to having the greatest share of agencies, but ongoing labour shortages still threat...

In this chapter (1)

  • Business Locations

Charts

  • Share of revenue, establishment, wages and employment in each province
  • Share of population compared to establishments in each region in 2025

Tables

  • Number and share of establishments in each province in 2025
  • Number and share of revenue each province accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of wages each province accounts for in 2025
  • Number and share of employees in each province in 2025

Detailed analysis

  • Geographic spread of the industry across North America, and trends associated with changes in the business landscape
  • Key success factors for businesses to use location to their advantage

Competitive Forces

Get data and insights on what's driving competition in an industry and the challenges industry operators and new entrants may face, with analysis built around Porter's Five Forces framework.

Analyst insights

A positive reputation is the most valuable competitive advantage. Families will only entrust the care of their loved ones to home care agencies with established histories of ...

In this chapter (4)

  • Concentration
  • Barriers to Entry
  • Substitutes
  • Buyer & Supplier Analysis

Key metrics

  • Industry concentration level
  • Industry competition level and trend
  • Barriers to entry level and trend
  • Substitutes level and trend
  • Buyer power level and trend
  • Supplier power level and trend

Charts

  • Market share concentration among the top 4 suppliers from 2020-2025
  • Supply chain including upstream supplying industries and downstream buying industries, flow chart

Detailed analysis

  • Factors impacting the industry’s level of concentration, such as business distribution, new entrants, or merger and acquisition activity.
  • Key success factors for businesses to manage the competitive environment of the industry.
  • Challenges that potential industry entrants face such as legal, start-up costs, differentiation, labor/capital intensity and capital expenses.
  • Key success factors for potential entrants to overcome barriers to entry.
  • Competitive threats from potential substitutes for the industry’s own products and services.
  • Key success factors for how successful businesses can compete with substitutes.
  • Advantages that buyers have to keep favorable purchasing conditions.
  • Advantages that suppliers have to maintain favorable selling conditions.
  • Key success factors for how businesses can navigate buyer and supplier power.

Companies

Learn about the performance of the top companies in the industry.

Analyst insights

No single home care provider controls the Canadian market. The nature of home care services limits any single company from holding a market share of 5.0% or more.

In this chapter

  • Market Share Concentration
  • Companies
  • Company Spotlights

Charts

  • Industry market share by company in 2021 through 2025
  • Major companies in the industry, including market share, revenue, profit and profit margin in 2025

Detailed analysis

    External Environment

    Understand the demographic, economic and regulatory factors that shape how businesses in an industry perform.   

    Analyst insights

    The Canada Health Act doesn’t include home care providers. The extent of home care coverage is left up to individual provinces instead, creating vast differences in cost, acc...

    In this chapter

    • External Drivers
    • Regulation & Policy
    • Assistance

    Key metrics

    • Regulation & policy level and trend
    • Assistance level and trend

    Charts

    • Regulation & Policy historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 
    • Assistance historical data and forecast (2015-2030) 

    Detailed analysis

    • Demographic and macroeconomic factors influencing the industry, including Regulation & Policy and Assistance
    • Major types of regulations, regulatory bodies, industry standards or specific regulations impacting requirements for industry operators
    • Key governmental and non-governmental groups or policies that may provide some relief for industry operators.

    Financial Benchmarks

    View average costs for industry operators and compare financial data against an industry's financial benchmarks over time. 

    Analyst insights

    Home care workers cite low pay, stress and uncertain working hours as reasons for leaving the industry. Labour shortages force home care agencies to offer higher wages and mo...

    In this chapter

    • Cost Structure
    • Financial Ratios
    • Key Ratios

    Key metrics

    • Profit margin, and how it compares to the sector-wide margin
    • Average wages, and how it compares to the sector-wide average wage
    • Largest cost component as a percentage of revenue
    • Industry average ratios for days' receivables, industry coverage and debt-to-net-worth ratio

    Charts

    • Average industry operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
    • Average sector operating costs as a share of revenue, including purchases, wages, depreciation, utilities, rent, other costs and profit in 2025
    • Investment vs. share of economy

    Data tables

    • Liquidity Ratios (2018-2023)
    • Coverage Ratios (2018-2023)
    • Leverage Ratios  (2018-2023)
    • Operating Ratios (2018-2023)
    • Assets (2018-2023)
    • Liabilities (2018-2023)
    • Cash Flow & Debt Service Ratios (2015-2030)
    • Revenue per Employee (2015-2030)
    • Revenue per Enterprise (2015-2030)
    • Employees per Establishment (2015-2030)
    • Employees per Enterprise (2015-2030)
    • Average Wage (2015-2030)
    • Wages/Revenue (2015-2030)
    • Establishments per Enterprise (2015-2030)
    • IVA/Revenue (2015-2030)
    • Imports/Demand (2015-2030)
    • Exports/Revenue (2015-2030)

    Detailed analysis

    • Trends in the cost component for industry operators and their impact on industry costs and profitability 

    Key Statistics

    Industry Data

    Data Tables

    Including values and annual change:

    • Revenue (2015-2030)
    • IVA (2015-2030)
    • Establishments (2015-2030)
    • Enterprises (2015-2030)
    • Employment (2015-2030)
    • Exports (2015-2030)
    • Imports (2015-2030)
    • Wages (2015-2030)

    Top Questions Answered

    Unlock comprehensive answers and precise data upon purchase. View purchase options.

    What is the market size of the Home Care Providers industry in Canada in 2025?

    The market size of the Home Care Providers industry in Canada is $12.5bn in 2025.

    How many businesses are there in the Home Care Providers in Canada industry in 2025?

    There are 5,223 businesses in the Home Care Providers industry in Canada, which has grown at a CAGR of 6.2 % between 2020 and 2025.

    Has the Home Care Providers industry in Canada grown or declined over the past 5 years?

    The market size of the Home Care Providers industry in Canada has been growing at a CAGR of 1.7 % between 2020 and 2025.

    What is the forecast growth of the Home Care Providers industry in Canada over the next 5 years?

    Over the next five years, the Home Care Providers industry in Canada is expected to grow.

    What does the Home Care Providers in Canada include?

    Providing homemaker and companion services and Providing home hospice care are part of the Home Care Providers industry.

    How competitive is the Home Care Providers industry in Canada?

    The level of competition is high and steady in the Home Care Providers industry in Canada.

    Related Industries

    Widen your competitive advantage with related industries

    Competitors

    • There are no industries to display.

    View all industries in Canada

    Methodology

    How are Alfabank-Adres reports created?

    Alfabank-Adres has been a leading provider of trusted industry research for over 50 years to the most successful companies worldwide. With offices in Australia, the United States, the United Kingdom, Germany and China, we are proud to have local teams of analysts that conduct research, data analysis and forecasting to produce data-driven industry reports.

    Our analysts start with official, verified and publicly available sources of data to build the most accurate picture of each industry. Analysts then leverage their expertise and knowledge of the local markets to synthesize trends into digestible content for Alfabank-Adres readers. Finally, each report is reviewed by one of Alfabank-Adres’s editors, who provide quality assurance to ensure accuracy and readability.

    Alfabank-Adres relies on human-verified data and human-written analysis to compile each standard industry report. We do not use generative AI tools to write insights, although members can choose to leverage AI-based tools within the platform to generate additional analysis formats.

    What data sources do Alfabank-Adres analysts use?

    Each industry report incorporates data and research from government databases, industry-specific sources, industry contacts, and our own proprietary database of statistics and analysis to provide balanced, independent and accurate insights.

    Key data sources in Canada include:

    • Statistics Canada
    • Industry Canada
    • Canadian Business Patterns

    Analysts also use industry specific sources to complement catch-all sources, although their perspective may focus on a particular organization or representative body, rather than a clear overview of all industry operations. However, when balanced against other perspectives, industry-specific sources provide insights into industry trends.

    These sources include:

    • Industry and trade associations
    • Industry federations or regulators
    • Major industry players annual or quarterly filings

    Finally, Alfabank-Adres’s global data scientists maintain a proprietary database of macroeconomic and demand drivers, which our analysts use to help inform industry data and trends. They also maintain a database of statistics and analysis on thousands of industries, which has been built over our more than 50-year history and offers comprehensive insights into long-term trends.

    How does Alfabank-Adres forecast its data?

    Alfabank-Adres’s analysts and data scientists use the sources above to create forecasts for our proprietary datasets and industry statistics. Depending on the dataset, they may use regression analysis, multivariate analysis, time-series analysis or exponential smoothing techniques to project future data for the industry or driver. Additionally, analysts will leverage their local knowledge of industry operating and regulatory conditions to impart their best judgment on the forecast model.

    Alfabank-Adres prides itself on being a trusted, independent source of data, with over 50 years of experience building and maintaining rich datasets and forecasting tools. We are proud to be the keystone source of industry information for thousands of companies across the world.

    Learn more about our methodology and data sourcing on the Help Center.