No probably not? Joe can I ask are you using listing boxes on the home page and then you are saying you are getting those listing boxes to display by category on the home page? I ask as I do not see any option to define a category to a listing box to a category on the home page unless I am missing something ?
I will dig a bit deeper.
What I do know is I have country as an option in similar listings and it works perfect / not working as I can see if I add country to featured listings, also tried location filter in content boxes but that did not seem to make any difference here ? have you tried that?