Why widening the radius is the whole strategy here
With a list this short, San Pedro is one of the few places where the honest advice on the first phone call is to look past the town. The state's own tight grouping makes the case without any guesswork: in the 907 ZIP code area that San Pedro belongs to, the file recorded 110 licensed homes across 9 cities.
Taking the other cities in that group in the file's own order, Carson, Cerritos, Harbor City and Lomita held 77 licensed homes between them. Harbor City, with 15, and Lomita, with 13, are the closest of them on the map. That turns a search with almost no options into one with real choice on staffing, price, language and availability.
The wider grouping goes further again. In the area covered by CDSS regional office 11, the file recorded 460 licensed homes across 26 places, and the member of it a harbor family commonly drives to is Torrance, which the same file credits with 90. Rancho Palos Verdes, with 33, keeps a family on the peninsula. Read the group as the outer edge of what exists rather than as a shortlist.
The visiting test still decides it. The right home is the one that gets visited three times a week, not the one closest to the old house. If the daughter who will be doing the visiting works in Torrance, a home in Torrance is very likely the better answer even though the family has lived on the hill for forty years.
2 buildings and a handful of houses
The two settings on this page are genuinely different products and it is worth separating them before you read the table. 2 of the 9 licenses were for 25 residents or more, the larger of the two for 202, and between them they hold 288 of the 330 licensed beds. The median capacity across every San Pedro record was 6, which tells you where the licenses are even though the beds sit elsewhere.
A larger community is apartment style: your own room or suite, a dining room, an activity calendar, staff on shifts, and other residents to make friends with. A six bed home is a house, with four to six residents, a household kitchen and two or three caregivers. The daily life is not a smaller version of the same thing, it is a different thing.
For most families the choice is settled by the overnight question rather than by the tour. Ask what your parent will need at three in the morning and how they transfer. A parent who needs a hand to get to the bathroom and gets confused in the dark usually does better in a house. A parent who is sociable and still walking usually does better in a building.
Hospital discharges in the harbor area
Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro on West 7th Street is in the town itself, and Harbor UCLA Medical Center in West Carson and Torrance Memorial Medical Center are the other two that most harbor area discharges come from.
Because local supply is thin, timing matters more here than in a deep market. A discharge planner who suggests looking in San Pedro is not wrong, but 9 homes can be full at once, and a family that only starts looking outward on the day of discharge has already lost the days it needed.
Ask the hospital what your parent will need overnight and how they transfer, then let us run San Pedro, Harbor City, Lomita, Carson and Torrance in parallel rather than one after another. That is usually the difference between a considered choice and whatever happens to have a bed on Friday.
How to use this page
- Read the table first and ignore the names you recognize. Recognition means advertising, not fit.
- Settle the question of scale before the question of address. A building and a house are different daily lives, and that choice narrows everything after it.
- Check anything that interests you against the state's own record, which the license number in each row links to. This page describes one file on one day.
- Treat licensed capacity as a ceiling the state set rather than as an occupancy figure. It says nothing about whether a room is free this month.
- Ask each home who is awake at three in the morning and how many residents that person is responsible for. No public file answers that, and every home will.
- Then call us with the harbor cities included from the start rather than added later, and we will tell you which of them has space and takes the level of care your parent needs.
Keep reading
- Licensed care homes in Carson, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Torrance, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Long Beach, 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
- Placement from a hospital discharge in Los Angeles
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- How to choose an assisted living community: a family checklist
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in San Pedro?
- The state file dated May 25, 2025 listed 9 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in San Pedro: 7 for six residents or fewer and 2 for 25 or more. All 9 are named on this page. That is a short list, which is why a San Pedro search usually has to take in the harbor cities as well.
- Why is the supply so thin here?
- San Pedro sits at the end of the peninsula, with the port on one side and the hill on the other, so there is less of it than there is of the flat South Bay grid to the north. A six bed license needs ordinary single family housing, and that is a general point about the map rather than anything the licensing file records. What the file does record is a young list: 7 of the 9 licenses carry a first issue date after May 2020.
- Where in San Pedro are the care homes on this list?
- 8 of the 9 carry a 90732 address, which is the hill above the harbor, and 1 carries a 90731 address down toward the waterfront. Narrowed to the six bed houses only, a population of 7 rather than 9, 7 of them are in 90732. That concentration is convenient for touring and inconvenient for choice.
- Where should I widen the search?
- Into the harbor cities, in order of distance. The file gave Harbor City 15 licensed homes, Lomita 13 and Carson 28. Altogether, in the 907 ZIP code area that San Pedro belongs to, the file recorded 110 licensed homes across 9 cities, and Torrance, just outside it, had 90 of its own.
- How much does assisted living in San Pedro cost?
- Expect about $3,500 to $6,000 a month in a six bed house and about $4,500 to $8,000 in one of the larger buildings, 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 a hillside address generally runs above a flat inland one for the same level of care, and the state file records no price of any kind. Those are market ranges for the area, not our prices, and none of them belongs to a home in the table.
- Which hospitals discharge into San Pedro?
- Providence Little Company of Mary Medical Center San Pedro on West 7th Street is in the town itself. Harbor UCLA Medical Center in West Carson and Torrance Memorial Medical Center are the other two that most harbor area discharges come from. If a case manager has given you a date, call us with it rather than after it, because with a list this short the widening conversation needs to start early.
- How current is this list?
- It sets out one state file, the one published on May 25, 2025, and nothing after it. A home can close, change hands or have its capacity revised inside a few weeks. Use the license number in the row to pull the current entry from the California Department of Social Services before you count on anything here.
- 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.