Los Angeles Care Homes, Named From the State File

Houses and buildings, counted separately

Of the 143 records, 99 were licensed for six residents or fewer. In California those carry exactly the same residential care facility for the elderly license as a building licensed for hundreds. They are ordinary houses on ordinary streets, usually with a live in operator and a small caregiving staff.

The bed arithmetic runs the other way, and the file makes that plain. The 40 records licensed for twenty five or more hold 5,047 of the 5,651 licensed beds, while the six bed homes hold 538 between them. That is 89 percent of the beds in these records inside a large building, against 81 percent countywide. The median record in the file for this city was licensed for 6 residents, and the biggest for 299.

Small homes also have no marketing. Most have no website, no sign, and no listing anywhere a search engine reaches. That is a business model rather than a warning sign. A six bed home fills by word of mouth and by placement agencies and has no reason to rank for anything, which is why a family searching alone finds a handful of large communities and concludes that is the whole market.

• Same state license, very different daily life. Ask about the ratio of residents to caregivers at two in the morning, not at two in the afternoon.
• Small homes usually quote one all in monthly rate. Large communities usually quote base rent plus a care level fee set by an assessment, and that fee is the most common source of a surprise six months in.
• Language and food are far easier to match in a small home, because a household cooks rather than a kitchen.
• A secured memory care setting is normally a larger community, though some six bed homes hold a dementia care waiver. Ask about that specifically rather than assuming either way.

Why your neighborhood may not have a page of its own

Community Care Licensing records a facility under whatever city the address carries, and for most of Los Angeles that city is simply Los Angeles. Hollywood, Palms, Mar Vista, Westchester, West Adams, Eagle Rock, and Silver Lake all sit inside the 143 records on this page rather than in registers of their own.

A handful of areas the state does file separately, which is why Van Nuys, Northridge, Granada Hills, and San Pedro have registers of their own. Across the county the file spreads its licensed records over 119 city names in all, and the name Los Angeles is first of those 119 by the number of records, ahead of Torrance with 90.

The practical version of all this: use the ZIP column, not the city column. A daughter in Culver City and a father whose file entry says Los Angeles may be four minutes apart, and the register will not tell you that unless you read the ZIP.

Hospital discharge, and the map that actually matters

Most Los Angeles placements start with a discharge planner rather than with a search. Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Grove, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Keck Hospital of USC and LAC+USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset, and CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center between them account for a large share of the calls we take inside the city.

The thing worth knowing early is that the right home is usually near whoever will visit most, not near the hospital and not near the current house. A home twenty minutes from a daughter in Culver City gets visited three times a week. A home twenty minutes from an empty house in Sylmar gets visited on Sundays, then monthly. We normally redraw the map around the visitor before looking at a single address.

The second thing is timing. A discharge date creates urgency, and it also creates a window, and the window is the good part. It is far easier to choose well while a parent is stable in a hospital bed than on a Friday afternoon with that bed being cleared.

What the file records, and what it cannot

The oldest first license date among the records filed under this name is December 1976, and the most recent is May 2025. 53 of the 143 carry a first license date of May 2020 or later. A license belongs to the operator rather than to the building, so a recent date says the operator is recent, not that the house was built last year.

Licensed capacity is a ceiling the state set. It is not an occupancy figure and it says nothing about whether a bed is free this month. Nor does the file say who is awake overnight, which home takes a two person transfer, which one accepts hospice on site, or which caregiver speaks the language your mother will fall back on when her English goes.

That is the part we do, in person, and it costs your family nothing. We are a placement and referral agency rather than a care provider. We do not own, operate, manage, or inspect any facility on this page. A community pays us a referral fee when a family we introduced moves in, which is how the service stays free to you, and you are free to contact any home on this list directly without us.

Keep reading

• The guide: how to compare assisted living facilities in Los Angeles
• How placement works, from first call to move in day
• How to check a California RCFE license yourself
• What an RCFE license lets a home do, and where it stops
• Every city in Los Angeles County, and what the state file listed in each
• Board and care homes and RCFEs explained
• Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
• Memory care and dementia placement in Los Angeles
• Licensed care homes in Van Nuys, the state record
• Licensed care homes in Torrance, the state record

Questions families ask us

How many assisted living facilities are there in the city of Los Angeles?

The California Department of Social Services file dated May 25, 2025 listed 143 residential care facilities for the elderly under the city name Los Angeles, out of 1,648 across Los Angeles County. Read that as the file's own city field rather than as the whole City of Los Angeles, because the neighborhoods the file records under a name of their own, Van Nuys, Northridge, Chatsworth and the rest, are counted under those names instead. Of the 143, 99 were licensed for six residents or fewer, 4 in the seven to twenty four range, and 40 for twenty five or more. All 143 are named on this page. That describes the file on its date and nothing after it, so check the state record before relying on any entry.

Why is my neighborhood not listed on a page of its own?

Because Community Care Licensing files most Los Angeles neighborhoods under the city name. A home in Hollywood, Palms, Mar Vista, Westchester, West Adams, Eagle Rock, Silver Lake, or Rancho Park carries a facility city of Los Angeles in the state record, so it is on this page rather than on a page of its own. The ZIP code in each row is the quickest way to place a home on the map. Areas the file gives their own city value, such as Van Nuys, Northridge, Granada Hills, and San Pedro, do get separate pages.

Why is the six bed share lower here than across the county?

Because of where the beds are, not because the houses are missing. In the file, 99 of the 143 records filed under the name Los Angeles were licensed for six residents or fewer, which is 69 percent, against 83 percent across Los Angeles County. The same set carried 40 records licensed for twenty five or more, and those hold 5,047 of the 5,651 licensed beds on this page. So the city name carries a wide choice of large communities and 99 small homes sitting quietly underneath them.

How much does assisted living in Los Angeles cost?

A licensed six bed board and care home commonly runs about $3,500 to $6,000 a month, and a larger community about $4,500 to $8,000 a month, with a secured memory care setting generally adding $1,000 to $2,000. Senior living prices in Los Angeles broadly track local property costs, so Westside addresses generally run above South and East Los Angeles ones for the same level of care. That is general market context and not something the state file records, because the licensing file carries no price data at all. The ranges above are typical Los Angeles market ranges shaped by care level and room type. They are not prices we set or quote, and no figure here is attached to any home in the table.

How do I check a license myself?

Follow the license number in the last column of any row. It opens that facility's own record on the Department of Social Services care facility search, where the current license status, the licensed capacity, inspection reports, and any citations are published. Do it before you tour and again before you sign anything. The table here is a copy of a state file with a date on it. The state's own page is the live record.

Are you one of the facilities on this list?

No. Senior Placement Agency LA is a free placement and referral service for families. We do not own, operate, manage, or inspect any home on this page, and a listing here is a public record rather than a recommendation, an endorsement, or a sign of any relationship. You are welcome to contact any of these homes directly, without us.

How is this page different from your assisted living facilities page?

This page is the register. It names what the state recorded, with licensed capacity and a license number for each entry. Our assisted living facilities page is the guide: what an RCFE license actually covers, what to look at on a tour, what is bundled into a monthly rate, and how to narrow a short list down. Most families end up wanting both, usually the register first and the guide second.

My father is being discharged this week. Is that too fast?

No. That is the ordinary timeline and it is the one we work in most. Discharges inside the city reach us from Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Beverly Grove, Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center in Westwood, Keck Hospital of USC and LAC+USC Medical Center in Boyle Heights, Kaiser Permanente Los Angeles Medical Center on Sunset, and CHA Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. Tell us how your father transfers, whether there is confusion or wandering, what medications are involved, and the monthly budget, and we can usually have a short list the same day and tours within two or three.