A list you can read in one sitting
By the plain count of licensed homes, Burbank sat twentieth of the 119 Los Angeles County cities with at least one in the file. A rank is a position in a long list and nothing more. The number that actually shapes a family's month is the absolute one: 27 homes, 5 of them large enough to be what most people picture when they say assisted living.
The bed count sharpens it. Those 5 communities held 589 of the 732 licensed beds recorded in the city, set down in the data as 80 percent, while the 21 houses held 126 and the middle band held 17. The largest single license here was for 160 beds. The median across all Burbank records was 6.
What that adds up to in practice is simple. In any given month only some of these will have an opening, and the ones that do may not be the ones that suit your parent. That is not a reason to be discouraged. It is a reason to start with a short drive rather than a city name, which is exactly what a family working down Olive Avenue will not do.
North of the airport is where the houses are
Narrowed to the six bed homes only, a separate population of 21, the file put 10 in 91504 in the north of the city above the airport, 5 in 91506 on the southwest side toward the Toluca Lake line, 4 in 91505 around Magnolia Park and the studios, and 2 in 91501 on the east side below the Verdugo hills.
Counting every licensed home rather than the houses alone gives a different list and a different total: 12 in 91504, 7 in 91505, 5 in 91506 and 3 in 91501, adding to 27. The two lists answer different questions and are worth keeping apart.
The practical value of the northern cluster is that several homes sit within a few blocks of one another. You can see three in a morning, at the same time of day, and compare them properly rather than from memory a week apart. Even when none of them is right, that morning teaches you what to look for everywhere else.
Every license in the file here is a recent one
The oldest first license date anywhere in the Burbank records is from 2004. The newest is from 2025, shortly before the state published the file. In between, 18 of the 27 were first issued within ten years of publication and 7 within five.
None of that is a measure of experience, and it is worth being blunt about why. The license is attached to whoever holds it and not to the building. Sell the home, or change the operating entity behind it, and the state issues a new license with a new date. A house that has taken residents for decades can show a date from last year.
So take the column to mean this licensee has held this license since, and then put the question to the administrator in person: how long have you run this home, and what changed when you took it on. The answer to that tells you something no licensing file ever will.
Where a Burbank search actually goes
The 915 ZIP code area holds 1 city name in this file and it is Burbank, so the state's tight geographic grouping has little to add here. The one grouping that does carry a total is the area covered by CDSS regional office 31, where the file recorded 626 licensed homes across 42 places. Its largest members were Northridge at 74, Granada Hills at 62 and Lancaster at 59, 195 between them.
That grouping reaches from the west Valley out to the Antelope Valley, so treat it as the outer limit of what exists rather than as a shortlist. The member of it a Burbank family would really drive to is Glendale, east along the 134, which the same file credits with 30 licensed homes, and it has its own page on this site.
The direction a Burbank search usually widens in is west. North Hollywood begins a few minutes past Magnolia Park, and the same file credits it with 50 houses licensed for six residents or fewer against Burbank's 21. On price the file says nothing at all, but senior living prices in Los Angeles generally track local property costs, so two addresses either side of that city line can sit at different points in the same band for the same level of care. Price both. Sun Valley, Toluca Lake and Valley Village fill in around that.
Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center on Buena Vista Street is the hospital inside the city, and a hospital discharge is one of the most common moments a family starts looking at all. It sits close enough to the Toluca Lake and North Hollywood lines that a discharge conversation there can reasonably cover homes in three cities at once, which is a fair reflection of how this market works.
How to use this page
- Read the table first and ignore the names you recognize. Recognition here means advertising budget, not fit.
- Sort the question by scale before you sort it by address. A large community and a six bed house are different daily lives, and that choice narrows everything else.
- Check any home that interests you against the state's own record, which the license number in each row links to. Everything here is one file on one day.
- Ask each home what happens at three in the morning, who is awake, and how many residents that person is responsible for. Nothing in a public file answers that.
- Ask about openings last, not first. A home with a room free today may not be the one your parent should move into, and a waiting list of two weeks is not long.
- Then call us. We will tell you which of these have space and which will take the level of care your parent needs, at no cost to your family.
Keep reading
- The advisory page: assisted living in Burbank and how we help
- Licensed care homes in North Hollywood, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Glendale, the state list
- Every city in Los Angeles County, and what the state file listed in each
- Board and care homes and RCFEs explained
- How to check a California RCFE license yourself
- What an RCFE license lets a home do, and where it stops
- Hospital discharge and senior placement in Los Angeles
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- What a senior placement agency costs a family
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in Burbank?
- The state file dated May 25, 2025 listed 27 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in Burbank: 21 licensed for six residents or fewer, 1 in the middle band of seven to 24, and 5 for 25 or more. All 27 are named on this page with capacity and license number.
- Is that a lot of choice for a city this size?
- It puts Burbank twentieth of the 119 Los Angeles County cities with at least one home in the file, behind Valencia with 28 and ahead of Chatsworth with 25. The number that matters more to a family is the absolute one. With 5 larger communities in the city, a month in which none of them has the right room free is entirely possible, and the search widens.
- Where in Burbank are the licensed homes?
- Across all 27 records the file listed 12 in 91504, 7 in 91505, 5 in 91506 and 3 in 91501. Narrowed to the six bed houses alone, a separate population totaling 21, it listed 10 in 91504 in the north of the city above the airport, 5 in 91506 on the southwest side toward the Toluca Lake line, 4 in 91505 around Magnolia Park and the studios, and 2 in 91501 on the east side below the Verdugo hills.
- What does a board and care home in Burbank cost?
- Usually somewhere near $3,500 to $6,000 a month, and normally quoted as a single monthly figure that already includes the room, the meals and the personal care. Those are typical ranges for the Los Angeles market. We do not set them or quote them, and none of them is attached to a home in the table above.
- Why are all the Burbank license dates so recent?
- The oldest first license date anywhere in the Burbank records is from 2004, and the newest is from 2025. The file shows 18 of the 27 carrying a first license date inside ten years of publication and 7 within five. Remember that a license belongs to the licensee and not to the address, so a recent date can mean a change of operator rather than a new home.
- Should I be looking outside Burbank?
- Almost certainly, and starting there rather than ending there. North Hollywood begins just west of Magnolia Park, and the same state file credits it with 50 six bed houses of its own. Glendale is east along the 134, where the same file recorded 9 homes licensed for 25 residents or more against Burbank's 5. Sun Valley, Toluca Lake and Valley Village fill in around those. We would rather show you a home three minutes past the city line than a Burbank address that does not fit.
- How current is this list?
- It sets out one state file, the one published on May 25, 2025, and nothing that came after it. Homes shut, change operator and have their capacity revised, sometimes inside weeks. Verify the current status of any home with the California Department of Social Services before relying on it. Use the license number in the row to look it up.
- Are you affiliated with any of these homes?
- No. Senior Placement Agency LA is a free placement and referral service for families. We do not own, run, manage or inspect anything listed here. A listing is a public record and not a recommendation, and you can contact any of these homes yourself.