This disclosure aims to provide a hose rubber composition capable of ensuring the flame retardance and simultaneously achieving both the tear resistance and the flexibility after vulcanization. The hose rubber composition of this disclosure comprises a rubber component and a carbon black, wherein: a chloroprene rubber is contained at an amount of 60 parts by mass or more in 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; the carbon black is compounded at an amount of more than 30 parts by mass and less than 80 parts by mass per 100 parts by mass of the rubber component; and the carbon black contains 13 mass % or more of a specific carbon black having an iodine adsorption of 100 to 160 mg/g and a DBP oil absorption of 70 to 180 mL/100 g.