The homes are not where the name points
Say North Hollywood and most people picture the Arts District around Lankershim and Magnolia. The licensed homes are almost entirely somewhere else. Across all 52 records the file put 34 in 91605 and 16 in 91606, the residential grid north of the 170 around Sherman Way, Vanowen and Victory, out toward the Sun Valley and Van Nuys lines.
South of the freeway the record thins right out: 1 in 91601 and 1 in 91607. Those are the addresses a driver down Lankershim or Magnolia would actually pass, and they are not where the supply is.
The rest are ordinary houses further north, on streets most Angelenos have never driven down. They carry no signage, they do not advertise, and several sit on the same block as each other without any of them looking like anything at all. That is the point of a six bed home, and it is also why this list is worth having.
The houses hold the beds here
Across Los Angeles County, 83 percent of the homes in the state file were licensed for six residents or fewer. In North Hollywood the figure was 96 percent. A license count can look like that anywhere. A bed count does not have to follow, because one large building can hold as many people as a whole street of houses.
Here it follows. The six bed homes held 295 of the 444 licensed beds in the city, and the 2 larger communities held 149 between them. The largest single license in the file here was for 100 beds, and the median across all the North Hollywood records was 6.
Narrowed to the six bed houses on their own, which is a separate population with a separate total of 50, the file put 34 in 91605 and 16 in 91606. Keep that count and the count of all the records apart, because they answer different questions.
For a family the practical effect is choice. 50 licensed houses across 2 ZIP codes means real options on price, on room type, on whether a home will take a two person transfer, and on whether the caregivers speak your parent's first language. It also means the list is unmanageable without help, which is what we are for.
Read the license date as a record, not as experience
- The file shows 34 of the 52 North Hollywood licenses first issued in the five years before it was published, and 50 in the ten years before it.
- The oldest first license date in the city's records is from 2000. The newest is from 2025, the same year the state published the file.
- A license belongs to whoever holds it, not to the house. Sell the home, or change the operating entity behind it, and a fresh license is issued with a fresh date.
- So read that column as this operator has held this license since, never as this house opened then. An old date is not tenure, and a recent one is not inexperience.
- A license issued in the months before this file was published is the kind of record most likely to have changed since. Open the state's own record, which the license number in the table links to, before you rely on anything on this page.
Where the search goes when it widens
The tight version of the neighborhood is the 916 ZIP code area, which includes this one: the file recorded 66 licensed homes across 4 places. Alongside North Hollywood the file listed Valley Village at 10, Studio City at 2 and Toluca Lake at 2, which is 14 between them.
The wider version is the area covered by CDSS regional office 29, where the file recorded 212 licensed homes across 14 places. The biggest of the others were Van Nuys at 51, Woodland Hills at 34 and Sherman Oaks at 19, 104 between them. That is a real answer to the question of what happens when nothing in North Hollywood has an opening this month.
Van Nuys is the one to search alongside this page rather than after it. The 91605 and 91606 streets run straight into it, so a house two blocks over the line is filed under a different city name and is otherwise the same house on the same kind of street.
Valley Presbyterian Hospital in Van Nuys and Providence Saint Joseph Medical Center in Burbank are the two acute hospitals nearest this part of the Valley, and a hospital discharge is the most common way a search like this one starts. If a case manager has given you a discharge date, call us with it rather than after it. The days before a discharge are the best time to choose, not the worst.
Keep reading
- How assisted living placement works across Los Angeles
- Licensed care homes in Burbank, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Sherman Oaks, 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
- Board and care vs assisted living in Los Angeles
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- Hospital discharge and senior placement in Los Angeles
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in North Hollywood?
- The state licensing file dated May 25, 2025 listed 52 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in North Hollywood, of which 50 were licensed for six residents or fewer and 2 for 25 or more. That places the city sixth of the 119 Los Angeles County cities with at least one licensed home. All 52 are named on this page with their licensed capacity and license number.
- Why can I not find anything near the NoHo Arts District?
- Because the licensed homes are not there. Counting every record, the file put 34 in ZIP code 91605 and 16 in 91606, out of 52 in all, which is the residential grid north of the 170 around Sherman Way, Vanowen and Victory. South of that the record thins right out: 1 in 91601 and 1 in 91607. A family that starts by driving the part of North Hollywood it knows is looking at a very short list.
- How much does a board and care home in North Hollywood cost?
- Usually somewhere around $3,500 to $6,000 a month, and normally as a single all in rate rather than rent with care fees layered on top. These are typical Los Angeles market ranges rather than prices we set or quote, and no figure here belongs to any home in the table. Ask every home you tour for its own rate in writing.
- Is North Hollywood mostly small homes or large communities?
- Small homes, and the bed count says the same thing. Across Los Angeles County 83 percent of the homes in the file were licensed for six residents or fewer. In North Hollywood it was 96 percent. The six bed houses held 295 of the city's 444 licensed beds and the 2 larger communities held 149.
- Should I search Van Nuys and the rest of the east Valley too?
- Yes, and the file makes the case for it. Van Nuys alone carried 51 licensed homes. In the area covered by CDSS regional office 29, which includes this one, the file recorded 212 licensed homes across 14 places. Streets in 91605 and 91606 run straight into Van Nuys, so a house two blocks over the line is filed under a different city and is otherwise the same house.
- How current is this list?
- It describes one file, published by the state on May 25, 2025, and nothing after it. Homes shut, change hands, and change licensed capacity. The newest first license date in the North Hollywood records is from 2025 and the oldest from 2000. Check the current status of any home directly with the California Department of Social Services before you rely on it.
- Is Senior Placement Agency LA one of these homes?
- No. We are a free placement and referral service for families and not a care provider. Nothing on this page is owned, run, managed or inspected by us. Each row is a public record of what the state had on file, not a recommendation, and you are welcome to call any of these homes without involving us at all.