Search every one of these names, or the valley looks half empty
This is the single most useful thing to know about looking for care up here, and no national directory says it. A family that searches for Santa Clarita and stops there sees 18 homes. The same file holds a separate record of 28 homes under Valencia, which is a neighborhood of Santa Clarita and always has been since the city was formed.
The others work the same way, and the file keeps a separate record of each: 11 under Saugus, 4 under Newhall, 2 under Stevenson Ranch and 1 under Canyon Country. None of those is a different town. They are the neighborhoods a Santa Clarita family already drives through on a normal Tuesday.
The table below is what this page can name accurately, because it is what the state files under the city name. The rest are just as real and just as close, and each one is linked in the neighboring cities list so you can see its own count. If you are searching this valley, search every one of them, or ask us and we will do it in one pass.
2 buildings, a spread of houses, and one hospital
The 2 larger communities filed under the city name are Atria Santa Clarita on Lyons Ave and Oakmont of Santa Clarita on Newhall Ranch Road. The larger of the two was licensed for 160 residents. Those 2 buildings carry 281 of the 377 licensed beds in this record, while the 16 houses hold 96. The median capacity across every Santa Clarita record was 6.
Narrowed to the six bed houses alone, a separate population of 16, the file put 6 in 91350, 3 in 91351, 3 in 91354, 2 in 91355, 1 in 91321 and 1 in 91387. That is a genuinely different shape from the all records list, and worth keeping apart from it.
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital on McBean Parkway is the only acute hospital in the valley, and almost every placement here that starts in a hospital starts there. That is unusually simple compared with the rest of the county, where a family is often working with planners at three or four different hospitals depending on where the fall happened.
The practical consequence is that the discharge conversation is a single conversation. Ask the planner at Henry Mayo what your parent will need overnight and how they transfer, and take that answer to every home you tour rather than deciding on the strength of a walk through a nice lobby.
A young record, and how to read a date on it
The oldest first license date anywhere in the Santa Clarita records is from 2012 and the newest is from 2024. 15 of the 18 were first issued after May 2015, a cutoff counted back from the file date rather than from today. The oldest first license date anywhere in the county file is from 1971, so by county standards this is a young licensing history.
Read that as market context rather than as a verdict on any home. The valley was built out late by Los Angeles County standards, so a house here is more likely than one in an older neighborhood to have wide doorways and few steps at the front. That is a general point about when the streets went in, not something the licensing file records, so check it on the tour rather than assuming it.
And the operators tend to be newer to running a home. That is not a criticism, but it is a question. A license belongs to the licensee rather than to the address, so the date tells you when this operator took this license and nothing about the building's history. Ask how many homes they run, how long they have run them, and what changed when they took this one on.
Senior living in the valley, and what this list leaves out
Senior living is the wider word and it covers things this file does not. Independent living is housing rather than licensed care and appears nowhere in the licensing record at all. If a valley building calls itself senior living and is not in the table above or under one of the other five names, it is very likely independent living, and the practical difference is whether anyone on site is licensed to help your mother shower.
Memory care is not a separate California license either. A secured dementia setting sits inside one of these same residential care facility records, so the file cannot tell you which homes run one. Both of the larger communities are big enough to have a dedicated area. Some six bed homes take residents living with dementia without being a secured building, which is sometimes the better answer for the middle stages and sometimes not safe at all.
What the file also cannot tell you is who has a room open. Licensed capacity is a ceiling the state set, not an occupancy figure, and in a valley whose supply is split across several city names, availability is often the binding constraint. That is the question we can answer quickly, because we call them.
Keep reading
- Licensed care homes in Granada Hills, the state list
- Licensed care homes in Northridge, 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
- How assisted living placement works across Los Angeles
- Board and care compared with assisted living
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- VA Aid and Attendance for California families
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in Santa Clarita?
- It depends whether you mean the city or the city name. The state file dated May 25, 2025 listed 18 residential care facilities for the elderly under the name Santa Clarita, and those 18 are the ones named on this page. The same file separately records 28 under Valencia, 11 under Saugus, 4 under Newhall, 2 under Stevenson Ranch and 1 under Canyon Country, all of which are neighborhoods of the same city.
- Why does the state list Valencia and Saugus separately?
- Because the file records whichever city name was written on the license application, and Santa Clarita only became one city in 1987 by joining Newhall, Saugus, Canyon Country and Valencia. The post office kept the old names and so did many licensees. Nothing is wrong with the data. It simply answers a postal question rather than a municipal one, which is why a search for this valley has to be run under every one of them.
- Where in Santa Clarita are the care homes on this list?
- Spread rather than clustered. Across all 18 records the file put 6 in 91350, 3 in 91351, 3 in 91354, 3 in 91355, 2 in 91321 and 1 in 91387. In a valley this wide that spread matters, because the difference in drive time is a real one for a daughter visiting after work.
- Why are the Santa Clarita license dates so recent?
- The oldest first license date anywhere in the Santa Clarita records is from 2012, which is unusual, and the newest is from 2024. 15 of the 18 were first issued after May 2015. A license belongs to the licensee rather than to the address, so a young record here says the operators are new to these licenses and says nothing at all about how old the houses are. That is a fair thing to ask about directly: how many homes they run, how long they have run them, and what changed when they took this one on.
- How much does assisted living in Santa Clarita cost?
- Board and care in the valley commonly runs about $3,500 to $6,000 a month, the larger communities about $4,500 to $8,000, and a secured memory care setting generally adds $1,000 to $2,000 to either. Senior living prices generally track local property costs, so the newer parts of the valley tend to sit above the older ones inside those ranges. The state file records no price of any kind, so read that as market context. These are ranges for the market, not quotes from us, and none is tied to a home in the table.
- Which hospital discharges into Santa Clarita?
- Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital on McBean Parkway is the only acute hospital in the valley, so almost every Santa Clarita placement that begins in a hospital begins there. That makes the timeline simpler than in most of the county, where a family is often choosing between three or four discharge routes. If a case manager has given you a date, call us with it rather than after it.
- How current is this list?
- This page is one snapshot, the state file published on May 25, 2025, and nothing after it. Homes here open and change hands quickly, and a licensed capacity can be revised without any public notice. Look the license number up with the California Department of Social Services and read the live entry before relying on a row.
- 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 can contact any of these homes yourself without going through us.