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I don't recall anything indicating Home is any different, insofar as blocking via the metered connection choice anyway - Microsoft don't make any distinction in their instructions for setting metered connections. But I cannot comment from experience.
The following, all of which are reliable in my experience (which excludes Home), may be of interest to some:
Setting the internet connection to metered stops all Windows updates apart for "critical" ones but all through the life of Windows 10 (and 8 if I recall correctly) I've never seen an update let through. Originally non WiFi connections could only be set as metered in the registry but for a long time now that has been relaxed to be a user choice in Settings including ethernet. Microsoft say that some applications may not work properly if metered connections are blocked to Windows but I have not come across any - MSOffice Outlook though, if connection is set as metered, asks permission to proceed with other than headers.
If I recall correctly there is or was a maximum limit on the time automatic downloads were blocked for on metered connections (I seem to recall 28 days????) but I have seen no reference to that for a very long time and I have certainly gone for around 4 weeks many times with them staying blocked while I've been travelling.
Quite recently one now has another choice in Settings of stopping Windows installing updates regardless for up to 35 days. And for those who I see periodically still complaining about Windows unexpectedly updating there are also a variety of Settings allowing the user to delay installation of different types of updates and control over when restarts occur.
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