"Home" has continued to receive positive reviews. In a 2011 review, Emily VanDerWerff of "The A.V. Club" gave the episode an "A" rating and wrote that, it would be difficult to write an episode like "Home" today as small towns are no longer as isolated as they used to be thanks to modern communications technology. She praised the depiction of urban sensibilities and the frightening Peacock family, observing that it represented a "sad farewell to a weird America that was rapidly smoothing itself out." Author Dean A. Kowalski, in "The Philosophy of The X-Files", cited "Home", "Squeeze", and "The Host" as the most notable "monster-of-the-week" episodes.