One city, two completely different markets
The 6 larger communities in the file held 1,386 of the 1,554 licensed beds recorded in Woodland Hills, set down in the state data as 89 percent of them. The 28 six bed houses held 168. The biggest single license recorded here was for 436 beds. The median across every Woodland Hills record was 6.
Those numbers describe the same city and point in opposite directions, and which one is relevant depends entirely on your parent. A large community is an apartment with a dining room, a calendar and a nurse on the floor. A six bed home is somebody's house with a small staff and a handful of other residents in it. Which of those two your parent needs is the first thing to settle, and it is the one thing a brochure will not help you decide.
By count of licenses rather than beds, Woodland Hills sat eleventh of the 119 Los Angeles County cities with at least one licensed home. Counting only the six bed houses it sat fourteenth of the same 119. Both of those are positions in a long list, not a verdict on quality, and neither tells you whether the right home has a room free this month.
Where the homes are, ZIP code by ZIP code
27 of the 34 licenses sat in 91367, the flat grid north of Ventura Boulevard between Fallbrook and De Soto. The houses in it sit across the residential grid rather than on one street, and this page does not name those streets: below 25 licensed beds a home is a private residence and the address stays off the site. Several operators run more than one license within a few blocks, which matters more than it sounds: when a parent's needs change, a move can sometimes stay inside the same neighborhood and the same caregiver team.
The file put 5 in 91364, south of the boulevard on the slope toward Mulholland, and listed 1 of those at six residents or fewer, so a good part of the large community supply sits there rather than in the flat grid. Another 2 sat in 91303, technically over the line on the Canoga Park side.
Narrow to the six bed houses only and the map changes: of the 28, the file put 25 in 91367, 2 in 91303 and 1 in 91364. That is a separate count against a separate total, and it is worth keeping the two apart. The first tells you where the licensed homes are. The second tells you where the quiet houses are, which for most families is the more useful question.
Hospital discharges in the west Valley
Kaiser Permanente Woodland Hills Medical Center on De Soto Avenue is inside the city. West Hills Hospital and Medical Center and Providence Cedars-Sinai Tarzana Medical Center are both minutes away. Between them they are where most west Valley placements actually begin, and none of them will hand you a list of homes.
It tends to unfold the same way. Something acute happens, your parent stabilizes, and a case manager says that going home alone is no longer safe. That conversation arrives with a date attached and very little warning.
Use the days you have. Ask the hospital what help your parent will need at three in the morning rather than at three in the afternoon, because that answer is what decides between a large community and a six bed house. Then let us build the short list around the person who will be doing the visiting.
What the table cannot tell you
A list of licensed homes is a starting point, not an answer. The state file records a name, a capacity, a ZIP code and a license number. It is silent on everything that decides whether a home is right.
- Who is awake at three in the morning, and how many residents that person is responsible for.
- Whether the home will accept a two person transfer, a hoyer lift, or a resident who wanders at night.
- Which caregiver speaks the language your mother will fall back on when she is tired or frightened.
- Who has an opening this month, which changes weekly and appears in no public file.
- Whether a secured memory care setting is a licensed secured perimeter or simply a dementia friendly wing. Only one of those stops a resident leaving.
- What the home actually charges, which is set by an assessment of your parent and never by an address.
How far the search reasonably reaches
The 913 ZIP code area is where the file recorded 481 licensed homes across 30 places, Woodland Hills included. The largest of the others in the file were Northridge at 74, Granada Hills at 62 and Reseda at 36, which is 172 between them.
Closer to home and easier to drive, the same file recorded 33 licensed homes in West Hills and 20 in Tarzana. What any one home charges is set by an assessment of your parent rather than by the address, and no rate appears anywhere in the state file, so ask each of them and price a few miles of driving into the answer.
A second grouping in the state's own data, the area covered by CDSS regional office 29, reaches east instead, where the file recorded 212 licensed homes across 14 places, led by North Hollywood at 52 and Van Nuys at 51. That direction is worth knowing about, though for a family visiting after work in Woodland Hills it is usually the wrong side of the Valley.
Keep reading
- The advisory page: assisted living in Woodland Hills and how we help
- Licensed care homes in Sherman Oaks, the state list
- Assisted living in Encino and the Ventura Boulevard corridor
- 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 to choose an assisted living community in Los Angeles
- Senior living costs in Los Angeles and ways to pay
- Memory care and dementia placement in Los Angeles
Questions families ask us
- How many assisted living facilities are there in Woodland Hills?
- The state file dated May 25, 2025 listed 34 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in Woodland Hills. 28 of them were licensed for six residents or fewer and 6 for 25 or more. Every one is named in the table on this page, with its licensed capacity and its license number.
- Why do I keep finding the same few big buildings?
- Because they held nearly all the beds. The 6 larger communities accounted for 89 percent of the 1,554 licensed beds recorded in the city, while the 28 six bed houses came to 168 between them. Searching the way most families search, by driving Ventura Boulevard and looking for signage, finds most of the beds and very few of the licenses.
- Which ZIP codes have the licensed homes?
- Of the 34 licensed records, the file put 27 in 91367, 5 in 91364 and 2 in 91303. Narrowed to the six bed houses only, a different population with a different total of 28, the same file put 25 in 91367, 2 in 91303 and 1 in 91364. 91367 is the flat grid north of Ventura Boulevard. 91364 is the slope south of it toward Mulholland.
- What does a board and care home in Woodland Hills cost?
- Commonly about $3,500 to $6,000 a month, usually as one all in rate covering room, meals and personal care. 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. Prices across Los Angeles generally track local property costs, so San Fernando Valley addresses sit lower in these ranges than Westside ones do for the same level of care. These are typical Los Angeles market ranges rather than prices we set or quote, the state file records no rate at all, and no figure here belongs to any home in the table.
- Should I look outside Woodland Hills?
- Most west Valley families end up doing exactly that. Woodland Hills sits in the 913 ZIP code area, where the file recorded 481 licensed homes across 30 places. The largest of the others in the file were Northridge at 74, Granada Hills at 62 and Reseda at 36, which is 172 between them.
- Does a 1993 license date mean the building is that old?
- No. The oldest first license date in the Woodland Hills records is from 1993, and a first license date belongs to the licensee rather than to the address. A sale or a change of operating entity produces a new license and a new date. Read the column as this operator has held this license since, and not as a measure of how long the place has stood or how experienced anyone is.
- Is this list current?
- It reflects one state file, published on May 25, 2025, and nothing that happened afterward. Homes shut, change owner and have their licensed capacity revised. Verify the current status of any home with the California Department of Social Services before you rely on it. Each row carries the license number you need in order to do it.
- Do you own or inspect any of these homes?
- No. Senior Placement Agency LA is a free placement and referral service for families. We do not own, operate, manage or inspect any facility listed here, and a listing is a public record rather than a recommendation. You are free to contact any of them directly.