"Home" has often been cited as one of the best "X-Files" episodes. VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" placed it among the 10 best chapters of the series and called it one of the scariest hours of television she had seen. In 2009, "The Vancouver Sun" named "Home" one of the best stand-alone episodes of the series and wrote that, because of its horrific theme of incest, the episode "doesn't pull any punches". Den of Geek writer Nina Sordi placed the entry as the fourth best of the series in 2009, viewing its bleak humor and "thought-provoking moments" of dialogue as the factors that made it one of the most popular episodes. In 2008, "Starpulse" gave the installment an honorable mention as one of the 10 best "X-Files" episodes. In 2009, Connie Ogle from PopMatters rated the Peacock family among the greatest monsters of the series and stated that it was a miracle that the program "slipped past" the censors.