Care Home Prices in Poland. Q2 2026 Report

The average price of a stay in a private care home in Poland is PLN 5,665 per month for the cheapest option offered and PLN 6,183 for the most expensive one. Half of the market falls between PLN 5,000 and PLN 6,300. These are results from the Planeta Seniora database for price lists in force during the second quarter of 2026, computed across 487 facilities.

We are publishing them because care home prices are discussed a great deal in Poland, yet hard figures gathered from real offers are scarce. Below you will find the full results, a breakdown by voivodeship, a comparison with public data and a methodology you can check.

This is an updated edition of the report. The first version, published on 30 July 2026, rested on 23 facilities and gave an average of PLN 6,374. After importing data from the voivodes' register and from industry directories, the database grew to 718 listings and the sample with a published price to 487 facilities. Every figure has been recomputed on that sample. The quarter and the method have not changed, the sample size has.

Headline figures

• Average starting price: PLN 5,665 per month
• Average maximum price: PLN 6,183 per month
• Median: PLN 5,500 for the cheapest option, PLN 6,000 for the most expensive
• Half of the market falls between: PLN 5,000 and PLN 6,300
• Eight facilities in ten fall between: PLN 4,400 and PLN 7,000
• Cheapest facility: PLN 1,900
• Most expensive facility: PLN 10,000 as a starting price, PLN 12,900 at the top of its range
• Sample: 487 active commercial facilities publishing a price, out of 718 listings in the database

How prices are distributed

The market clusters in a broad but clear band. 86 per cent of facilities fall between PLN 4,000 and PLN 7,000 per month. The largest single band is PLN 5,500 to 5,999, which holds one facility in five. Below PLN 5,000 sits 24 per cent of the market, and PLN 7,500 or more only 6 per cent.

For a family looking for a place, the practical conclusion is this. A budget of PLN 5,000 opens up just under a third of the offers, and a budget of PLN 6,300 already three quarters. Above PLN 7,000 a narrow margin begins: one facility in ten sits there.

Price ranges, or the price you do not fully know

221 of the 487 facilities, that is 45 per cent, quote not a single price but a range. The average spread between the lower and upper bound is PLN 1,141, equal to 21 per cent of the starting price. Within that group the average starting price is PLN 5,631 and the average upper bound PLN 6,772. In practice the price in the listing and the price in the contract can differ by more than a thousand zloty a month, depending on room standard and the scope of care.

The share of facilities quoting a range has fallen since the first edition, where it was 61 per cent. That is not a change in the market but a consequence of where the new records come from: entries reconstructed from the voivodes' register more often carry a single amount than a full price list. The average width of the range stayed practically identical, 21 per cent against the earlier 21 per cent.

That is why, when comparing offers, it is worth asking directly about the price for a specific health condition and a specific room rather than relying on the headline rate.

Prices versus pensions: the gap families cover

The strongest figure in this report only emerges when our database is set against ZUS data. The average pension paid out by ZUS in May 2026 was PLN 4,480.74 gross.

At the average price of PLN 5,665, an average pension covers 79 per cent of the cost of a stay, and the gap to be covered by the family or the municipality comes to roughly PLN 1,184 per month. That is markedly less than in the first edition, where at an average of PLN 6,374 the gap reached about PLN 1,900.

The conclusion about affordability has changed too, and this is the biggest shift of all. The first edition stated that no facility in the database was reachable on an average pension alone. Across 487 facilities, 51 of them, one in ten, have a starting price at or below the average pension. That is still the margin of the market and usually means smaller, family-run homes outside the big cities, but on this sample the sentence "a pension alone will not do it" has to become "it will, in one facility in ten".

On the minimum pension, which since March 2026 stands at PLN 1,978.49 gross, the picture stays hard: it covers about 35 per cent of the average cost of a stay. We write separately about who pays the rest and what support is available in our guide to funding for a care home.

Voivodeships: where people pay the most

The sample is now large enough to show all 16 voivodeships instead of the three hand-assembled groups of the first edition. The most expensive is Zachodniopomorskie, averaging PLN 6,789, followed by Kujawsko-pomorskie at PLN 6,237 and Lubuskie at PLN 6,130. The cheapest are Podlaskie at PLN 4,855 and Świętokrzyskie at PLN 4,898.

Mazowieckie is the most interesting case. It has by far the largest sample, 117 facilities, and still comes third from the bottom with an average of PLN 5,283. The first edition pointed the same way on a sample of five facilities and we treated it then as possible chance. At 117 facilities it is no longer chance.

Nor is it an effect of Warsaw alone. Facilities with a Warsaw address average PLN 5,263, practically the same as the rest of the region at PLN 5,287. Mazowieckie is simply a dense and stratified market: alongside expensive residences outside the city there are many small, family-run homes here, in numbers the smaller voivodeships do not have.

One observation from the first edition has reversed, however. It suggested that prices were higher outside the big cities. On the full sample the opposite holds, though the difference is small: across the thirteen largest cities the average is PLN 5,946, and outside them PLN 5,613.

Do our figures match the market

We compared the results with independent sources to check whether our sample is out of line with the market. A Rankomat comparison updated on 1 April 2026, exactly at the start of the quarter studied, gives a range for private facilities of PLN 5,530 to PLN 8,360, depending on room type and region. Our average of PLN 5,665 sits inside that range, but right at its lower bound.

The likely explanation is that industry comparisons more often describe the offer in large cities and at facilities that advertise actively. Our sample, once the voivodes' register was pulled in, holds many small homes in smaller towns that such comparisons usually never reach.

Public social welfare homes look different. Figures set by local authorities show that a stay in a public home costs from PLN 5,870 to over PLN 30,000 a month, with the highest amounts applying to highly specialised facilities. A private care home is therefore not automatically more expensive than a public one, and at our current average of PLN 5,665 it is on average cheaper than even the lower bound of the public cost.

Methodology

The data comes from the Planeta Seniora listings database. Price lists were collected between 23 and 31 July 2026 and reflect rates in force during the second quarter of 2026, as facilities update their pricing less often than quarterly. Price means the monthly cost of a stay as declared by the facility.

Only active, commercial facilities with a price above PLN 1,000 entered the statistics. We excluded public social welfare homes and medical long-term care units, records that entered a daily rate in the monthly price field, and repeat entries for the same facility arriving from two sources, identified by identical coordinates. The final sample is 487 facilities out of 718 listings in the database. The rule for entering the sample is the same as in the first edition, so the two editions can be compared.

Limitations you should know about. The sample is unevenly distributed: Mazowieckie accounts for 117 facilities and Lubuskie for six, so the averages of the smallest voivodeships are uncertain. The share of listings with a published price differs between voivodeships, running from 57 to 83 per cent, which means that in each region we describe only the part of the market that publishes a price. The results describe prices at facilities present in our database, not the whole Polish market. The amounts given cover the stay itself and usually exclude medication, incontinence supplies and specialist rehabilitation.

Extreme values deserve a careful read. The cheapest entry, PLN 1,900, and a handful of others below PLN 3,000 are individual, data-poor records reconstructed from the voivodes' register. We did not remove them, having no grounds to call them errors, but they are six facilities out of 487 and should not be turned into a rule. A more robust measure than the minimum and maximum is the band holding eight facilities in ten: PLN 4,400 to PLN 7,000.

Further editions of the report are published quarterly as the database grows. The data may be cited with attribution: Planeta Seniora, Care Home Price Report, Q2 2026, edition of 31 July 2026.

What this means for your family

If you are planning a stay for a relative in a care home, a realistic starting point is around PLN 5,700 per month, of which an average pension will cover roughly four fifths. That leaves about PLN 1,200 to plan for, and part of that can be met from public support.

You will find a broader guide to what makes up the cost in our article on how much a care home costs in Poland. And if you are looking for a specific place, we will match facilities for you free of charge, tailored to your needs and budget.