How many licensed care homes are there in Los Angeles County?

The California licensing file dated May 25, 2025 listed 1,648 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in Los Angeles County, across 119 city and neighborhood names, with 43,390 licensed beds between them. That is what the state recorded on that date rather than what is open today. Licenses lapse, change hands and get suspended, and new homes open, so treat the figure as the size of the market and check any individual home against the state's live record.

Are most of these places big communities or small houses?

Houses, by a long way, if you count front doors. The median licensed capacity across the whole county was 6, so the middle of this market is a six bed house. Count beds instead and it inverts: 81 percent of the county's 43,390 licensed beds sat in the 253 homes licensed for 25 beds or more. Both are true at once.

Why can I not find the small homes online?

Because almost none of them market. A six bed home has no marketing budget, often no website, sometimes not even a sign, and it fills by word of mouth and by referral. The buildings advertise, so a search that starts on Google returns the buildings and gives no hint that the rest of the register exists. That gap is not a quality signal in either direction. It is a difference in business model.

Does a home on this page have a room available?

There is no way to tell from the licensing record, because it holds capacity and not vacancy. Licensed capacity is the most residents the building is allowed to hold, which is a ceiling rather than an opening. A home licensed for six with six residents in it is full and still appears exactly the same way in the file. Availability is a phone call, and it changes week to week.

Is this the state's official list?

No. It is the state's file, filtered to Los Angeles County and to records the file marked as licensed, then counted. It is dated, it is not government data, and we are not affiliated with the State of California or the Department of Social Services. The official record is the state's own facility search, which is live and which you should treat as the authority whenever it disagrees with anything here.

Do the homes on these pages pay you?

Families pay us nothing. A community pays us a referral fee when a family we introduced moves in. What we will not do is put a figure in a paragraph for how much of this register we hold agreements with, because that is a question to ask about the specific homes in front of you rather than about a county. Ask us about your shortlist and we will answer it home by home.

Residential Care Homes in Los Angeles County, by City

How much choice is there really?

More than anyone is going to show you, us included. Every one of those 1,648 homes was recorded under the same California license, an RCFE, the bungalow with a ramp on the front step and the purpose built community with a courtyard alike. If that is a new word on your paperwork, read what an RCFE license is, and what it allows a home to do before you tour anywhere. What the file will not do is sort any of it for you.

That is not comfort on its own, and it should not be sold as any. Most of those homes will be wrong for your father. Plenty will be full. A fair number sit at the far end of a county that takes most of an afternoon to cross when the freeways turn against you. What the number changes is the meaning of the sentence families hear most often, which is that there is nothing available. Usually what is true is that there is nothing available on the page in front of the person saying it.

Why most of these homes are houses

Two things are true at once here, and they pull in opposite directions.

83 percent of the homes were licensed for six beds or fewer. And 81 percent of the county's licensed beds sat in the 253 homes licensed for 25 beds or more.

Both hold, because a house holds a household and a building holds a crowd. The median licensed capacity across the whole county was 6. The largest single license in the file was 574. So the county is mostly houses if you are counting front doors and mostly buildings if you are counting beds, and which of those two facts matters depends entirely on what you are looking for.

Licensed care homes in Los Angeles County by the size of the home, from the California licensing file dated May 25, 2025. Homes and beds are counted separately because they answer different questions: how many places there are to choose between, and how many people the county can hold.
Size of home	Homes the file listed	Licensed beds
Six beds or fewer	1,361	7,979
Seven to 24 beds	34	457
25 beds or more	253	34,954
Every licensed home	1,648	43,390

Counts describe the state file dated May 25, 2025 and not the present day.

Where in the county are they?

Not evenly. The cities carrying the most are below, in order, with the size split for each one.

One thing to know before you read it. The state files a home under the name on its license, so the biggest city in the county is scattered across this table under other names. Northridge, Granada Hills and North Hollywood are neighborhoods of Los Angeles rather than cities, and each one has a row of its own, as do 7 other names below. Add them all back and the City of Los Angeles is bigger than the row that carries its name. Read this as a map of where the addresses are, which is what a family actually needs, and not as a league table of municipalities.

Los Angeles County cities by the number of care homes the California licensing file dated May 25, 2025 listed as licensed, most first, with the count of homes at each end of the size range. City names are the state's own, so several are neighborhoods inside the City of Los Angeles. A city name links to that city's page where we have written one.
City name in the file	Homes the file listed	Six beds or fewer	25 beds or more
Los Angeles licensed care homes directory	143	99	40
Torrance licensed care homes directory	90	82	8
Northridge licensed care homes directory	74	69	5
Granada Hills licensed care homes directory	62	61	1
Lancaster	59	55	4
North Hollywood licensed care homes directory	52	50	2
Van Nuys licensed care homes directory	51	47	4
Long Beach licensed care homes directory	50	38	11
Palmdale	39	38	1
Reseda	36	33	3
Woodland Hills licensed care homes directory	34	28	6
Rancho Palos Verdes	33	30	3
West Hills	33	29	4
Pasadena licensed care homes directory	32	17	14
Claremont	31	24	7
Glendale licensed care homes directory	30	21	9
North Hills	30	30	0
Carson licensed care homes directory	28	27	1
Valencia	28	26	2
Burbank licensed care homes directory	27	21	5
Chatsworth licensed care homes directory	25	24	1
Glendora	22	20	2
Cerritos	21	20	1
Whittier	21	12	6
Tarzana	20	16	4

The 25 names carrying the most, out of 119 in the file. Where a count is shared, every city holding it is shown rather than cut off partway through.

The other 94 names in the file are not on that table, and between them they held 577 homes. That tail is worth more than it looks. The city with the longest column is not the answer for most families. Being a short drive from whoever will actually turn up on a Tuesday usually matters more than having the widest choice, and the file lists homes under plenty of names nobody would think to search.

Which city do you need?

We have written up 17 of these cities so far, one page each. Every page carries the homes the state listed in that city, what the file said about how big they are, which ZIP codes they sit in, and a license number you can take straight to the state's own search. Start with your city if it is here.

Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in BurbankThe 27 homes the state listed as licensed in Burbank, 21 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 4 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in CarsonThe 28 homes the state listed as licensed in Carson, 27 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 23 of them in ZIP code 90745.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in ChatsworthThe 25 homes the state listed as licensed in Chatsworth, 24 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 25 of them in ZIP code 91311.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Glendale, CaliforniaThe 30 homes the state listed as licensed in Glendale, California, 21 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 9 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Granada HillsThe 62 homes the state listed as licensed in Granada Hills, 61 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, and 62 of them in ZIP code 91344.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Long BeachThe 50 homes the state listed as licensed in Long Beach, 38 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 88 percent of the 2,127 licensed beds in the 11 homes recorded at 25 beds or more.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Los AngelesThe 143 homes the state filed under the city name Los Angeles, 99 of them recorded at six beds or fewer and 40 at 25 beds or more, across 39 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in North HollywoodThe 52 homes the state listed as licensed in North Hollywood, 50 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 34 of them in ZIP code 91605.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in NorthridgeThe 74 homes the state listed as licensed in Northridge, 69 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, on residential streets across 4 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in PasadenaThe 32 homes the state listed as licensed in Pasadena, including 17 recorded at six beds or fewer and 14 at 25 beds or more.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in San PedroThe 9 homes the state listed as licensed in San Pedro, 7 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 2 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Santa ClaritaThe 18 homes the state listed as licensed under the name Santa Clarita, spread across 6 ZIP codes, plus the valley supply the same file recorded under its older neighborhood names.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Santa MonicaThe 15 homes the state listed as licensed in Santa Monica, where 6 homes recorded at 25 beds or more hold 93 percent of the 696 licensed beds.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Sherman OaksThe 19 homes the state listed as licensed in Sherman Oaks, 17 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 4 ZIP codes.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in TorranceThe 90 homes the state listed as licensed in Torrance, 82 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, across 5 ZIP codes of the South Bay grid.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Van NuysThe 51 homes the state listed as licensed in Van Nuys, 47 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, with 26 of them in ZIP code 91405.
Care Homes the State Listed as Licensed in Woodland HillsThe 34 homes the state listed as licensed in Woodland Hills, 28 of them recorded at six beds or fewer, where 89 percent of the 1,554 licensed beds sit in the 6 homes recorded at 25 beds or more.

If the city you need is not on that list yet, call anyway. The file covers the whole county and so do we, and there is no version of this where you are told to come back when the page exists.

How old is this, and how much does that matter?

It matters, and here is exactly how much. The file is dated May 25, 2025. We last checked the state's portal for a newer one on September 2, 2026, and this was still the most recent it had published. So every count on this page describes what the state recorded on that date, not what is true this morning. In between, licenses lapse, homes change hands, a suspension lands, a new house opens.

The register has a long memory and a fast turnover at the same time. The oldest first license date in it was July 1971. The newest was issued 3 days before the file was cut.

It is the turnover that catches families out. 1,148 of the 1,648 homes were first licensed within ten years of the file's own date, so from May 2015 onward. 763 of them inside five, from May 2020.

So do not take a count, ours or anybody else's, as the last word on a particular house. Get the license number off the home in front of you and look that number up yourself. It takes a minute, and the state's record is the one that is current.

Where do I check a home for myself?

Anything here you would act on, take to the state first. The lookup is the CCLD Care Facility Search, run by Community Care Licensing, and search by license number rather than by name if the home gave you one. Names in this business are unreliable and homes get renamed, and a number settles in a single step what a name will argue about all afternoon. The CDSS facility search page explains what you are looking at, and CDSS resources for residents and families is where the complaint process and the Long-Term Care Ombudsman program sit.

One boundary worth carrying with you. Community Care Licensing, part of the California Department of Social Services, licenses the homes counted on this page. It does not license skilled nursing. A nursing home is licensed by the California Department of Public Health and its record lives in a separate lookup called Cal Health Find. If you are weighing a nursing home against a board and care home, you are reading two different regulators, so do not expect the two records to look alike.

CDSS facility search, California Department of Social Services
CCLD Care Facility Search, California Department of Social Services, Community Care Licensing Division
CDSS resources for residents and families, California Department of Social Services
Cal Health Find, California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Care Quality

How is Senior Placement Agency LA paid?

This page counts the whole register. We do not work with the whole register, and those are two different things. Families pay us nothing, and a community pays us a referral fee when someone we introduced moves in, so you are entitled to know where our list narrows before you take a recommendation from us.

So hold us to it, on your own shortlist rather than in the abstract. Ask which of the homes you are considering we have an agreement with and which we do not. Ask what we think is wrong with the ones we like. An advisor who cannot answer that second question straight is not being much use to you.

Where these counts come from

State record date: May 25, 2025. This is the date inside the state file.
Checked against the state portal: September 2, 2026. This is when we last looked for a newer file.

Source: Community Care Licensing Division, California Department of Social Services. "Community Care Licensing Facilities," California Health and Human Services Open Data Portal, https://data.chhs.ca.gov/dataset/ccl-facilities. Residential Care Facilities for the Elderly resource published May 27, 2025, containing records dated May 25, 2025. Retrieved September 2, 2026. This listing has been filtered and reformatted from the state file and is not official government data. Senior Placement Agency LA is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or acting for the State of California or the Department of Social Services.

If you run one of these homes and something here is wrong, call us at (323) 675-2991 and we will correct it or take the entry down within five business days.

Tell us the part the table cannot

A register tells you how many and where. It cannot tell you which of them will take a two person transfer, which has someone awake at three in the morning, or which has a room this month. That is a conversation, and it costs families nothing. Call, or send the form and we will call you back.

Call (323) 675-2991

Questions families ask us

How many licensed care homes are there in Los Angeles County?: The California licensing file dated May 25, 2025 listed 1,648 residential care facilities for the elderly as licensed in Los Angeles County, across 119 city and neighborhood names, with 43,390 licensed beds between them. That is what the state recorded on that date rather than what is open today. Licenses lapse, change hands and get suspended, and new homes open, so treat the figure as the size of the market and check any individual home against the state's live record.
Are most of these places big communities or small houses?: Houses, by a long way, if you count front doors. The median licensed capacity across the whole county was 6, so the middle of this market is a six bed house. Count beds instead and it inverts: 81 percent of the county's 43,390 licensed beds sat in the 253 homes licensed for 25 beds or more. Both are true at once.
Why can I not find the small homes online?: Because almost none of them market. A six bed home has no marketing budget, often no website, sometimes not even a sign, and it fills by word of mouth and by referral. The buildings advertise, so a search that starts on Google returns the buildings and gives no hint that the rest of the register exists. That gap is not a quality signal in either direction. It is a difference in business model.
Does a home on this page have a room available?: There is no way to tell from the licensing record, because it holds capacity and not vacancy. Licensed capacity is the most residents the building is allowed to hold, which is a ceiling rather than an opening. A home licensed for six with six residents in it is full and still appears exactly the same way in the file. Availability is a phone call, and it changes week to week.
Is this the state's official list?: No. It is the state's file, filtered to Los Angeles County and to records the file marked as licensed, then counted. It is dated, it is not government data, and we are not affiliated with the State of California or the Department of Social Services. The official record is the state's own facility search, which is live and which you should treat as the authority whenever it disagrees with anything here.
Do the homes on these pages pay you?: Families pay us nothing. A community pays us a referral fee when a family we introduced moves in. What we will not do is put a figure in a paragraph for how much of this register we hold agreements with, because that is a question to ask about the specific homes in front of you rather than about a county. Ask us about your shortlist and we will answer it home by home.

Residential care homes in Los Angeles County, city by city