The 6 Best In-Home Care Agencies in Wake Forest, NC

We ranked the top six in-home care agencies serving Wake Forest, NC. Every one holds an active North Carolina Home Care Agency license in the North Carolina Division of Health Service Regulation public roster dated October 6, 2026, and each has at least 10 public reviews. They are ordered by the Care Close to Home Score, which combines the rating (adjusted for how many reviews stand behind it), the number of reviews, and the license check. The other 22 licensed agencies serving Wake Forest, NC are not listed here.

In-home care means non-medical help that lets an older adult keep living at home: bathing and dressing, meals, housekeeping, errands, medication reminders and company. It is usually paid for privately, with long-term care insurance, a Medicaid program or VA benefits, not by Medicare. Compare at least three agencies, and ask each whether caregivers are employees, how they are screened, who supervises them, the minimum hours and the hourly rate.

In North Carolina, the median rate for in-home care is $30 an hour, about $2,600 a month for 20 hours a week (CareScout 2025).

The 28 agencies on this list are based in 2 ZIP codes; the busiest are 27587 (27 agencies) and 27609 (1 agency). If Wake Forest has too few choices for your needs, the closest other cities we list are Rolesville (5 agencies, about 4 miles away), Youngsville (9 agencies, about 5 miles away) and Franklinton (3 agencies, about 9 miles away).