The bed arithmetic runs backwards here
Across Los Angeles County as a whole, 81 percent of the licensed beds sit in facilities licensed for twenty five residents or more. In Granada Hills that figure is 22 percent. The 61 homes licensed for six residents or fewer held 360 of the 460 licensed beds here, and the 1 record licensed for twenty five or more held 100. The median record carries a licensed capacity of 6 and the biggest 100.
For a family that is either exactly right or exactly wrong, and it is worth knowing which before you start looking. If what you want is a quiet house, a small group, and caregivers who know your mother by name, this is a neighborhood full of them. If what you want is an apartment, a dining room, and a full activity calendar, the search needs to widen on the first day rather than the third week.
The reason the county has so few homes in the middle, between seven and twenty four residents, is regulatory and economic rather than accidental. Six is the point at which a license can be run out of an ordinary house with a small staff. Twenty five is the point at which a building can carry a commercial kitchen, an activity program, and shift staffing. In between, an operator has the costs of a business and the scale of a house.
One ZIP code, and a grid of ordinary houses
91344 covers Granada Hills north of Devonshire, on either side of Balboa Boulevard and running up toward the 118 and Knollwood, and the whole register sits inside it. Inside it the homes are scattered across the residential grid rather than clustered. This page does not name the streets they sit on, because the state publishes an address only at 25 licensed beds and above and almost nothing here is that size.
That scattering is the thing that makes the market invisible. A six bed home needs a large single family house with enough bedrooms, a level entrance, and a bathroom that can take a wider door. Granada Hills is full of exactly that housing stock, and the homes look like all the other houses on the street, because they are all the other houses on the street.
It also means a move inside the neighborhood is genuinely possible. Families often assume that changing homes means leaving the area their parent knows. In a neighborhood carrying 62 licenses inside one ZIP code, it usually does not.
- Ask who is in the house overnight, how many residents that person covers, and whether they are awake for the shift.
- Ask about language and food. In a six bed home a household cooks rather than a kitchen, so matching both is far easier here than in a large building.
- Ask whether the home can manage a two person transfer, and what it would do if your parent needed one next year.
- Ask to see the California license posted in the house, and read the inspection history on the state record before signing anything.
- Ask how many licenses the operator holds, and look each one up separately.
Where the search goes next, and who is discharging
The state groups this city into the 913 ZIP code area, where the file recorded 481 licensed records across 30 city names, and into the area covered by CDSS regional office 31, which is wider again: 626 records across 42 city names. Neither is a drive time. Both are simply the file's own way of saying that Granada Hills is not an island.
In the same file, Northridge carried 74 licensed records, North Hills 30, Sylmar 18, and Mission Hills 7. Each one is a separate register with its own page or its own place in the county file, and nothing on this page adds them together.
Providence Holy Cross Medical Center in Mission Hills and Northridge Hospital Medical Center on Roscoe Boulevard are the general hospitals closest to this part of the Valley, and a hospital discharge is one of the most common moments a family starts looking at all. If a case manager has given you a discharge date, call us with it. A parent who is stable in a hospital bed gives a family more room to choose well than a Friday afternoon does.
What the register cannot tell you
Licensed capacity is a ceiling the state set. It is not an occupancy figure, so no row on this page tells you whether a home has a bed free this month. Memory care is not a separate California license either, so the file cannot say which of these homes runs a secured setting or holds a dementia care waiver.
It also says nothing about quality, and neither do we on this page. A listing here is a public record. It is not a recommendation, an endorsement, an inspection result, or a sign that we have any relationship with the home. The state's own record carries the inspection history, and that is where to look.
What we do is the part the file cannot: calling homes to find who has an opening, who takes the care level your parent needs, and who speaks the language your mother will fall back on when her English goes. That costs your family nothing. A community pays us a referral fee when a family we introduced moves in, and you are free to contact any home on this list directly without us.
Keep reading
- Licensed care homes in Northridge, the state record
- Every city in Los Angeles County, and what the state file listed in each
- Board and care homes and RCFEs explained
- Board and care vs assisted living in Los Angeles
- How to check a California RCFE license yourself
- What an RCFE license lets a home do, and where it stops
- How assisted living placement works across Los Angeles
- Questions to ask on an assisted living tour
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- Licensed care homes in Van Nuys, the state record
Questions families ask us
- How many licensed care homes are there in Granada Hills?
- The state licensing file dated May 25, 2025 listed 62 residential care facilities for the elderly in Granada Hills, of which 61 were licensed for six residents or fewer and 1 for twenty five or more. That is fourth of the 119 city names the file uses across Los Angeles County, behind Northridge with 74 and ahead of Lancaster with 59. All 62 are named on this page.
- Why are there almost no large assisted living communities here?
- Because of how the supply is shaped. 61 of the 62 licensed records in Granada Hills were licensed for six residents or fewer, which is 98 percent, against 83 percent across Los Angeles County. The file recorded 1 record licensed for twenty five residents or more in the entire city. If what you want is an apartment style community with a dining room, the place to look first is Northridge, which the same file credits with 74 licensed records in total, 5 of them at twenty five residents or more.
- How much does a board and care home in Granada Hills cost?
- Commonly about $3,500 to $6,000 a month, usually quoted as one all in monthly rate rather than rent plus care fees. A shared room sits near the bottom of that band and a private room with heavy hands on care or dementia support near the top. A larger community runs about $4,500 to $8,000 a month and a secured memory care setting generally adds $1,000 to $2,000. These are typical Los Angeles market ranges rather than prices we set, and no figure here belongs to any home in the table.
- Where in Granada Hills are the licensed homes?
- All 62 of the licensed records carry a 91344 address, which is the whole of Granada Hills north of Devonshire on either side of Balboa Boulevard, running up toward the 118 and Knollwood. Within that they are scattered across the residential grid rather than clustered, which is what you would expect when the homes are houses and the neighborhood is houses. Very little of it is visible from the road, and almost none of it advertises.
- What is a six bed board and care home actually like?
- An ordinary house. A kitchen rather than a commercial dining room, a living room, bedrooms that are usually a mix of private and shared, and a garden. Caregivers cook, and help with bathing, dressing, medication reminders, and getting to the bathroom at three in the morning. What you gain is attention, because the staff are looking after a household rather than a floor. What you give up is a social calendar, an on site nurse, therapy in the building, and other residents to choose from.
- Is this a new market or an established one?
- Mostly recent. The oldest first license date in the Granada Hills file is May 1998 and the most recent is May 2025, and 44 of the 62 records carry a first license date of May 2020 or later. Read that carefully, though. A license belongs to the operator rather than to the building, so a recent date says a recent operator and nothing about the age or condition of the house.
- Should I look outside Granada Hills too?
- Usually worth it. In the same file, Northridge carried 74 licensed records, North Hills 30, Sylmar 18, and Mission Hills 7. Each of those is its own register rather than an extension of this one, so this page states no combined figure for them. Drawing a circle around whoever will actually be visiting finds a better home than holding to one city name.
- 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 here is a public record rather than a recommendation. You can contact any of these homes yourself without going through us.