ratings received for "Home", the episode placed fifth in its timeslot, with a rating of 1.7/3 percent. This means that it was seen by 1.7 percent of all households, and 3 percent of all those watching television at the time of broadcast. It gained higher ratings than The WB, who aired What I Like About You and Grounded for Life. Prior to broadcast, "Home" was listed as one of the programmes on Entertainment Weekly'''s "Tonight's Best TV" for October 22. In another preview, IGN Filmforce described the episode as a "yawner", and described the writers as "lazy" because of the trade off between character development and a general plot – the latter of which they said was absent in this episode. The review praised the additional attention given to Linda Park as Hoshi, saying that she is "possibly the most under-utilized actor on the show and shows the most potential." Overall it said that "the episode hints at promise for the rest of the season but is dull as dishwater on its own." Ryan Britt, while writing for Tor.com, thought more favourably of "Home", including it in a list of six episodes from Enterprise which are comparable to the best of the other Star Trek series. It was described as "the sort of episode that either rewards someone who liked the characters on this show, or could potentially get you to like them if you didn’t really know what was going on." Britt's only complaint was that the romance between T'Pol and Tucker wasn't further developed as it brought out the best in Blalock and Trinneer. In 2014, The A.V. Club gave this an honorable mention, in their list of recommended Enterprise television episodes. In 2016, The Hollywood Reporter interviewed various cast and production crew of the Star Trek franchise to determine the "100 Greatest Episodes" from across the five series, ranking Home as the 95th best episode of all Star Trek television (over 700 episodes), noting how it gave audiences insights into the characters, when they were not on the ship. In 2021, The Digital Fix said this was a real "kickoff" for season 4 and effectively helped set up the story for the later episode pair "Demons" and "Terra Prime". Home media release The first home media release of "Home" was in the season four DVD box set of Enterprise, originally released in the United States on November