- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanybydder, SA40 9RX
- 27 registered places
Wales
Care homes in Carmarthenshire
There are 77 care homes in Carmarthenshire registered with Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), the regulator of social care in Wales. Between them they have 1,399 registered places.
CIW rates each service on themes such as well-being and care and support, and gives no overall rating. 65 of them have ratings from CIW; the breakdown below counts each theme separately, in CIW’s own words. 12 have no ratings shown, because CIW has not published ratings for them yet. CIW data as at 13 October 2026.
Find the right one near you
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How care homes in Carmarthenshire are rated
CIW rates each service on themes and gives no overall rating. For each theme, this is how many services have each rating, in CIW’s own words. The themes are counted separately and we never add them together or turn them into a score of our own.
Well-being
65 services rated
- Excellent27 (42%)
- Good38 (58%)
- Requires improvement0 (0%)
- Requires significant improvement0 (0%)
Care and support
65 services rated
- Excellent17 (26%)
- Good48 (74%)
- Requires improvement0 (0%)
- Requires significant improvement0 (0%)
Environment
65 services rated
- Excellent12 (18%)
- Good53 (82%)
- Requires improvement0 (0%)
- Requires significant improvement0 (0%)
Leadership and management
65 services rated
- Excellent17 (26%)
- Good44 (68%)
- Requires improvement4 (6%)
- Requires significant improvement0 (0%)
12 services have no ratings shown: CIW started rating care homes and home care in April 2025 and has not yet published ratings for every service. What the ratings mean.
Care homes in Carmarthenshire
Showing 1 to 20 of 77 services.
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA15 3DR
- 47 registered places
- No CIW ratings published yet
- Llandeilo, SA19 6SY
- 38 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA14 8AX
- 6 registered places
- No CIW ratings published yet
- Carmarthen, SA33 4BZ
- 23 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Requires improvement
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Burry Port, SA16 0AJ
- 39 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Excellent
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llandeilo, SA19 6DB
- 10 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Requires improvement
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Ammanford, SA18 2JD
- 9 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA14 9LR
- 26 registered places
- No CIW ratings published yet
- Llanelli, SA15 4AJ
- 7 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llandeilo, SA19 6UL
- 24 registered places
Caemaen Residential Care Home
Care home
Run by Carmarthenshire County Council Adults and Children's Services
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA15 3DE
- 30 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Excellent
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Kidwelly, SA17 4TF
- 6 registered places
- No CIW ratings published yet
- Ammanford, SA18 3HS
- 49 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Excellent
- Environment: Excellent
- Leadership and management: Excellent
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Pencader, SA39 9HL
- 15 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA15 4RT
- 12 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Excellent
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Carmarthen, SA31 3HS
- 7 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Good
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA15 4RB
- 49 registered places
- Well-being: Excellent
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Excellent
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llandovery,, SA20 0LP
- 11 registered places
- Well-being: Good
- Care and support: Good
- Environment: Good
- Leadership and management: Requires improvement
CIW ratings, one for each theme; no overall rating
- Llanelli, SA15 5HU
- 8 registered places
Other kinds of care in Carmarthenshire
Services registered with CIW here, by kind of care.
Care homes in nearby areas
Councils close by. You can often look further afield for more choice.
Questions about care in Carmarthenshire
How many care homes are there in Carmarthenshire?
There are 77 care homes in Carmarthenshire registered with Care Inspectorate Wales (CIW), the regulator of social care in Wales. Between them they have 1,399 registered places.
How are care homes in Carmarthenshire rated?
CIW rates each service on themes such as well-being and care and support, and gives no overall rating. 65 of them have ratings from CIW; the breakdown below counts each theme separately, in CIW’s own words. 12 have no ratings shown, because CIW has not published ratings for them yet. CIW data as at 13 October 2026. In Wales, CIW rates each service on themes, not as a whole: well-being, care and support, environment and leadership and management (the environment theme applies to care homes only). Each theme gets one of four ratings: Excellent, Good, Requires improvement or Requires significant improvement. It gives no overall rating, so we do not show one. Adult placement (Shared Lives) services are not rated. We show each rating as CIW publishes it and never turn it into a score of our own.
How do I choose a care home in Carmarthenshire?
Start with the help the person needs now and might need later, and shortlist a few services near the people who will visit. Check each one’s latest CIW grades and how old it is, read its latest inspection report, and where you can, visit or meet the team more than once before you decide. Ask what is included in the fees and what happens if needs change. This is general information, not advice.
Who pays for care in Carmarthenshire?
It depends on the person’s needs and finances. Some people pay for all of their own care, some get help from their council, and the NHS pays for some health care. The first step is to ask your local council for a free assessment of care needs: that is the council’s adult social care team. We do not show prices and this is general information, not advice.
How up to date is this information?
This page uses CIW data as at 13 October 2026. We check for new data from the regulator every day, and each service page shows the date of the data it uses.
Choosing care homes
A care home is a place to live where staff help with things like washing, dressing, eating and taking medicines, day and night. Care homes without nursing do not have a nurse on duty.
Things to check
- Visit more than once, at different times of day, and ask to see where meals are served.
- Ask how many staff are on duty at night, and how often agency staff are used.
- Ask what is included in the weekly fee and what costs extra, and how often fees can change.
- Read the latest CIW report, not only the rating, and ask the manager about anything it raises.
Whoever ends up paying, you can ask your council’s adult social care team for a free assessment of what help you need. Our guide explains what to expect and what to ask.
About this information
CIW data as at 13 October 2026. Services not currently providing care, and services that are no longer registered, are not listed.
Contains information from Care Inspectorate Wales © Crown copyright 2026, licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Care Comparison is independent and is not connected to or endorsed by Care Inspectorate Wales.