What a six bed home in Chatsworth actually looks like
It is a single family house on a residential street, usually a single story ranch, with four to six residents, a live in or shift operator and two or three caregivers. It carried exactly the same residential care facility for the elderly license that the 268 bed community in the table carried. There is no sign, usually no website, and often no phone listing under the licensed name.
The daily rhythm is a household rhythm. Meals are cooked in the kitchen rather than served out of a commercial one. Residents are usually in the shared living room rather than in their own apartments. The number of people one caregiver is responsible for at three in the morning is typically far lower than in any large building, and that is the single most important number for a parent who gets up in the night.
The trade off is real and nobody should talk you out of noticing it. There is no activity calendar, no dining room, no physical therapist on site, no transport and no wider circle of residents beyond the four or five in the house. A sociable, mobile parent is often unhappy in that setting and much happier in a community. A frail or easily confused parent is usually the reverse.
- Ask how many residents one caregiver covers overnight, and whether that person is awake or sleeping.
- Ask who cooks, and whether they can cook the food your mother actually eats.
- Ask whether the home holds a dementia care waiver, if wandering or confusion is part of the picture.
- Ask how many other homes the operator runs, and check the state record for each one rather than only this address.
- Ask what happens if your mother later needs a two person transfer or hospice, and whether that would mean moving again.
One grid of streets, and why that matters
Almost every licensed home in this city sits in the same postal area: 25 of the 25 records carry a 91311 address, and 24 of the 24 six bed houses do. In a county where a city's supply is usually scattered across four or five ZIP codes, that concentration changes how a search works.
It means you can compare properly. Seeing three houses in one morning, at the same time of day, with the same questions, tells you far more than seeing three across three weeks in three parts of the Valley. You start to notice the things that actually differ: how the place smells, whether residents are up and dressed, whether the caregiver knows what each person had for breakfast.
It also means the whole city can be full at once. A cluster is a convenience when there is space and a problem when there is not, which is the main reason the next section is about where a Chatsworth search widens to.
Where a Chatsworth search widens
The state's own tight grouping is useful here. Chatsworth sits inside the 913 ZIP code area, where the file recorded 481 licensed homes across 30 places, and it is essentially the San Fernando Valley plus the Santa Clarita Valley. Taking its members in the file's own order, Northridge, Granada Hills and Reseda between them accounted for 172 homes the file listed as licensed.
The two a Chatsworth family really drives to are Northridge, which the file credits with 74 licensed homes, and Granada Hills with 62. Both are minutes east and both have their own page here. West Hills, with 33, and Woodland Hills, with 34, are south of it and worth putting on the list once the search widens.
The wider grouping is the area covered by CDSS regional office 31, where the file recorded 626 licensed homes across 42 places, but it reaches out to Lancaster and Palmdale in the Antelope Valley. Read it as the outer edge of what exists rather than as a shortlist, because the Antelope Valley is not a drive a daughter makes three times a week.
There is no hospital in Chatsworth. Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Roscoe Boulevard, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, and Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills are the three general hospitals nearest to it, and a hospital discharge is one of the most common moments a family starts looking at all. A discharge planner works from the list in front of them, so it is worth asking about homes further out than the ones first suggested.
Reading the license dates on this page
The oldest first license date in the Chatsworth records is from 1992 and the newest is from 2024. Between them, 17 of the 25 were first issued after May 2015 and 14 after May 2020. Both cutoffs count back from the file date rather than from today.
That column is not a measure of experience. A license belongs to the licensee, not to the address, so when a home is sold or the operating entity changes a new license is issued and the date resets. A house that has taken residents for fifteen years can show a date from last year, and the reverse happens too.
Read it as this operator has held this license since, then ask the administrator how long they have run homes, how many they run now, and what changed when they took this one on. In a young market that question is worth more than the date itself, and how it gets answered tells you a great deal.
What this list cannot tell you
A register is a starting point rather than an answer, and it is worth being precise about where it stops.
- Licensed capacity is a ceiling the state set, not an occupancy figure. It says nothing about whether anything is free this month.
- Memory care is not a separate California license. A secured dementia setting sits inside one of these same records, so the file cannot show which homes run one.
- The file carries no rates, so no price on this page belongs to any home in the table above and none should be read that way.
- Nothing here is an inspection result, a complaint history or a quality judgment. We do not inspect these homes and we do not rate them.
- In a market of houses with no signs, knowing which one has an opening, takes the care level your mother needs and is genuinely well run is the part a table cannot do. That is the part we do, in person, and it costs your family nothing.
Keep reading
- Licensed care homes in Northridge, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Granada Hills, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Woodland Hills, the state list
- Every city in Los Angeles County, and what the state file listed in each
- Board and care homes and RCFEs explained
- Board and care compared with assisted living
- How to check a California RCFE license yourself
- What an RCFE license lets a home do, and where it stops
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- Memory care and dementia placement in Los Angeles
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in Chatsworth?
- The state file dated May 25, 2025 listed 25 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in Chatsworth. 24 were listed for six residents or fewer and 1 for 25 or more. All 25 are named on this page, and 25 of the 25 carry a 91311 address. Check the current state record before relying on any entry.
- How many large communities did the state file record in Chatsworth?
- The file listed 1 facility in Chatsworth at 25 residents or more, and the largest license it recorded in the city was for 268 residents. Everything else here was listed as a house. If your parent specifically wants a large building with a dining room and an activity calendar, that search will mostly happen in the cities around Chatsworth rather than inside it.
- What does a market this weighted toward six bed homes mean for my search?
- The file put 24 of the 25 licensed homes here in the six bed band, 96 percent, against 83 percent across Los Angeles County. It means the search feels empty online and is actually deep. Houses have no signs and usually no websites, so a family finds one building and assumes that is the market. The file put 24 of the 24 six bed records inside one postal area, which makes touring several in an afternoon genuinely practical.
- Why are so many Chatsworth homes recently licensed?
- 14 of the 25 carry a first license date after May 2020 and 17 after May 2015. That is a growing small home market rather than a settled one. A recent license is not a warning sign in itself, and some will belong to experienced operators opening a second or third house. It does mean there is less inspection history to read, so ask how long the operator has been running homes rather than how long this address has been open.
- How much does assisted living in Chatsworth cost?
- Six bed homes here commonly run about $3,500 to $6,000 a month. A larger assisted living community generally runs about $4,500 to $8,000 a month, and a secured memory care setting generally adds $1,000 to $2,000 on top. Senior living prices in Los Angeles generally track local property costs, so the same level of care can sit at different points in those bands depending on the address. They are typical market ranges, not prices we set, and none of them is attached to a home in the table.
- Which hospitals discharge into Chatsworth?
- There is no hospital in Chatsworth itself. Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Roscoe Boulevard, West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, and Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills are the three general hospitals nearest to it. All three are a short drive from the Chatsworth grid, which is worth knowing when a case manager gives you a date.
- How current is this list?
- It sets out one state file, the one published on May 25, 2025, and nothing after it. Licenses lapse, change hands and get their capacity revised, sometimes within a few weeks. Take the license number from the row and check the current entry with the California Department of Social Services before you rely on it.
- Are you one of the homes listed here?
- No. Senior Placement Agency LA is a free placement and referral service for families. We do not own, operate, manage or inspect any facility on this page, and a listing is a public record rather than a recommendation or an endorsement. You are welcome to contact any of these homes directly, without us.